Playleader
Wallscourt Farm Academy, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS16 1GE21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
3 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £5,569 - £6,070 (Based on hours and working weeks)
Playleader job summary
Job Title: Playleader
Actual Annual Salary: £5,569 - £6,070 (Based on hours and working weeks)
Full Time Equivalent Salary: £25,941 - £28,275 (CLF Grade B). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time, 9.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday), Term Time Only
Provisional Start Date: 01 September 2026
Your opportunity to support student wellbeing and engagement through high-quality play provision:
We are looking for a passionate Play Leader to join our supportive and talented team at Wallscourt Farm School on a permanent basis.
As a Play Leader, you will support the delivery of high-quality play provision for students outside of academy hours. Working under the guidance of senior staff, you will supervise and motivate a small team to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the provision. You will help create a safe, welcoming, and stimulating environment that supports student wellbeing, encourages positive social interaction, and enables all children to thrive.
You will take a lead role in planning, preparing, and delivering a varied programme of activities designed to meet the intellectual, creative, physical, emotional, and social needs of the students. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the academy, building positive relationships with students, staff, and parents/carers to ensure a consistent and high-quality experience.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact on students’ wellbeing and engagement beyond the classroom.
About you:
You will have:
- Experience working with young people, ideally in a play-based, youth work, or educational setting.
- The ability to lead, supervise, and support a small team, ensuring consistent and high-quality delivery of provision.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, and parents/carers.
- A calm, empathetic approach and the ability to respond effectively to a range of situations, including behavioural or pastoral needs.
- A good understanding of safeguarding, health and safety, and behaviour management practices.
- Experience (or willingness to develop) in planning engaging activities that meet a wide range of student needs and interests.
- Basic food hygiene knowledge and a willingness to undertake relevant training such as first aid or medication administration.
- A strong commitment to inclusion, equity, and promoting the wellbeing and success of all students.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
About Wallscourt Farm Academy:
Wallscourt Farm Academy is two-form entry primary school located in Stoke Gifford, on the outskirts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
At Wallscourt Farm , we foster ambitious young people who are culturally aware and who contribute to society and the lives of others. We value tolerance, understanding, mutual respect, unique individuality and celebrate the unity that this makes as we come together as one learning community. We foster a multi-faith, socially diverse environment with an emphasis on common values and principles for life. These principles underpin everything that happens within and around the school and bind us as individuals within diverse communities that come together with one shared goal – to contribute positively to our own lives and to the lives of others.
We hold high expectations for our learners and have crafted a curriculum that is progressive, well-sequenced, coherent, and inspiring.
Wallscourt Farm also has a positive, passionate and ambitious staff team. We value the part that each and every staff member plays in achieving our vision. We work hard to make people feel welcome and included and have created our own staff culture tree cookies.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 35 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters. Over 41% of the pupils who attend Wallscourt Farm Academy are from global majority groups, so we particularly encourage applicants from those groups in order to represent the pupils we serve, as well as wider underrepresented groups including gender, transgender, age disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: 03 July 2026 @11.59pm
- Shortlisting: 06 July 2026
- Interviews: w/c 13 July 2026
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Please note we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.
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 Wallscourt Farm Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 404 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wallscourt Farm Academy website
Wallscourt Farm Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). Wallscourt Farm Academy is a diverse learning community situated in Cheswick Village in South Gloucestershire. Wallscourt Farm Academy has created and fostered a multi-faith, socially diverse environment with an emphasis on common values and principles for life. The proportion of learners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds is slightly above national at 40% and 15% of our learners have English as an additional language. We use a ‘Rights, Responsibilities and Respect’ approach to foster positive, happy, respectful, and culturally aware citizens who make it their responsibility to contribute to their own communities and wider communities. As ‘one learning community’ we learn alongside one another in a way that strives to meet the needs of all learners so that everyone gets exactly what they need. Our 21st Century learning skills of curiosity, imagination, resilience, independence and collaboration are evident in all aspects of learning.
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