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Play Worker

East Harling Primary School and Nursery, Norwich, Norfolk, NR16 2NQ

This job expired on 3 December 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  3 December 2025 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  21 November 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: £13.05 per hour

Play Worker job summary

Tel: 01953 717221

Email: head@eastharling.norfolk.sch.uk

Website: www.eastharlingprimary.co.uk 

Headteacher: Miss Amanda Yates

NOR: 238

• Salary – Scale C, £13.05 per hour
• Permanent
• 5.5 hours per week
• Term Time only
• Required January 2026

We are looking for a positive, enthusiastic and friendly person to join ‘The Den’, our before and after school club. You will be working alongside the Play Leader in planning, setting up and supervising activities, preparing snacks for the children and ensuring that the Den is a safe and clean environment. The successful applicant will ideally hold an NVQ Level 2 in play work or child care qualification (or equivalent). We would consider applications from candidates who wish to apply for just the before school or after school hours (as two separate roles).

For further information and an application form are available on the school website (www.eastharlingprimary.co.uk) contact the school by telephone or email (head@eastharling.norfolk.sch.uk).

How to apply

To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.

Completed forms should be returned to – head@eastharling.norfolk.sch.uk 

NB - Two professional, independent references will be required. 

Closing date:  3 December 2025

Interview date: TBA

We are an equal opportunities employer. The successful applicant will be expected to share the school’s commitment to the safeguarding of our children and will therefore be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check. 

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our care; any successful applicant will be expected to share this commitment and will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

This post is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations and the successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

This job post has expired.

About East Harling Primary School and Nursery

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 209 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: East Harling Primary School and Nursery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/east-harling-primary-school-and-nursery

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