After School Club Manager
St George's Junior School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY3 8LU18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
8 November 2024
Closing date
6 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
18 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 15 hours per week – Term time only Monday to Friday 15:00-18:00 (Children to have been collected by 18:00)
Contract type
- Fixed term - 9 months
Pay scale
- Grade 6 at £12.59/hour
Hourly rate
- £12.59
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main duties include:
- Ensuring correct staff-pupil ratios for each session-breakfast and after school.
- Planning, preparing and delivering quality play opportunities within a safe and caring environment.
- Providing comprehensive care for the children including collection to and from WFI/SGJ
- Ordering provisions weekly in order to provide refreshments and ensuring that hygiene, health and safety standards are met.
- Administering first aid when necessary.
- Setting up the play space including moving furniture and play equipment/resources.
- Consulting with children and involving them in planning activities.
- Providing support and supervision to Chillzone assistants and other staff, including volunteers.
- Communicating and liaising with both headteachers & administration staff re; registers, issues/concerns, H&S
- Administration and record keeping, including staff and child records, (financial records completed by administration team), ordering and purchasing, and working within an agreed budget.
- Developing and maintaining good communication with all members of the club, with schools, and especially with parents.
- Undertaking appropriate and relevant training.
- Monitoring and maintaining a healthy, safe and secure working environment.
- Working within the framework of the club’s policies and procedures, and the Early Years Foundation Stage.
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Person specification
Essential qualities
- Experience of working with 4 to 11 year olds
- Experience of administration/record keeping
- Experience of working in a supervisory or management capacity
- Delivering equal opportunities in a play setting
- Understanding the varied needs of children and families
- Providing and facilitating safe, stimulating play
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills together with sufficient understanding and use of English to ensure the well-being of the children*
- Ability to work on own initiative, using judgement and common sense
- Familiarity with the Early Years Foundation Stage
Desirable qualities
- Appropriate Level 3 qualification
- Appropriate child protection training
- At least 2 years’ experience of working in a childcare/education setting
- Experience of working within a play-based setting
- Ability to use IT based resources to support play and club communications
- Current 12-hour Paediatric First Aid Certificate
- Food Hygiene Certificate
What the school offers its staff
Working for Empower Trust is rewarding in lots of ways. We value and appreciate our people and recognise our staff are instrumental to the success of the Trust. We therefore offer a wide range of exciting and useful benefits to all our employees:
Career Progression and Staff Development
We are committed to developing our staff and to providing opportunities for growth. We want to encourage the career progression of our employees wherever possible, and support staff who wish to move between our schools and the Central Team when suitable roles arise. We also offer secondment opportunities when available.
At Empower Trust you would be working alongside excellent leaders in education, each with specific areas of expertise. We offer Middle and Senior Leadership development programmes, professional support networks and career development pathways for staff at all levels. In addition, we also have mentoring and coaching programmes, peer learning, internal and external CPD opportunities.
Health and Wellbeing Services
Working in education is a challenging job and the health and wellbeing of our staff is high on our agenda and a key priority. We have several Trust wide wellbeing initiatives that offer support and guidance for our workforce:
- A Trust Wellbeing Strategy and Charter outlining our commitment to staff wellbeing
- At least one trained Mental Health First Aider in every location, helping to embed our belief that physical and mental health hold equal importance
- A network of Mental Health First Aiders and Mental Health Leads who provide support, guidance, and signposting to colleagues across the Trust
- A Future in Mind network representing all our academies, who signpost staff to wellbeing support and information, and ensure staff voice is heard
- A designated Trustee sponsor whose role is to ensure staff wellbeing remains a priority
- Wellbeing is a discussion item on each Trustee / Local Governing Body meeting agenda
- Dissemination of annual staff wellbeing questionnaires to inform future actions
- Active engagement in national and international awareness days
- Working towards the Mental Health at Work Commitment and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter
Employee Assistance Programme
We are committed to ensuring everyone at Empower Trust gets access to the support they need for personal issues as well as any work-related worries. Our completely confidential Employee Assistance Programme offers numerous services:
- Cancer & Chronic Illness Support
- Counselling & Mindfulness
- Financial Wellbeing
- Food Sensitivity Testing
- GP Helpline & Integrated GP Service
- Happier, Healthier You
- Leadership Support, Clinic & Supervision
- Mastering Mindfulness
- Menopause Support
- Mindfulness & Relaxation
- Nurse Support
- Physiotherapy Support Services
- Private Medical Operations
- Staff Wellbeing
- Weight management
- Wellbeing for Everyone
- Whole School & Leadership Support
Flexible and Family-Friendly Policies
Our employment policies are flexible and responsive to promote diversity and equality, as well as attract and retain the highest quality workforce. We offer flexible working opportunities; job share arrangements, term time working and part time-roles; generous family leave packages; and compassionate or emergency leave.
Pension Scheme
We offer an excellent pension scheme with either the Local Government Pension Scheme (support staff) or the Teachers’ Pension Scheme which include death in service benefits. As well as employee’s paying contributions into the scheme (banded, based on earnings level) Empower Trust also pays a generous contribution on your behalf.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Save on the cost of the commute, promote a healthy lifestyle, and reduce your carbon footprint - all with our superb cycle to work scheme! Find the bike of your dreams and save up to 42% in tax and NI contributions. Whether it’s a mountain bike, BMX, fixie, electric cycle, or one of those natty bikes with a basket on the front, get the wheels you really want; all at an affordable cost spread over 12 to 18 months.
Other Benefits
- Eye care scheme
- Attractive annual leave allowance
- Free on-site parking
- In-house catering
- Financial wellbeing support
- Discounts for teachers – https://www.discountsforteachers.co.uk/
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to sharon.pacini@stgeorges.empowermat.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About St George's Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 358 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St George's Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sharon.pacini@stgeorges.empowermat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01743 357133
Age 7-11 Junior School
Years 3 - 7
Maximum 360 pupils on roll
12 classes
Arranging a visit to St George's Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sharon.pacini@stgeorges.empowermat.co.uk.
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