Playworker
Holmwood School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK8 9AB10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
22 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £2,891.00 - £2,891.00 Annually (Actual)
Playworker job summary
PERMANENT PLAYWORKER ROLE AVAILABLE
5 HOURS PER WEEK, MONDAY TO FRIDAY
TERM TIME ONLY
Salary £25425 (full time equivalent) Actual salary £2891
Lunchtimes are an important part of the school day. We are looking for someone to join our established, friendly team to help our children have a happy and safe lunchtime. If you are interested in working in a school, where there could be other career opportunities for you too, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking to employ playworkers to support high quality outdoor play which is important part of children's development.
Key objectives of the role:
- Supervise pupils' play activities outside during their midday break
- Oversee play activities to enhance pupils free time, providing safe, creative, and appropriate play opportunities
- Organise, maintain and clean play equipment, ensuring safe storage
- Maintain standards of behaviour that comply with the school's behaviour policy
- Supervise the transition of pupils from internal to external areas
- Set up and storage or portable equipment/resources
- Carry out personal care, hygiene and first aid duties
Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.
Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.
All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check
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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 Holmwood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 7
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 196 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Holmwood School website
2 form entry infant school with 26 place nursery
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