Play Worker - 10 hours per week
Birley Primary Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S12 3AB17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP after interview
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 10:59am
Date listed
5 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £5,717 - £6,183
Play Worker - 10 hours per week job summary
Birley Primary Academy, part of L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, is seeking a caring and reliable Playworker/Midday Supervisor to join our friendly team. This role is vital in supporting our pupils during the lunchtime period, ensuring a safe, happy, and inclusive environment both in the dining hall and on the playground.
Key responsibilities:
- Supervising children in the dining hall, playground, and around the school site during lunchtime
- Encouraging positive behaviour and play, helping pupils to develop social skills
- Promoting the school’s values and safeguarding the welfare of all pupils
- Assisting with minor first aid (training provided)
- Ensuring the lunchtime period runs smoothly and safely
We are looking for someone who:
- Enjoys working with children and is approachable, patient, and kind
- Has good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team
- Is reliable, punctual, and committed to supporting the school community
- Will promote inclusion and respect across all groups of pupils
In return, we offer:
- A welcoming and supportive staff team
- Training and development opportunities, including safeguarding and first aid
- The chance to make a real difference to children’s day-to-day school experience
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
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 Birley Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 541 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Birley Primary Academy website
Birley Primary Academy joined L.E.A.D Academy Trust in February 2017 together with four other schools in the Birley family. This is an exciting time to join our Academy and contribute to a successful learning environment for our children.
We are a large primary school in south east Sheffield, admitting children from 3 to 11 years with Foundation Stage 1 (nursery) provision for 104 children. Our admissions number is 90 children across all other year groups. The school was last inspected by Ofsted in 2019 and was judged to be good.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete a Criminal Records Disclosure Form in line with Section 115 of the Police Act 1997.
We value diversity and are committed to recruiting from all sections of the community.
The L.E.A.D. Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check in line with Section 115 of the Police Act 1997. The School follows safe recruitment practices.
Birley Primary Academy is part of L.E.A.D. Academy Trust, which is a registered charity created in 2011. The Trust aims, through outstanding leadership, to provide the highest quality education to enable every pupil to realise their full potential. Further information about the Trust can be found here http://www.leadacademytrust.co.uk/about-us
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