Breakfast and After School Club Assistant
Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School, Dover, Kent, CT16 2PB10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
4 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 7:45-8:30am and 3:30-5:30pm Monday to Friday. Term time only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Kent Scheme B
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School are 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.
Start Date: 01 September 2025
Salary: Kent Scheme B £7,641 (£25,126 FTE)
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.
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.
Information about the Trust
Samphire Star Education Trust Trust (the Trust) is a family of schools which serve the south of Kent community and beyond. It comprises Astor Secondary School, Barton Junior School, Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School, White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School. We have a well-established reputation for offering our pupils a safe and caring environment in which they can be happy and thrive as they learn. Ideas and opportunities are explored with enthusiasm through a broad and balanced curriculum throughout the Trust. All young people in our community, from the youngest to the oldest, are encouraged and supported to be the very best versions of themselves possible.
As a family of schools, The Trust works collaboratively to celebrate and nurture the uniqueness of all pupils. Through outstanding leadership, pastoral care, academic challenge and inspirational teaching all children are enabled to flourish, succeed and make a positive contribution to the communities they serve, creating strong citizens now and for the future.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@samphirestar.com
CVs are not accepted.
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About Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School website
- 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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