Afterschool Club Assistant

Woodford Halse Church of England Primary Academy, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 3RQ

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  4 December 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  21 November 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: £4,849.61 - £4,849.61 Annually (Actual)

Afterschool Club Assistant job summary

Purpose of the job

To provide supervision for the children attending the afterschool club sessions ensuring their enjoyment and safety.

Specific Accountabilities

Key Features:

Promote the use of the club to parents/carers.

Be the key point of contact for the club and deal with any enquiries from parents/carers.

Take registers

Welcome the children to each session, ensure they are safe, fed and occupied with suitable activities

Responsible for shopping and ensuring sufficient food

Be a key holder and responsible for opening/locking up before/after sessions

Organise activities and activity resources, replace resources as an when required

Organise staffing rotas to ensure child/staff ratios are correct

Encourage positive behaviour through actions such as role model, praise, sticker rewards, notifying parents or other methods

Manage behaviour in a calm, firm and positive manner

Promote inclusive education and integration and help in the development of relationships by encouraging appropriate interaction between children

Afterschool session:

Welcome children; take any messages from staff to pass on to parents

Ensure children place their belongings neatly away before entering the session

Prepare and serve a snack for each child

Ensure children eat and drink at the table and they tidy away after they have eaten by placing dirty crockery ready for washing up

Wash and put away crockery, clear and clean surfaces

After children have eaten, allow them to either sit at the table, play in the designated areas. If they wish to use a Chromebook make sure they are available for their use

Deal with any first aid incidents & accidents and record following school procedures

Contact parents if a child becomes unwell or requires collecting as a result of an accident

Supervise the children putting equipment they have used away tidily

Release children to their parents at the end of the session

Pass on any messages to parents

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 Woodford Halse Church of England Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 230 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodford Halse Church of England Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodford-halse-church-of-england-primary-academy

Woodford Halse C.E. Primary Academy is a rural school in the Northamptonshire countryside with 254 primary pupils and around 50 nursery pupils from the local villages. Our school is on a large site on the outskirts of the village with facilities such as a forest school, preschool, swimming pool and a large playing field on site. We are part of the Innovate Multi Academy Trust, made up of four local village primary schools who work collaboratively to raise standards.

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