After School Club Manager

St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Ferryhill, County Durham, DL17 9AL

13 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 February 2025

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £28,624.00 - £30,060.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Grade H, Spinal Point 14 to 17. 15 hours per week (3.00pm - 6.00pm), Monday to Friday, term time only.

After School Club Manager job summary

One Excellence Multi Academy Trust is a Multi Academy Trust made up of four schools. The Trust was founded in July 2017, and is a mixed Multi Academy Trust. The vision and rationale behind the wider partnership are based on shared values and aspirations, a strong sense of community identity and values of inclusion and aspiration for all.

One Excellence Multi Academy Trust believes in supporting and investing in its staff and has a structured health and well-being programme. The programme includes physiotherapy, nurse support service and drop-in clinic, counselling, mindfulness sessions, weight management, stress awareness, GP consultations and private medical operations if required. We are also keen for staff to be able to reach their full potential and offer a range of professional development opportunities in all areas of education, nurturing and leadership.

St. Michael’s Church of England Primary School are seeking to appoint an After School Club Manager. T his is a new venture for the school and will allow the right candidate to make sure that the provision is a success for the school and our families.

As the After School Club Manager within our school, you will have the opportunity to lead a range of activities, including role play and arts and crafts. Your day-to-day role will be ever-changing, exciting and full of laughter and your focus will be enjoying these activities and supporting children to engage and develop.

You will help create a safe, fun and fulfilling home from home environment for the children, asking how their school day was, playing games and eating a snack before they go home.

Qualifications and Experience :

Hold a level 3 qualification as a Teaching Assistant or in Childcare/ Early Years
Management experience desirable
Experience within a school environment
A willingness to undertake relevant training in the future
A passion for childcare and a genuine interest in child development

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

As a manager, you will ensure every individual child’s needs are met, including supporting parents with any SEND needs and your staff team
Be a key player to ensure the setting receives excellent outcomes in internal audits and those of external authorities such as Ofsted, Environmental health etc.
Ensure we encourage and praise children’s development and achievements
Ensuring that the supervision of the children from your team is outstanding
Delivering and assisting the After School Club team with leading the timetabled activities that you’ve created together to a group of children from 5 to 11 years old.
Coordinating staff to ensure staff to child ratios are always followed
To manage the administration for the After School Club
To manage the sign in and sign out process with parents and children
To manage child behaviour in line with the school’s Behaviour Policy
To manage and organise the team effectively
To manage bookings and maximise places at the club with the administration team
Follow all school policies – you need to know them, understand them and implement them
Recording and reporting any safeguarding concerns to the Headteacher and following the safeguarding procedures ad practices

Disclosure: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We want to develop a more diverse workforce and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Applicants with disabilities will be invited for interview if the essential job criteria are met. Where our roles are customer facing and you are required to speak to members of the public, the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

Posts are subject to a satisfactory DBS, reference checks and social media checks and are not open to anyone on the DBS Barred List.

If you think this post is for you, please contact Beth Dawson, Headteacher, for an informal discussion and/or to visit our school on (01740) 651482.

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.