Extended Provision Assistant

Wantage Church of England Primary School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DJ

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  22 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 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: £26,016.00 - £26,427.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 4, SCP 4 - 5. Up to 15 hours per week, term time only. Actual £13.52 - £13.74 per hour plus 12.07% holiday pay supplement

Extended Provision Assistant job summary

Working hours: Flexible days, Monday to Friday, between 3:00 pm and 6:15 pm
Hours per week: Up to 15 hours
Location: Wantage CE Primary School
Age requirement: Applicants must be aged 17 or over

We are looking for a warm, caring and enthusiastic individual to join our after-school wraparound care provision at Wantage CE Primary School.

This is a flexible role offering up to 15 hours per week. Working alongside the Extended Provision Supervisor and our supportive team, the successful candidate will help provide a welcoming, enjoyable and nurturing environment in which children can relax, play and take part in engaging activities at the end of the school day.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Safeguarding children throughout the after-school period and following the school’s safeguarding procedures;
• Supporting the Extended Provision Supervisor and other members of the team with the day-to-day running of the provision;
• Preparing and assisting with a range of age-appropriate play and recreational activities;
• Engaging positively with children and supporting them in their play;
• Supervising children and maintaining their safety at all times;
• Promoting positive behaviour in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy;
• Assisting with registers and ensuring that children are safely collected by authorised adults;
• Preparing and serving meals and snacks while following food hygiene and allergy procedures;
• Setting up, tidying, and safely storing activities, equipment and resources;
• Communicating appropriately with children, parents, carers and colleagues;
• Reporting accidents, incidents, safeguarding concerns or changes in a child’s wellbeing to the Extended Provision Supervisor;
• Following all school safeguarding, health and safety and confidentiality policies.

You should:

• Be aged 17 or over;
• Be able to build strong and appropriate relationships with children;
• Be caring, patient and enthusiastic;
• Be able to work effectively as part of a team;
• Be dependable, organised and willing to use your initiative;
• Have effective communication skills;
• Be able to support children in their play while maintaining their safety;
• Be able to promote positive behaviour in line with the school’s guidelines;
• Demonstrate good food hygiene practices and follow the school’s health and safety policies;
• Be able to respond calmly and appropriately to unexpected situations.

Previous experience of working with or caring for children would be desirable, but is not essential. Relevant training may be provided.

You will be joining a friendly and supportive staff team at Wantage CE Primary School and will play an important role in providing high-quality care for our children at the end of the school day.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
Wantage CE Primary School and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.

The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ communities.

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 Wantage Church of England Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 435 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Wantage Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wantage-church-of-england-primary-school

Pupils at Wantage CE Primary School are safe, happy and enjoy their learning. We are well-supported by the Vale Academy Trust, governors, the local church, parents, and the wider community. This allows us to offer our pupils a broad and balanced curriculum that enables pupils to flourish and to live life to the full.

We are pleased to offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities including sports clubs such as judo, rugby, netball, tennis, frisbee, water-polo, tri-golf and ‘quad kids’ athletics. We are very proud of our sporting successes and the ever-increasing percentage of children who take part in a wide range of sports. We achieved the Schools Sports Mark Platinum Award this year, an accolade which we are proud of. We also competed in several local maths competitions and ran popular computing and robotics clubs.

We have a rich tradition of music at Wantage CE. Every year, Year 3 learn a brass instrument; and individual instrument lessons take place in all years including flute, keyboard, piano, drums and guitar. Gordon Campbell, VAT music specialist, teaches one day a week, leading Key Stage choirs and whole-school singing.

Our church links are very important to us. A team from church present a weekly Open the Book assembly and join us for collective worship. We attend church each term and we look forward to the Prayer Space team who visit us twice a year. Our Year 5 pupils enjoy the dedicated support of the nuns from St Mary’s Convent Wantage in helping them to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the Passion play which the pupils write, produce and perform every Easter.

Staff development continues to remain at the heart of Wantage CE Primary School. We have two staff who have completed their teacher training and are now teaching full time with us, we employed the first apprentice TA in the trust (he is performing extremely well), and this year we have a TA who has progressed to train as a SCITT with us.

School staff, parents and governors have together formulated a distinctive Christian vision for the school. Excellence for all in an environment of love, respect, hope, forgiveness and courage; where every pupil flourishes and lives life to the full.

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