13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    22 September 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    8 September 2025

Job details

Job role

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Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Breakfast club hours 7.45am-8.30am Monday to Friday 3.45 hours per week After School club hours 3.30pm-5.30pm Monday to Friday 10 hours per week Total 13.45 hours per week. 38 weeks per year.

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

Kent Scheme B £7,641 (£25,126 FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery Schoolare looking to appoint an enthusiastic and caring Breakfast and After School Club assistant.

The school offers a happy and rewarding working environment, where staff and pupils share warm relationships. Professional development and staff wellbeing is valued at all levels. We also offer an expanding benefits package which includes an excellent Employee Support Programme (which includes free counselling support, GP appointments and wellbeing resources), a great salary-based pension scheme, a wellbeing day in term time, a staff discount scheme, and eye-care scheme and free tea and coffee on site.

Previous experience is desirable however, if you are enthusiastic, positive and passionate about working with children and have great communication skills with both children and adults, we would encourage you to apply.

What the school offers its staff

Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School caters for up to 230 children. Children can begin in the Nursery when they are 3, move into school at age 4 and remain until they are 7 when they transfer to Barton Junior School.

The Early Years provision at Shatterlocks is highly regarded across the county with children enjoying a wealth of learning experiences and opportunities, ensuring a sound basis upon which future learning can be based. Children enjoy and achieve through a lively, inclusive curriculum, which is constantly evolving to develop a lifelong love of learning. The daily breakfast and after school clubs ensure that we offer wrap-around care to all our children.

At Shatterlocks the relationship between children, staff, school and home is seen as vital to enabling all children to achieve their full potential.

Barton Junior school is a two-form entry Junior school (ages 7-11) in the heart of Dover. We provide our children with an excellent continuation of their education from infant school. Our aim is for every child to reach their full potential through creating a stimulating and caring environment that provides challenges and enjoyment, where children’s natural curiosity and wonder about the world around them is encouraged, where children will thrive. We believe in the partnership between home and school and believe ‘Together we make a difference.’ All members of the team play a vital part in achieving this and are recognised as valuable members of the school community.

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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Legislation.

Applying for the job

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About Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 7
Education phase
Primary
School size
156 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 7
Ofsted report
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Email address
hr@samphirestar.com

At Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School we inspire, motivate and challenge pupils, establishing a safe and stimulating environment, rooted in mutual respect. We set goals that stretch and challenge children of all backgrounds and abilities and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which we expect.

We are very proud of our school and provide children with an excellent continuation of their education. Our aim is for every child to reach their full potential. We do this through a stimulating and caring environment that provides challenges and enjoyment, where children’s natural curiosity and wonder about the world around them is encouraged, where children will thrive.

Arranging a visit to Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@samphirestar.com.

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