After school Club Playworker

Discovery Academy, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 3LE

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  18 June 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 9pm

• Date listed

  18 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £4,420 - £4,490

After school Club Playworker job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a After School Club at Discovery Academy, Porlock Avenue, Hattersley. SK14 3LE.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

To start: 1st September 2025

After School Club Full-time Salary £24,790 - £25,183

This is a permanent, part-time role, 7.5 hours per week, Term Time Only with an actual salary of £4,420 - £4,490 (TMBC Grade C, Points 5-6)

The role will be for 1.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday 3:00pm – 4:30pm

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our Academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Playworkers assist pupils during their time in After School Club working as part of a team, including supervising welfare, behaviour and safety, ensuring a clean and tidy environment, controlling pupil behaviour in line with the Academy’s behaviour policy, dealing with any misbehaviour and liaising with the teaching staff accordingly.

You will also be responsible for attending to pupils who may be sick or injured and raise any concerns in terms of welfare and safety to the Principal. It also includes the following:

• To ensure that the After School club is controlled and pupils are managed in terms of behaviour and safety.

• To look after the welfare of the pupils in connection with hygiene, table manners, general behaviour and assist any children with eating difficulties.

• Maintain a safe and hygienic environment.

• Deal with hazards to prevent accidents.

• Supervise the safety of children at all times.

• Make senior leaders aware of any issues or accidents to ensure that the children are managed in a safe environment at all times.

• Supervise the children at play and organise games for children.

• Administer First Aid if necessary (training provided)

• Attend any training, which the Principal may consider appropriate to the role.

• Carry out any other duties as deemed appropriate by the Principal relating to the supervision of  children.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

•Applications close at 09:00 on Friday 11th July 2025 although the Trust reserve the right to close the process early if suitable candidates are identified through our selection process

• Interviews will take place on Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Please note we may close the advert as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so if you are interested in applying, please do so as soon as you are able.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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About Discovery Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 225 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/discovery-academy-hyde

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