24 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    2 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    9 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Monday - Thursday - 12 hours - 3pm - 6pm

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 months

Full-time equivalent salary

24,027

What skills and experience we're looking for

Due to expansion a position has become available for a Play worker at our before and After School Club within our strong, highly motivated, enthusiastic, hardworking club team.

You will need to be professional and polite and a good role model for our children. You are expected to be able to communicate effectively with children and staff with a good standard of spoken and written English. You must be able to work as part of a team and can give evidence of this in your application and interview.

The hours required for the post are 12 hours per week, 3-6 pm (Monday – Thursday). Fixed term contract September 2025 – July 2026 (in the first instance subject to permanent.

What the school offers its staff

Candidates will require an NVQ level 3 qualification. Advert goes live: 9th May 2025

Closing date for applications: 2nd June 2025 at 9:00 am.

Colmore Junior School complies with all aspects of the safer recruitment processes as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024. Successful candidates will be appointed after confirmation of satisfactory references, enhanced DBS clearance and right to work checks. On line checks will be done on all short listed candidates

Please send applications to: hr@colmorej.co.uk and address them for the attention of Lisa Maddams. Application forms available on the website or from the Junior School Office.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Colmore Junior School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
477 pupils enrolled
Age range
7 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Email address
hr@colmorej.co.uk

Colmore Junior School is a vibrant and forward thinking school, which thrives because of the strong community that supports it. A four-form entry school in the heart of Kings Heath, Colmore offers an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum, which seeks to develop the character of our pupils. Colmore children are sought after by local secondary schools and the ‘7 Key Principles’ that underpin our curriculum reflect why this is the case. Our teachers, alongside our children, are our biggest asset and we are looking to recruit the right candidate to join this dynamic, caring and outstanding team. Could this be you?

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