Play Worker

Belleville Primary School, London, SW11 6PR

13 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13.85 Hourly

Play Worker job summary

We seek enthusiastic, positive people who work well with children, staff and parents, and can remain calm when there is lots going on!

You will work as part of a team to run Belleville Primary School’s new ‘wraparound’ provision (breakfast club and after school club) which will start running in September 2025.

This will involve supporting children to participate in engaging and enriching activities, and making sure they follow relevant policies and procedures to ensure their safety and wellbeing.

You will have

• experience of working with children of primary school age
• an understanding of good quality childcare
• an understanding of safeguarding and child protection duties
• the ability to engage children in fun and developmental activities
• empathy, sensitivity and great communication skills
• high expectations of yourself and others.

The role will involve:

• Providing care for the children attending the programme, supervising them during activities and when eating, and ensuring they feel safe and looked after at all times.
• Encouraging positive behaviour (“Making the Right Choices”), independence and self-esteem.
• Making sure equipment is set up, used, maintained and put away safely.
• Ensuring the safe transfer of children to class (after breakfast club) or collection (after school).

For more details about the role and what we are looking for, please download the attached job description and person specification.

Belleville is an ambitious, vibrant and supportive place to work.

Ofsted (March 2022) say:

• Pupils thrive at Belleville. Pupils speak with enthusiasm about the rich curriculum they learn. Pupils behave very well and engage positively with their learning
• Staff are proud to work at Belleville. They receive extensive professional development and are appreciative of this. They feel their workload is well managed by leaders who welcome their input on how the school operates.

We are a very successful, popular, outstanding school with a focus on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all children. We have two school sites (Belleville Webb's and Belleville Meteor), a fantastic staff team and a supportive parent/carer community. We are in a vibrant area of south London with excellent transport links. Our proximity to Clapham Junction gives us easy access to central London and out across the south of England.

We have strong systems in place to help children achieve, so learning behaviour is excellent here. We provide amazing enrichment opportunities including visits, trips and clubs. We have a committed staff team, supportive parents and carers, and most importantly, truly incredible children!

Belleville is part of Quality First Education (Q1E), a successful Multi-Academy Trust with four primary schools on five sites across south London. This is an exciting time for us and we want the best people to join us. We would love to hear from you.

All posts in Q1E schools are subject to an enhanced DBS with barred list check. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children. We may carry out online searches of shortlisted candidates.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

All posts in Q1E schools are subject to an enhanced DBS with barred list check. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children. We may carry out online searches of shortlisted candidates.

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.

About Belleville Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 1006 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Belleville Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/belleville-primary-school

We are a successful, popular, outstanding school with a focus on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all children. We have two school sites (Webbs and Meteor), a fantastic staff team and a supportive parent/carer community. We are in a vibrant area of south London with excellent transport links. Our proximity to Clapham Junction gives us access to central London and across the south of England.

Belleville Primary School is part of Quality First Education (Q1E), a successful Multi-Academy Trust with four primary schools on five sites across south London. This is an exciting time for us and we want the best people to join us as we grow further.

At Q1E, we believe that “the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers” (McKinsey 2007). The recruitment, retention and development of high quality teachers is our highest priority.

Staff wellbeing is very important to us. We provide clear structures, excellent resources and outstanding professional development for our staff. All teachers new to the Trust receive pre-induction training before starting in post. We are an outward facing trust and believe in learning from the best schools and systems - you will have lots of opportunity to watch outstanding practice and get involved in wider projects across our dynamic Trust as well as be supported to progress in your teaching career. There are opportunities for new teachers to take on leadership responsibilities for the right candidate.

We offer a high quality, well-resourced and carefully structured curriculum to support teacher wellbeing. High quality specialist teachers are employed to teach PE, art, computing, music and French. We strive to meet the needs of all our children – doing ‘Whatever It Takes’ to help children fulfil their potential.

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