After school Club Playworker (Perm)
Wallscourt Farm Academy, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS16 1GE8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 April 2026
Closing date
6 February 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £7,712 – £7,938
After school Club Playworker (Perm) job summary
Job Title: After School Club – Playworker (Perm)
Actual Annual Salary: £7,712 – £7,938 (Based on hours and weeks worked)
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £24,819 - £25,548 (CLF Grade Aii). Based on 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent, Term time only (no inset days)
Hours: 13.75 hours per week
Additional role information: This role will involve working Monday – Friday (2.75hrs - 3.00pm -5.45pm)
An opportunity to support children by helping run a welcoming and fun Afterschool club of Wallscourt Farm Academy:
We are looking for a new After School Playworker to join our supportive and talented team at Wallscourt Farm Academy. This role helps to provide Wrap Around Provision for learners at Wallscourt Farm Academy. If you are caring, responsible, and enthusiastic about creating a safe, engaging, and inclusive environment for children at the end of their school day, we would love to hear from you. This role is ideal for someone who can use their initiative, build positive relationships, and support children's wellbeing through play.
About you:
You will have:
- an understanding of the varied needs of children and families.
- knowledge of basic food hygiene standards.
- the ability to maintain confidentiality over matters relating to the academy, with students, staff and parents.
- the skills to provide and facilitate safe and stimulating play activities.
- capabilities of working within a team environment but also using own initiative.
About Wallscourt Farm Academy:
Wallscourt Farm Academy is two-form entry primary school located in Stoke Gifford, on the outskirts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
At Wallscourt Farm Academy, we foster ambitious young people who are culturally aware and who contribute to society and the lives of others as they become adults themselves. We value tolerance, understanding, mutual respect, unique individuality and celebrate the unity that this makes as we come together as One Learning Community. We foster a multi-faith, socially diverse environment with an emphasis on common values and principles for life. These principles underpin everything that happens within and around the school and bind us as diverse individuals within diverse communities that come together with one shared goal – To contribute positively to our own lives and to the lives of others.
We hold high expectations for our learners and have crafted a curriculum that is progressive, well-sequenced, coherent, and inspiring. We have ambitious aims for the success of our learners and make a commitment to see them flourish and thrive on their journey to reach their full potential.
At Wallscourt Farm Academy, we have a positive, passionate and ambitious staff team. We value the part that each and every staff member plays in achieving this vision. We work hard to make people feel welcome and included and have created our own staff culture tree cookies!
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
Closing Date: 6 February 2026 @11.59pm
Shortlisting Date: 11 February 2026
Interview Date: 25 February 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs, a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Wallscourt Farm Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 404 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wallscourt Farm Academy website
Wallscourt Farm Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). Wallscourt Farm Academy is a diverse learning community situated in Cheswick Village in South Gloucestershire. Wallscourt Farm Academy has created and fostered a multi-faith, socially diverse environment with an emphasis on common values and principles for life. The proportion of learners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds is slightly above national at 40% and 15% of our learners have English as an additional language. We use a ‘Rights, Responsibilities and Respect’ approach to foster positive, happy, respectful, and culturally aware citizens who make it their responsibility to contribute to their own communities and wider communities. As ‘one learning community’ we learn alongside one another in a way that strives to meet the needs of all learners so that everyone gets exactly what they need. Our 21st Century learning skills of curiosity, imagination, resilience, independence and collaboration are evident in all aspects of learning.
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