Casual Team Leader

Riverside School, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3HS

36 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  17 October 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  11 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: as per Lighthouse Club operating hours
• Contract type: Casual
• Hourly rate: 15.42
• Additional allowances:

  holiday allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Adhere to Lighthouse Club and Riverside School processes and procedures whilst the children in your care are continually having a fun, stimulating and safe time.
• Encouraging and leading Activities Assistants ensuring they receive a plan of activities for the day, clear direction and they have read the All about me forms and attendee paperwork before working with any children.
• Assist with planning and delivery of activities with structure and enthusiasm; encouraging maximum participation from Activities Assistants and children.
• Setting up the classrooms including moving furniture and play equipment appropriate for the cohort of children in that day.
• Manage the exchange of all relevant information on the children to management, ensuring that All about me forms / similar documentation for children are being regularly reviewed and staff are working in line with these.
• Providing refreshments and ensuring that hygiene, health and safety standards are met.
• Consulting with children and involving them in planning future activities.
• Facilitating good communication with all members of the Club, parents, and schools.
• Undertaking appropriate and relevant training.
• Keeping the work environment healthy, safe and secure.
• Ensuring that all activities, equipment and the setting is safe with the relevant risk assessments undertaken.
• Actively contribute to ensuring up to date reports are correct for the Lighthouse Club Manager to feedback to allocated Social Workers.
• Ensuring the appropriate paperwork is completed for any physical dysregulations.
• Ensuring that any safeguarding issues are reportedly appropriately to the Lighthouse Club Manager
• Ensuring the demonstration of good professional standards.
• Setting and supporting the planning of the day for Activities Assistants with clear direction, activities times tables and understanding of the needs of the children. This will include allocating staff to children as appropriate.
• Ensuring Activities Assistants are following guidance around the use of mobile phones, GDPR and Confidentiality and Health and Safety.
• Attend regular Safeguarding training.
• Attend termly team meeting meetings with the Lighthouse Club Manager to report on the area that you lead.
• Be proactive in de-briefing Activities Assistants at the end of the day if there have been any physical dysregulations that have required paperwork to be filled out, to provide constructive feedback to the Activities Assistant.

What the school offers its staff

professional development

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

Riverside School is committed to providing equality of opportunity and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Team Leader - Information pack.pdf - 376 KB (opens in new tab)

About Riverside School

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 3 to 19
• Size: 360 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: Recruitment@riverside.bromley.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverside-school-orpington

We are a forward-thinking and innovative all-age (3-19) special school with a diverse population: our 360 pupils are based on four sites, St Paul’s Cray, Beckenham, West Wickham and Phoenix (Bromley), in the London Borough of Bromley. Pupil, family and staff engagement is extremely important to us and we strive to involve the whole school community in making Riverside the most incredible place for our pupils to learn and our staff to work. We aim to provide the kind of specialist education and opportunities that our families want and our pupils deserve. We stand together to promote inclusion and celebrate diversity so that everyone in our school community feels a true sense of belonging.

Our core values are at the heart of everything we do:

Aspiration Resilience Creativity Humility Integrity Trust Enthusiasm Courage Teamwork

They make up the acronym ARCHITECT to signify our passion for designing and building a school that will make an indelible mark on the world for generations to come; a school that will impact positively on everyone who enters, on people we may never meet, and in ways we may never know.

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