Here you’ll learn about the role and responsibilities of a Playgroup Leader. If you do not have responsibility for a child in the group, you are considered a formal volunteer and have certain obligations under Playgroup Tasmania’s policies.
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As a Playgroup Leader, your role is to support your playgroup and the families who attend to enjoy a positive and welcoming experience.
Tasks that help with this include:
- demonstrating your commitment to child safety and wellbeing by following Playgroup Tasmania’s policies and procedures
- opening and closing the venue and setting up/cleaning up playgroup activities
- creating a welcoming, inclusive, age appropriate and safe environment for babies, children, and their caregivers
- engaging with children and adults in the playgroup to encourage connections peer to peer and parent to child
- connecting parents and caregivers to each other and providing information about relevant programs and services in the community
- role modelling positive adult/child interaction
- encouraging playgroup participants to engage in the play experiences
- promoting and maintaining contact with playgroup families between sessions.
If you are a formal volunteer, you will work closely with Playgroup Tasmania staff to support administrative tasks including:
- making sure families are aware of the Playgroup Tasmania Statement of Commitment to Child Safety and Wellbeing
- keeping and sharing playgroup attendance records
- doing risk assessments of activities and the playgroup venue
- completing incident forms as needed
- raising issues of concern with Playgroup Tasmania as quickly as possible.