Hours: 8 hours per week
(The session timings are TBC. These will take place during school hours 9-3.30pm).
Applicants must be available during this time and on the following days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
(Hours include delivery and office planning time).
Contract: Fixed Term, 4 months September - December 2025
Salary: £12.88 per hour.
Based: North Ayrshire Specifically Irvine, Stevenson, Saltcoats, Ardrossan and Kilwinning
Closing date: Sunday 17 August 11.59pm.
Scottish Sports Futures- Transforming young lives through sport.
SSF is a charity that works across Scotland, focusing on creating a world in which every young person fulfils their potential.
We use sport as a catalyst to enable young people to be healthier, more confident, and more resilient, so they are better prepared to combat the effects of poverty, trauma and adversity.
You can find out more about SSF at: ssf.org.uk
The Role
The SSF Active Play Practitioner will work with our SSF North Ayrshire team to provide a high quality evidence-based programme which effectively supports young people’s physical literacy, fundamental movement skills and encourages young people to become more physically active.
The Active Play programme is delivered in Primary schools across North Ayrshire to support children’s emotional, social and cognitive development through the provision of outdoor active play sessions. This programme develops children’s fundamental movement skills as well as their physical literacy by building their confidence and motivation through play and being more physically active. Schools participating the Active Play programme receive 15 weeks of Active Play provision.
Our upcoming Active Play block will include working with young people with additional support needs. Applicants should have knowledge, skills and experiences supporting young people with ASN and experience of adapting sessions to be inclusive.
Main duties include:
- Support the delivery of SSF’s Active Play programme for North Ayrshire, supporting young people in a primary school (ASN) based setting to become more physically active.
- To design and deliver engaging sessions aimed at developing young people’s physical literacy and fundamental movement skills within a fun play-based environment.
- To establish, build and maintain positive relationships with young people
- To motivate, encourage and support young people to participate in all sessions.
- To complete weekly registers and session evaluations and submit online to line manager.
- To support with monitoring the progress and outcomes of the programme and activities, collecting feedback from participants and stakeholders, and evaluating the effectiveness of the programme to make necessary adjustments for improvement.
- To support schools and teaching staff to implement Active Play principles within their own settings.
- Support schools and teaching staff to implement a sustainable approach and a legacy to the Active Play work in their settings.
- To comply with all SSF policies and procedures, including health and safety and child safeguarding procedures, ensuring all services are delivered safely, with dignity and in compliance with appropriate procedures to safeguard children and vulnerable adults
How to Apply
A full job pack with details of how to apply can be downloaded from the Vacancies page of our website at: Vacancies - Scottish Sports Futures (ssf.org.uk)
The closing date for applications is Sunday 17 August 11.59pm.
We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, nationality (including citizenship), disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity status, or socio-economic background.
We particularly welcome applicants with one of more of these protected characteristics, as we are currently underrepresented within our staff team. We also particularly welcome applications from those with lived experience of the challenges faced by the young people, families, and communities we serve.