Early Years Playworker - Maternity Cover

Langdale Primary School, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 3QE

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 November 2026

• Closing date

  15 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  30 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 Annually (FTE)

Early Years Playworker - Maternity Cover job summary

Do you have a passion for the Early Years? Are you experienced in nurturing and caring for 2/3/4-year olds? Could you provide our children with high quality care? Do you love getting gooey, muddy, sticky and glittery? Can you pretend to be an explorer one day and The Gruffalo the next? If this sounds like you, then you could be the next member of our EYFS team.

Langdale’s Little Learners and Early Explorer’s is our 2, 3 and 4 -year-old provision. Due to a maternity leave, position, we are looking to appoint member of staff to work alongside our dedicated, hardworking fabulous team. We require the candidate to support our care club in the school holidays.

If you would like to know more details, please contact us on 01782 948000. We would welcome you to come to visit our setting.

Contracted hours: 32.5 hours a week, 8:30am-3:30pm

Contract type: Maternity Cover, whole year, required to work in care club during the school holidays.

Pay grade: Grade 3

Annual Pay: £25,583 FTE

The duties for this role will include:

Support to Organisation

Safeguarding children is your priority.

Ensuring every individual child’s needs are met.

Creating strong relationships with parents and keeping them updated on their child’s day and development.

Take pride in the delivery of exciting and age appropriate activities.

Adhere to our policies.

Help create a setting that is clean and welcoming

Support to Pupils

Help plan a range of suitable activities for children aged 2 - 3 years of age.

Treating all children as individuals and to have a secure knowledge and understanding of their needs while they are within our care.

Motivating and encouraging the children to participate in activities.

Helping to promote the children’s self-esteem.

Encouraging acceptance of children with special needs.

Ensure a clean, tidy environment conducive to fostering good Health and Safety practice.

Follow statutory and non-statutory policies and procedures required for the efficient running of the club.

Support Deputy and/or Manager in maintaining Ofsted standards of care.

To help prepare nutritional snacks for children.

Ensuring the welfare and safety of children within our care. Promoting good behaviour within the group.

To be ready at all times for emergency situations.

Contribute to learning journeys through observations

Support to School

Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for or

come into contact with.

Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

Be aware of, support and ensure equal opportunities for all.

Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.

Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.

Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.

Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required

Note 1:

In addition to the ability to perform the duties of the post, issues relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children will need to be demonstrated these will include:

Motivation to work with children and young people.

Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.

Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and

Attitudes to use of authority and maintaining discipline.

Langdale Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record and other relevant safeguarding information that may make them unsuitable to work with children.

It is an offence to apply for this position if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity.

A copy of the schools Safeguarding Policy can be viewed here: https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/langdaleprimarynewcastle/UploadedDocument/3997ed4b-3ed5-43f1-83d7-44e89f6d7805/langdale-primary-school-safeguarding-policy-2023-24.pdf

If you are successful in being shortlisted for this post, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence

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 Langdale Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 411 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Langdale Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/langdale-primary-school-newcastle

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