We’ll always be happy to receive applications and offers from people wanting to be involved in Scouting.
The roles are many and varied, from working directly with the young people in our sections, to helping out with looking after our Scout Hall, to maintaining our website and social media. Whatever time you can spare and whatever skills you have, we can certainly make the most of it and find a rewarding role for you that makes a difference.
If you would like to join our inclusive and diverse team, or just chat about how you might be able to help, please drop us an email to joining@1stpannalscouts.org.uk or message us on Facebook and we can have a chat.
How to join in
If you’ve chatted with us and would like to follow through and join the team then there are a few simple steps we have to go through:
1. Send us a few details so that we can add you onto the Scouts Membership system
2. Follow this ‘Quick start’ guide to signing into the membership system, access your learning and find support.
3. Meet up with one of our team to run through the DBS request – this is an important part of our safety checks but is simple to do.
4. Talk through the role again with one of our team at a Welcome conversation and make sure you know what you’re signing up for.
Training
When you join us there are some training items we need you to do, this is all about making sure our Young People and our Adult volunteers are safe and well looked after. Different roles need different training to be completed and a summary is below.
All of the ‘Getting Started’ training that needs to be done in the first 5 months can be done easily online through the links on this page
The wood badge training mentioned for Leaders and Assistant Leaders can be done as a mix of online, face-to-face and ‘on the job’ training. More information about the wood badge training is laid out here – don’t forget that this is over a three-year period and as such is easily achieved! Many of the modules don’t need ‘classroom’ learning and on-the-job experience can often be validated for sign-off of the learning and capability.
Working through module 2 in the table above is your personal learning plan, meaning you go through the stages at your own pace. Personal learning plan help is on this link
You can see our County training booking system here, it will help you decide what face-to-face courses work for you and when they’re running.
We also have Leaders that have done some specialist training and there are opportunities to get involved with all sorts of activities. We have NSRA qualified Air Rifle instructors, Tomahawk throwing experts, Hill Walking qualifications as well as Climbing, Archery and lots more!
What to Wear?
We provide your Scouting uniform at no cost to you, there’s a district shop where you can pick up what you need and we will reimburse you from the receipt.
Leader Onboarding
Communication is the key to great teamwork
We communicate in a few ways to keep the show on the road and stay GDPR compliant (and we don’t use personal email addresses for Scouting comms):
Google G-suite: – We have access to the full G-Suite range of tools under 1stpannalscouts.org.uk
Email – https://gmail.com
Calendars – https://calendar.google.com
File storage – https://drive.google.com
We use shared drives across teams for planning and sharing information.
Your log in is firstname.lastname@1stpannalscouts.org.uk
You can just go to gmail.com and sign in there – it should all work together 🙂
To communicate with parents and carers we use Online Scout Manager (OSM) through which we:
- Share the programme
- Set up events (with invites)
- Take payments for subs and events
- Send emails
- Record our Risk Assessments
- (and much more)
We make use of email groups in G-Suite, so that we can email:
- SquirrelLeaders@1stpannalscouts
- BeaverLeaders@1stpannalscouts
- CubLeaders@1stpannalscouts
- ScoutLeaders@1stpannalscouts
- ExplorerLeaders@1stpannalscouts
- TrusteeBoard@1stpannalscouts
- (and others)
To get your scouting email on your phone:
- Install the gmail app and go through the set up as if it was a gmail account
- or
Add it to your current mail client. There’s likely to be a wizard that will run you through adding a google account – follow the prompts with your username and passwords and it should *just work* – if not, drop us a line and we’ll help out.
For more informal information and catch ups we have a Leaders whatsapp group per section team and some others, all contained within a whatsapp Community, speak to your section Leader about adding you once you’ve done your welcome tasks!
