Extended Services

Burford Primary School, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4SG

6 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  20 October 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,017.00 - £26,429.00 Annually (FTE)

Extended Services job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic, energetic, and creative Extended Services Playworker to join our dedicated team. In this role, you will help plan and deliver a wide range of engaging, inclusive, and safe play opportunities for children aged 4-11 years.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver Play Sessions: Assist in planning and setting up indoor and outdoor play activities, including arts and crafts, sports, and cooperative games.
• Ensure Child Safety: Maintain a safe, clean, and secure environment, ensuring all safeguarding and health and safety policies are strictly followed.
• Support Wellbeing: Provide high-quality care, helping children settle in, resolve conflicts positively, and build social skills.
• Provide Healthy Snacks: Help prepare and serve nutritious breakfast or afternoon snacks in line with food hygiene standards.
• Build Relationships: Communicate effectively and warmly with parents, carers, and school staff during drop-offs and pick-ups.

Essential:

• A genuine passion for working with children and supporting their development through play.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and use initiative.
• Reliability, punctuality, and a positive "can-do" attitude.

Desirable:

• Level 2 or 3 qualification in Playwork, Childcare, or equivalent.
• Current First Aid certificate (Pediatric First Aid is highly desirable).
• Food Hygiene certification.
• Previous experience working in a school, nursery, or holiday club setting

ODST and Burford Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All applicants are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.

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

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 Burford Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 144 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Burford Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/burford-primary-school

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