Deputy Play Leader

Brooklands Farm Primary School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK10 7EU

33 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  1 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £28,598.00 Annually (FTE) Grade E1. The full-time equivalent (FTE) salary will be paid on a pro rata basis

Deputy Play Leader job summary

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, flexible and committed Deputy Play Leader, to join our team of Playworkers at one of our campuses in our welcoming and friendly school. The purpose of this role is to provide a warm, fun and educational setting for children after their school day. You will be managing the team of playworkers to assist with supporting the school with the provision of extended care.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational individual to join the team at our thriving and successful school. Our mission is to provide every child with an educational experience that ensures children have solid foundations from which they can flourish. Barriers to learning are overcome and learning opportunities are unlimited. Every child must be both challenged and inspired to achieve beyond their dreams.

Are you interested in making sure that our children have quality wrap around care? Then this role is for you!

If this role has caught your eye, but 15 hours per week isn’t quite what you’re looking for, we’d still love to hear from you. Please get in touch to discuss whether there may be an opportunity to accommodate your preferred working hours.

Brooklands Farm School is proud to be part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning (IFtL) family of schools who inspire all of our futures through learning together.  At IFtL we are never alone.  We know we are stronger together - one united family striving for excellence for all, in everything we do.  

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check

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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

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Brooklands Farm Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 1320 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Brooklands Farm Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/brooklands-farm-primary-school-milton-keynes

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