After School Club Assistant

St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 3QU

69 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,432.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Annual Salary £5509.69

After School Club Assistant job summary

St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School are seeking a friendly, enthusiastic, and responsible individual to join our team as a After School Club Assistant. In this rewarding role, you will support the day-to-day running of our wrap around care provision, helping to create a safe, fun, and engaging environment for children. You will work closely with colleagues to provide high-quality care, supervise children, and support a range of stimulating activities that promote children's wellbeing and development.

This post is for 9 hours, 3 days per week (days can be discussed at interview) term time only (38 weeks).

Key Responsibilities

• Support the smooth day-to-day operation of the wrap around care provision.
• Provide direct supervision and care for children aged 4 to 11.
• Assist in planning, organising, and delivering a variety of enjoyable and age-appropriate activities.
• Promote the safety, welfare, and safeguarding of all children at all times.
• Build positive relationships with children, encouraging inclusion, independence, and positive behaviour.
• Communicate professionally and effectively with parents, carers, and school staff.
• Maintain accurate records in line with school procedures and safeguarding policies.
• Assist with the preparation and serving of healthy snacks, ensuring dietary requirements are met.
• Help maintain a welcoming, positive, clean, and well-organised environment.
• Support colleagues in ensuring the provision operates effectively and meets the needs of all children attending.

What We're Looking For

• Experience working with children in a school, childcare, or similar setting (preferred).
• A caring, patient, and positive attitude.
• Good communication and organisational skills.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• A reliable and flexible approach to work.
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to make a positive difference to children's experiences before and after the school day, helping to create an enjoyable and supportive environment where they can thrive.

We warmly encourage visits to the school. To arrange a tour or an informal conversation, please contact the school office.

St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to follow the relevant safeguarding procedures, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) guidance, and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 382 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-georges-cofe-aided-primary-school

Welcome to St. George’s Church of England Primary School. As a Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School, we lead the community by following the teachings of Christ through holistically ensuring excellence for all. Through our happy, secure and stimulating environment all members of the school community grow in self-esteem and potential. Their spiritual, academic and social needs are celebrated as part of daily life.

We are a successful school with a strong Christian ethos set in the delightful Minster area with close links to Minster Abbey our local church.

The staff and governors of the school are committed to providing all pupils with a secure and caring environment in which they develop lively and enquiring minds, confidence and skills. Our record of accomplishment is exemplified in consistently good attainment for our children. The staff and governors of the school aim to provide the children with an education that is broadly based and tailored to meet the children’s individual needs. We provide a caring and happy positive atmosphere in which a child may fulfil his/her potential and grow in self-confidence and respect for the people and environment around them.

We are committed to the ideal of a partnership in education between home and school and, to this end, prospective parents are invited to visit the school and meet the staff and children. Home learning actively celebrates this partnership during celebration events.

We take every opportunity to celebrate our School with photos and pictures in the local press and our own social media pages. You can follow us on our page on Facebook. Please check our website for regular updates.

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