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Come and join us!

We are pleased to announce that we have the following vacancies to join our enthusuastic and committed team. Please contact us if you would like further information about any of these posts.

Play Services Co-ordinator

Salary: Starting Rate £10.00 per hour

Up to 30 hours per week

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Play Services Co-ordinator to manage SAFSS’ Out-of-School Club service, Youth groups and holiday playschemes.

The Co-ordinator will manage an established team of Playworkers who provide sessions term time and in the school holidays.  The Co-ordinator will undertake regular monitoring of sessions, finances and regular staff supervisions to ensure an overall smooth running of the service.

Registered with Ofsted, the Club works to the ECM and EDCM outcomes, the Principles in Play and the Early Years Foundation Stage. SAFSS Out-of-School was also recently awarded the Me2 award for inclusion and is working towards the Quality in Play kite mark. Applicants must have NNEB qualification or NVQ3 in Child Care and Management or equivalent. Applicants must have a good standard of spoken and written English and numeracy. Experience of working with children with disabilities is an advantage. 

Applicants please note that the hours of work are Tuesday and Thursday between 9.00-6.00pm and Saturdays 9.30-4.00pm. Any remaining hours will be undertaken during normal office hours (9.00-5.00pm). During the school holidays all sessions will be held Monday to Friday daytime.           Closing date: 16/5/11 Interview: 20/5/11

Adult Services Support Officer

Salary: £8.50 per hour

Up to 15 hours per week 

We are looking for an Adult Services Support Officer to work closely with the Adult Service Co-ordinator to plan, lead and deliver individual and group sessions for adults with disabilities. The post will focus on consulting with the people who use our services encouraging choice, participation and promoting community integration.

The post will also focus on ensuring that all adult services are CQC compliant, are working to the personalisation agenda and health and safety law.

Applicants must have at least 2 years experience of working with people with learning and physical disabilities, their carers and parents.  Applicants must also have a minimum of a GNVQ in Health and Social Care or equivalent. The ability to work flexible hours is also essential. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 26/5/11

Domiciliary Care Workers (Part Time)

Salary: Between £6.30 and £8.40 per hour

We are currently looking for care workers who will provide domiciliary care for children with disabilities within the home environment. Applicants must work in line with CQC standards and must have experience in care and be qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 2 in care, or have a commitment to undertake relevant qualifications and training. Suitable applicants would be required to work in the daytime and early mornings, evenings and weekends and during school holidays between 6am to 10pm. (possible night sits)

All vacancies require applicants to be able to communicate in at least one of the main South Asian languages spoken in Sandwell and neighbouring boroughs. We particularly welcome applications from individuals who can speak Bengali and male care workers. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 2/6/11

Minibus Driver (Part Time)

Salary: £7.61 per hour

We are currently looking for a minibus driver who will transport children and adults with disabilities within the Sandwell and Birmingham area. Applicants must be aged over 25 years and hold a clean driving licence. Applicants must also have 12 months driving experience with a category D1 licence.

Duties include the general fuelling and maintenance of the vehicle. The hours of work are flexible and will include afternoons, evenings and weekends. All applicants will be required to take a driving assessment and the ability to speak a South Asian language is an advantage, but not essential. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 26/5/11

Male Playworker (Part Time)

Salary: £7.36 per hour

We are looking for qualified and experienced play workers to work with and create play opportunities for children with disabilities at our Out of School Club.

Applicants must work to OFSTED and EYFS standards and work to the ECM outcomes and the Principles in Play. Applicants must have experience in working within a children’s play services and be qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 2 in play work. Suitable applicants would be required to work in the evenings (3-6pm) and Saturdays (11am-4pm). Sessions during the school holidays are 10am– 2pm during weekdays.

Communicating in at least one of the main South Asian languages spoken in Sandwell is desirable. We particularly welcome applications from male play workers. Closing Date: 16/5/11 Interview: 31/05/11

At SAFSS we take the safeguarding of children and adults seriously and all staff will be subject to an enhanced CRB clearance, checks and references. 

For information and an application form for all of the above posts please contact Kam or Amar on

(0121) 558 2198 

SAFSS, Fenton St, Smethwick, West Midlands B66 1HR

Registered Charity: 1098917

Race Relations Act: 1979 Section 5 (2) (d)                    

Sex Discrimination Act: 1976 Section 7.22

 

Winter Celebration Raffle

A big thank you to everyone who supoprted our Winter Celebration Raffle. We managed to raise over £50 towards the cost of our Winter Celebration Party. The raffle was drawn on Monday 20th December by Claire Bradshaw and Amar Hussain and the winning tickets are as follows:

Argos Vouchers – 304
Next Vouchers – 139
Cinema tickets – 296
Hamper – 165
Costa Coffee Goodie Bag – 136
Tin of Celebrations – 245
Green Goodie Bag – 148
Pink Goodie Bag – 241
Thorntons Chocolates – 251
Beauty Gift Set – 166
M&S Chocolates – 185

Thank you to everyone who donated prizes and bought tickets. If you havea winning ticket please contact Claire or Geeta on (0121) 558 2198 to collect your prize!

There’s snow stopping SAFSS!


Snow outside our premises in Fenton St, Smethwick on 18 December 2010.

Winter conditions did not stop the SAFSS Winter Celebration Party on Saturday 18th December. The event, supported by Irwin Mitchell, went ahead despite the terrible snow. Food, dancing and fun was had by all and our thanks to Irwin Mitchell and all our staff and volunteers who helped the event.

Me2 Award!

Above Centre: Neelam Pallen (Manager) and Sayma Akhtar (Out of School Club Co-ordinator) from SAFSS receiving the ME2 award.

Congratulations to all our staff at our “Smiling Stars Out-of-School Club” who were awarded the Me2 quality kite mark in November. The award recognises, celebrates and promotes inclusive play in childcare and play settings for children and young people with disabilities. The award was set up by Mencap and organisations are audited by a young people’s panel of children and young people with disabilities.

Our feedback from the Young People’s Panel was “Smiling Stars should get the award because the building is accessible, the staff are sensible and talk to children in different languages because they are from different cultures and they do Makaton to let the children understand what they are saying to them.”

For more information about ME2: http://www.mencap.org.uk/page.asp?id=14940

Presenting our new Television!

Thanks to the law firm Irwin Mitchell, SAFSS Out-of-School are the proud owners of a brand new HUGE flat screen television!

Mandy Luckman from Irwin Mitchell LLP presents the new television to Neelam Pallen (Manager) and Rajvinder Shoker (Chair of the Board of Directors) from SAFSS.

Irwin Mitchell have been supporting SAFSS for a number of years and heard of the demise of our old television.

“The charity plays an invaluable role in supporting parents, carers and guardians in addition to the person who as a disability” says Rajbir Somel of Irwin Mitchell’s International Travel Litigation Group (ITLG), who has recently joined SAFSS Board of Directors. “We hope the television will go someway towards enhancing the lives of those for whom SAFSS cares.”

Photographs taken by and included with permission from Paul Thomas Photographic Limited www.ptpimages.co.uk

Daytrip to Blackpool

This year SAFSS annual day trip will be to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Thursday 29th July 2010. All SAFSS families and staff are invited to attend.

Any child or adult who uses our services can attend the daytrip free of charge and can also bring a main carer who is free of charge. For any additional seats SAFSS are charging a flat rate of £7.00.

For further information and a booking form please contact Kam or Amar on (0121) 558 2198

SAFSS awarded PQASSO Level 3

SAFSS have been awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at Level 3. The PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations) Quality Mark, highlights SAFSS’ commitment to efficiency, effectiveness and quality. The Mark was set up by the Charities Evaluation Service (CES) and enables the voluntary and community sector to assess performance.

Mark Davis (SCVO), Neelam Pallen (SAFSS) and Carole Harte (SCVO)

For more information about PQASSO visit: http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=329

Come and meet us!

SAFSS will be at the Compass Jobs Fair, today, Monday 8th March 2010 at the ICC, Birmingham. Come and meet our staff at stand 14 and find out about the range of care vacancies that we have.

We are particularly interested in meeting individuals who are interested in working in domiciliary care (in both Birmingham and Sandwell) and Playworkers.

We look forward to meeting you!

Praise for Therapeutic Massage Training

During December more of SAFSS Domiciliary Care Workers were trained in Therapeutic Massage by Una Peplow, Senior Physiotherapist from Sandwell PCT.

Una was impressed with our staff, so much so that she gave our Co-ordinators the following feedback “I would like to say the attitude and approach to training taken by your staff at my talk on Wednesday was inspiring. They showed interest throughout, were respectful, asked sensible questions and offered thanks at the end of the session. I will (sic) all my talks were accepted with this exemplary behaviour. Offer my thanks to all concerned.”

Our Care Workers will continue to work closely with Physiotherapists to support South Asian children and young people with disabilities in the home environment.

For more information about our domiciliary care service please contact Hardeep Sandhu on (0121) 558 21498 childrens.safss@btconnect.com

SAFSS on Children in Need night!

SAFSS were one of the local charities featured on the BBC Children in Need fundraising night on BBC1. Chief Executive Parpinder K Dhatt was interviewed by Adil Ray from BBC Asian Network following a piece about SAFSS and the with children we work with in our After School Club.

Poppy and Claire also met Pudsey Bear! Pictures to follow!

For more information about our After School Club Monday Group please contact Sayma on (0121) 558 2198.

Big thanks to Raj Andev and his friends for the photo.

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