Based: Calderstones Mansion House
Salary: £8 per hour
Reporting to: Storybarn Developer
Hours: minimum of 16 hours a week
Duration: 12 months

Story Sharers will lead exciting interactive shared reading sessions with groups of children and their parents, and, through imaginative and enthusiastic delivery, will bring the interactive space in the Storybarn to life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Inspiring young people to love reading and to feel confident and relaxed in the company of books
• Being a lively, engaging, enthusiastic presence in the Storybarn, to encourage children to engage as fully as possible with the experience
• Delivering exciting interactive shared reading sessions
• Creating an exciting, stimulating environment in the Storybarn, to encourage children to make meaningful connections with books. This may involve using props such as puppets, musical instruments and other items to stimulate creative play
• Delivering curriculum-based workshops for school groups in the Storybarn
• Maintaining excellent customer service by providing a safe, friendly and vibrant environment for all visitors
• Carrying out evaluations of the activity and story sessions, and collating feedback from visitors
• Upholding strict safeguarding policies.

Person Specification:

Essential:

• Excellent at reading aloud
• Able to demonstrate why literature is important to you
• Experience of working/volunteering with children
• Confident in dealing with the sometimes challenging behaviours of children
• An understanding of the problems of engaging reluctant readers who think books are not for them
• Shares our beliefs and values
• A flexible, playful and caring approach to working with children
• Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised
• A genuine willingness to work wholeheartedly as part of a lively team, to help the Storybarn project evolve and develop in the most positive and exciting ways
• Willing to contribute towards future planning of Storybarn events and activities
• Able to engage with parents, carers and teachers in a relaxed, open and non-judgemental manner
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Training and supervision in shared reading and Safeguarding practice will be provided.

You must be willing to undertake a DBS check

For more information and to apply