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Before and After School Care Assistant

Highfield South Farnham School, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8QH

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• Job start date

  4 December 2025

• Closing date

  15 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £12,239 (£24,735 FTE Equivalent)

Before and After School Care Assistant job summary

Do you enjoy working with children and creating a fun, welcoming environment? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We are seeking an enthusiastic and caring individual to join our team as a Before and After School Care Assistant for our Breakfast Club and After School Club, supporting children aged 4–11 who attend Highfield South Farnham.

This role totals 21.25 hours a week, term-time-only (38 weeks per year) and runs Monday to Friday. Our Breakfast Club operates from 7:30am to 8:45am, and our After School Club from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.

For more details, please refer to the attached job description. We also warmly welcome visits to the school prior to submitting an application.

Highfield South Farnham is part of South Farnham Educational Trust which is a multi-academy trust which currently consists of eleven schools. We also have an associate member of the Trust - St Mary's C of E (Aided) Infant School. Our thriving School Centred Initial Teacher Training establishment (SCITT) is an outstanding, innovative, well-established and highly respected provider of Primary and Secondary Initial Teacher Training. It has over 100 trainees and from September 2021 South Farnham School was awarded Teaching School Hub status.

Highfield South Farnham School is a two-form entry primary school with a Nursery, catering for children from three years. Since working with the Trust it has become an ‘Outstanding’ school with a rapidly growing reputation for high-quality provision.

South Farnham Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment to this post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time ahead of the closing date if there is a good level of response. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application as early as possible and you are welcome to arrange a visit to meet the team.

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.

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About Highfield South Farnham School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 479 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Highfield South Farnham School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highfield-south-farnham-school

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