After School Club Assistant
Springwood Junior Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S26 2AL21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £7,056.00 Annually (Actual) Band B point 3 - based on a full-time salary of £24,027
After School Club Assistant job summary
Aston Community Education Trust (ACET) are a forward thinking and ambitious multi-academy trust, comprising of three secondary academies and nine junior academies across the Rotherham, Sheffield and north Derbyshire areas.
An opportunity has arisen in our after-school club for an enthusiastic and passionate individual who is committed to and enjoys working with children. The after-school club provides an out of hours facility for pupils across all key stages immediately after the end of the school day.
Working 12.5 hours per week - 3.15pm – 5:45pm Monday to Friday – term time. Term time includes working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed, with availability to work any or all of the remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise.
Duties will include, working alongside colleagues to:
- Assist in preparing after-school club facilities and activities to ensure quality standards agreed are met.
- Supervise children in collecting food, being seated, clearing away crockery, moving to activities, in activity area and/or outdoor area as appropriate.
- Help to organise reading, play, art activities and homework support.
- Establish good relationships with the pupils, encouraging cooperation and monitoring children’s wellbeing. Providing help and support to the pupils.
- Encourage good behaviour by using praise and reward and actioning poor behaviour in line with the school policy.
- Ensure the health and safety of the pupils – maintaining a register of the children attending, control access to other parts of the school, ensuring children understand action to be taken in case of a fire or emergency. Must have a good understanding of the health and safety policy in order to put it into practise.
- Take pride in providing enjoyable activities for the pupils.
- Considers the needs of pupils when making decisions relating to the after-school club.
You will demonstrate consistently high expectations of the pupils and will work closely within a team of colleagues to ensure the wellbeing of our children.
The role is based at Springwood Junior Academy but may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.
Safeguarding
ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.
It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.
Equality
ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Springwood Junior Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Springwood Junior Academy website (opens in new tab)
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