Lunchtime Play Worker
Uphill Village Academy, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, BS23 4XH14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2026
Closing date
13 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £4,206 - £4,330
Lunchtime Play Worker job summary
Job Title: Lunchtime Playworker
Actual Annual Salary: £4,206 - £4,330 (Based on hours and weeks worked)
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £24,819 - £25,548 (CLF Grade Aii). Based on 37 hours per week, All year round.
Contract Type: Permanent, Term time only
Hours: 7.5 hours per week
Additional role information: This role will involve working Monday to Friday, 1.5 hours per day. Flexible working patterns may be considered for the right candidate.
Provisional Start Date: 06 January 2025
Opportunity to join a friendly, hard-working team and support children at lunchtime by providing positive play experiences within a safe environment.
We are looking for a new Lunchtime Playworker to join our supportive and talented team at Uphill Village Academy. If you are caring, responsible, and enthusiastic about helping children enjoy a positive and engaging break in their school day, we’d love to hear from you.
As a Lunchtime Playworker, you’ll help deliver a safe, inclusive and stimulating lunchtime experience for all children. You’ll work closely with colleagues to support play activities, encourage positive behaviour, and ensure the wellbeing of every child in your care.
About you:
You will have:
- An understanding of the varied needs of children and families.
- Knowledge of basic food hygiene and health & safety standards.
- The ability to maintain confidentiality and act with professionalism.
- The skills to provide and facilitate safe, creative and inclusive play.
- A calm, caring and empathetic approach to supporting children.
- The ability to work well in a team and use your own initiative.
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
If you’re passionate about making a difference to children’s school experience and enjoy working in a dynamic, child-centred environment, we encourage you to apply.
About Uphill Village Academy:
Uphill Village Academy is a vibrant primary school located in Weston-Super-Mare. We are a school that thrives on inclusion and strong pastoral and academic provision and welcome children and families to join our school community where we celebrate each other’s strengths and uniqueness. Our community of children, parents, relatives, colleagues and other local community groups work closely together to ensure our children learn in an environment where they are filled with joy, confidence, and a strong sense of agency and feel safe to try new experiences and explore concepts of learning in a deeper way.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 13 November @11.59pm
- Interviews: 19 November 2025
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs, a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
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 Uphill Village Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 312 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Uphill Village Academy website
Uphill Village Academy is a popular forward thinking Academy based on the outskirts of Weston super Mare rated “Good “ by Ofsted in 2018. Our academy is a place that values quality, character and standards. Our curriculum is innovative and exciting offering the children enriching and purposeful experiences that result in high quality work for real audiences. Our children come from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds and are taught how to work together to help make our school and the world a better place. We invest in relationships and believe that through working and learning together as a community we all grow, develop and achieve more.
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