Extended Care Manager - Level 3 EYFS
Sandhills Community Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8FN10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
30 November 2026
Closing date
2 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 October 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
- £30,025.00 Annually (FTE) £ 11,178.23 Actual
Extended Care Manager - Level 3 EYFS job summary
Are you an organised childcare or playwork professional seeking a leadership role where you can make a daily impact? At Sandhills Community Primary School, we are seeking an Extended Care Manager to lead our out-of-school provision, maintaining a safe, welcoming space where pupils can relax, socialise, and play.
Why This Role MattersYou will oversee the day-to-day organisation, safety, and play activities for our pupils outside normal school hours. Leading a dedicated team, you will ensure our provision helps children build positive relationships, practise social skills, and feel secure.
What You’ll Bring- Leadership & Supervision: Experience in supervising staff or volunteers, ensuring clear direction and effective deployment.
- Childcare & Playwork Practice: Sound working knowledge of childcare standards, and healthy eating guidelines.
- Operational Administration: Competence in day-to-day administration, record-keeping, and resource purchasing within budget.
- Safeguarding Rigour: A thorough understanding of child protection and safeguarding procedures, maintaining safe and hygienic surroundings at all times.
- Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to build collaborative relationships with parents, carers, school staff, and local agencies.
- A Values-Led Ethos: Our school values—Respect, Relationships, Responsibility, and Resilience—guide our staff and pupils every day.
- Professional Agency: You will have the autonomy to organise activities, adapt play spaces, and lead your team in a way that best serves our pupils.
- A Supportive Community: Work in an environment where staff contributions are recognised, valued, and celebrated.
Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust. As part of our wider team, you receive:
Professional Security: Access to a secure, government-backed pension scheme (LGPS) and recognition of continuous public sector service.
Shared Growth: Funded opportunities for continuous professional development and role-specific training[cite: 1, 2].
The Whole Person: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme support and a workplace culture that respects workload and personal wellbeing.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with our School Business Manager, Karen Crouch, about the role, prior to application, then please email kcrouch@sandhillsprimary.org or telephone 01865 648690.
The River Learning Trust and Sandhills Community Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment for all staff, free from discrimination and harassment.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Sandhills Community Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 193 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Sandhills Community Primary School is an inclusive school serving several vibrant and diverse communities on the outskirts of Oxford. There are currently 228 students at the school. We offer our children an ambitious curriculum, based around our core values of Respect, Relationships, Responsibility and Resilience, to ensure that all children have the opportunity to achieve their potential both academically and as citizens of the future. The school has recently been rated “Good” by Ofstead in October 2022.
Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust, which presents opportunities for leaders and staff to work collaboratively and efficiently together between schools in the community. There is an extensive professional network across the Trust which supports and enhances collaboration, research and learning opportunities for pupils, staff and parents.
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