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Before and After School Manager

Bolshaw Primary School, Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 3LW

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  2 July 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Monday - Friday mornings - 7.15am - 8.45am Monday - Friday afternoons 2.45pm - 5.45pm
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,598 Scale 5 point 12 (pay award pending)

What skills and experience we're looking for

To lead and be responsible for the day to day organisation of the Before and After School provision providing high standards of care and play opportunities for children between the ages of 4- 11 years in a safe and secure environment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Delivering After School Provision

• To lead the day to day management and organisation of the Before and After-School Club
• To provide line management to a team of play workers, supervisor and club leader directing the work of staff based at the Before and After School Club, supervising their activities and inducting new staff members.
• Work with all staff to ensure and provide care, play opportunities and activities in a homely, nurturing, and safe environment, with regard to the individual development needs of the children.
• To oversee, lead and motivate a team of staff to deliver high quality creative play opportunities in a safe and caring environment

• Liaise with the school with regard to the needs of the children who attend the club
• To be the contact between the parents and the Before and After School Club

• Print the registers for the Before and After School club, and maintain the online booking system
• Act as the link between the school office and the Before and After School club
• Ordering of necessary equipment and food
• Uphold, implement and regularly review all policies and procedures of the group in partnership with the staff team and the Committee
• Maintain all records relating to the management of the group ensuring confidentiality and data protection of the children, their families and members of staff.

Management and Administration

• Manage the online payment system (ParentPay), ensure that parents are not in arrears
• Manage the adjustments to day to day bookings ensuring that parents are charged correctly.
• To be responsible for the day to day administration and record keeping that includes maintaining records of attendance and providing information returns and other appropriate records as required and maintaining records of staff attendances, checking and authorising their salary pay claims and managing staff absences and lateness.

• To effectively manage the occupancy levels of the After School Club; managing the waiting list and offering child care places.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of the service.
• Maintaining working relationships with other site users (particularly the school Headteacher)

• To ensure that adequate standards of safety and hygiene are maintained throughout the After School club, including the completion of appropriate risk assessments and recording and reporting of hazards and accidents.

• To ensure that all staff work within the policies and guidance and procedures of the schools’ policies

Line Manager of staff

• Recruitment and induction of staff is carried out in accordance with the Recruitment Policy
• To work in partnership with the School’s Strategic Leadership Team to provide an appraisal system for staff and the organise staff training to meet identified training needs
• Take responsibility for personal professional development, including participation in own annual appraisal, any necessary training and attending After School Club Managers meetings to keep abreast of all current issues relating to providing Wrap around Care

What the school offers its staff

We will offer you:

• A dedicated, supportive and enthusiastic team of staff and Governors.
• A values-based school where children’s wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.
• A commitment to your professional development.
• A culture that embraces new approaches and promotes creative thinking.

• Amazing children who are excited about learning
• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic school committed to our children
• A friendly, supportive and positive working environment

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.

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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 complete the online application.

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About Bolshaw Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: Up to 210 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bolshaw Primary School website
• Email address: jobs@bolshaw.stockport.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01614376886
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bolshaw-primary-school-cheadle

Bolshaw Primary School, Cross Road, Heald Green, Stockport SK8 3LW


We are a popular, nurturing and inclusive school, where children are happy and have a desire to learn. The staff are dedicated and put the children at the heart of everything they do. We are all determined that our pupils will thrive, be happy and successful. We share a clear vision for improving our children’s life chances through providing equality of opportunity, an engaging and purposeful curriculum and high-quality teaching and learning. Our aim is to engage our pupils with a rich learning environment, allowing them to grow and become ‘successful learners,’ ‘confident individuals,’ ‘responsible citizens,’ and ‘effective contributors.’ 

‘The very caring and calm ethos that is at the heart of Bolshaw Primary School’

‘Pupils flourish and staff feel proud to work at the school’

‘This is a truly inclusive school where all pupils are valued as individuals’

Ofsted

Arranging a visit to Bolshaw Primary School

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