Play Worker
Wembury Primary School, Plymouth, Devon, PL9 0EB9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
5 September 2025
Closing date
26 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 August 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
- £24,027.00 - £24,404.00 Annually (FTE)
Play Worker job summary
Play Worker (Permanent)
Breakfast Club 7.15am - 8.45am Monday to Friday.
Salary / Grade: B - Scale Point 3 to 4- £24,027 - £24,404 per annum, pro-rata
7.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year,
Application Deadline – 26th August 2025
Job Start Date –ASAP
We are looking for a Play Worker to work from 7.15am - 8.45am Monday to Friday. Applicants must be a good team member and ideally have some experience in child care provision and be willing to engage fully in the work of our school, including being flexible, working as part of a friendly, supportive team with high expectations. Duties will involve taking registration/organising administration as well as preparing activities. Full training will be provided for the successful candidate.
Safeguarding statement
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. As part of our commitment, we need to ensure that all potential employees satisfy our employment
checks. Please note that where appropriate, shortlisted and/or potentially suitable applicants will be required to undertake further checks, including references, and will be required to provide a Disclosure from the DBS.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
We will treat applicants who have a criminal record fairly and will not discriminate because of a conviction or other information revealed. Possession of a criminal record will not automatically prevent applicants from working with us. As part of the recruitment process any information revealed regarding a criminal record will only be considered in light of its relevance to the post for which the candidate is applying.
As you are applying for a post which is eligible for a DBS Disclosure, you are required to declare information on any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings, which would not be filtered in line with current guidance.
Therefore, if you have received a conviction or caution, which would not be filtered in line with current guidance, you must provide details below (including any convictions in a court of law outside of Great Britain) and any prosecutions that you have pending.
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 Wembury Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wembury Primary School website
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