Breakfast and Afterschool Club Manager
Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJ16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 June 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
- £11,516.27 - £13,083.21 Annually (Actual) Salary is dependent on experience. Paid term time only.
Breakfast and Afterschool Club Manager job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative manager for our popular, oversubscribed, breakfast and afterschool clubs.
Our breakfast and afterschool clubs provide a vital service to our working families who rely on us to provide a safe, fun, warm and caring environment for their children before and after school. The clubs are run by a fantastic team of experienced staff who know the children well so that they are well-prepared for the day ahead and have a great place to be at the end of a busy school day.
Breakfast club runs every day from 7:15-8:30am, and afterschool club runs from 3:00-6:00pm (5:15pm on Fridays). 20.5 hours per week, term time only.
The Breakfast and Afterschool Club Manager will:
- Be responsible for the safety and wellbeing of the children at breakfast and afterschool clubs.
- Establish an environment where all children are welcome and everyone flourishes and enjoys being at breakfast and afterschool clubs.
- Plan an engaging timetable of activities, particularly for during our afterschool clubs.
- Manage the staff team rota.
- Liaise with the school office staff to manage bookings and payments for the clubs.
- Oversee the menu and preparation of food provided during breakfast and afterschool clubs.
- Provide support, training and induction of new staff in the role of breakfast or afterschool club play leaders.
- Build strong relationships with the parents/carers of the children who attend the clubs.
You will be working as part of the wider team of wonderful staff at Wantage CE Primary School.
Our vision is 'Learning for Life' where every member of our school community Learns, is Inspired, Flourishes and Enjoys being part of Wantage CE Primary School every day.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A DBS disclosure is required for this post. Our safeguarding policy can be found on the school's website. All shortlisted applicants will be subject to an online search.
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Wantage Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 426 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wantage Church of England Primary School website
Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.
We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.
We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.
Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.
Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.
School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.
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