Play Co-Ordinator

Hawthorn Tree School, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 0PT

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  21 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 7 hours 30 minutes per week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: G3 £25,614-£26,847

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Has experience of working with children (school experience desirable but not essential)
• Demonstrates patience, empathy and resilience
• Has good communication and teamwork skills
• Is flexible and proactive in supporting learning
• Shares our commitment to inclusion and pupil wellbeing

What the school offers its staff

• A welcoming and supportive staff team
• A strong focus on professional development and training
• The opportunity to work in a caring, inclusive school community
• A positive working environment where staff wellbeing matters

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.

The Role

We are seeking to appoint a Play Co-Ordinator to join our lunch time team. The successful candidate will work closely with professionals to co-ordinate and organise suitable games and activities over lunch time play as part of our Opal play.

This role would suit someone who is:

• Passionate about working with children
• Child‑centred and nurturing
• Committed to inclusive practice
• Keen to support pupils academically, socially and emotionally
• Plan and prepare activities to aid the social development of pupils.
• Co-ordinate and organise suitable games/activities.
• Setting up and storage of equipment and resources.
• Support pupils with additional needs, including SEND, where appropriate.
• Promote positive behaviour, independence and emotional wellbeing.
• Contribute to creating a safe, calm and inclusive environment.

Key Responsibilities

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Hawthorn Tree School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 364 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Hawthorn Tree School website
• Email address: enquiries@hawthorn-tree.lincs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01205 363031
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hawthorn-tree-school

Our primary school is located in the eastern suburbs of Boston. Only 2 miles from the town centre, we offer an excellent primary education to children from the Skirbeck, Toot Lane and Eastwood Road areas. As a popular and oversubscribed school, the school has seen a number of minor and major building programmes, the most recent of which was from 2012 to 2014, when the Department for Education allocated £1.73 million to extend the school from a planned admissions number of 40 children in each year group to 60.

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