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Breakfast Club Playworker

Halfway Nursery Infant School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S20 3GU

24 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 7.5 hours per week: 7:20am until 8:50am.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24790

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking an enthusiastic person, to facilitate our breakfast club provision 5 mornings per week for around 20 pupils per day, within a team of two. The role will include setting up games and activities and engaging with children to ensure play is positive and enriching. During the club, children are also offered breakfast and staff will be expected to make, serve and supervise this.

The role is ideal for someone who is seeking further school experience.

Due to the age of the children, the suitable candidate must have a minimum of a teaching assistant level 2 qualification, or equivalent.

Main responsibilities of the role are:

• To monitor and record registers to manage breakfast club attendance

• Supervision, organisation and safeguarding (including first aid and food hygiene) of children at breakfast club

• Set up, organise, manage and clear away resources and materials

• Organise and be active in developing interactive activities for the children during play and ensuring children are positively engaging in play.

• Encourage and facilitate positive social experiences for children.

• To assist as required to ensure a calm, clean environment in the breakfast club room.

The successful candidate will be friendly, have good communication skills as well as the ability to adapt their approach to suit the needs, different personalities and interests of the children. We are looking for a team member who can:

• Exhibit a calm and reassuring manner

• Build positive relationships with pupils, parents and staff

• Actively engage with pupils within activities.

• Be passionate about making a difference to every child.

• Value a team working approach and be keen to contribute and share your skills with colleagues

• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with the school community

• Be punctual and reliable

• Bring ideas and direction to develop the quality of the breakfast club.

What the school offers its staff

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team who are driven to provide a high quality learning environment

• A group of very well behaved and happy children who enjoy interacting with adults and forming relationships.

• A happy, calm and purposeful working environment.

• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff and parents.

• Suitable training, including First Aid and food hygiene, where required.

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.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

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About Halfway Nursery Infant School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 201 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Halfway Nursery Infant School website
• Email address: helena.clayton@halfway-inf.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01142 482360
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/halfway-nursery-infant-school

Arranging a visit to Halfway Nursery Infant School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helena.clayton@halfway-inf.sheffield.sch.uk.

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