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Playworker

Gledhow Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 1PL

This job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  3 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: These are permanent contracts and can be a mixture of working both morning and afternoon Monday to Friday or split to just Mornings or Afternoons. Mornings – 7.20am to 8:50am am Monday to Friday (7.5 hrs per week) Afternoons – 2.45pm to 6.00pm Monday to Friday (16.25 hrs per week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,027
• Pay scale: A3, 03
• Hourly rate: £12.45

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about creating a fun, innovative, and safe environment for children? Do you have the skills to create engaging activities that promote positive play and build friendships? If you are used to working with children aged 4 to 11, we would love to hear from you?

Due to increased numbers at our popular “Gledowls Before & Afterschool club,” we are pleased to be recruiting several playworkers to join our amazing team.

Successful Candidates will:

• Be dedicated, friendly, and caring committed to making a positive difference to the lives of young people, helping them grow and develop in a nurturing and playful environment.
• Demonstrate an ability to create and maintain a safe, secure, and fun environment for our children and be able to plan appropriate activities that support their development needs and personal interests.
• Be well organised, strong communicators able to engage with children, parents, and colleagues.
• Have experience of working in an out of school club or similar setting.

You will be expected to:

• Work as a member of the Before and After School club team, showing initiative and creativity ensuring a high standard of childcare is always maintained.
• Be actively involved with planning and providing interesting learning opportunities through play, experiences, and activities, which allow the children to explore, develop and progress.
• Ensure the safety of children whilst in the club.

What the school offers its staff

In return we offer:

- First -Aid and Food hygiene training

- A 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme

- Retail discounts/offers at high street and online retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership.

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.

How to Apply

Please download and complete the application form by visiting https://www.gledhow.leeds.sch.uk/vacancies/playworker

Completed applications should be addressed to the Business Manager at the school address or via email to recruitment@gledhowschool.org.

Gledhow Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. This role is ‘regulated activity’ therefore you are advised to read our Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy which is also available at https://www.gledhow.leeds.sch.uk/vacancies/playworker.

Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and satisfactory references.

If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history and an on-line search will be conducted. This includes only information publicly available online.

We promote equality and diversity and inclusion and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.

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.

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About Gledhow Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 674 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Gledhow Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@gledhowschool.org
• Phone number: 0113 2930392
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gledhow-primary-school

Gledhow is a super school with brilliant pupils, staff, governors, and families. We are a large busy three-form entry school in North Leeds with a wonderfully diverse pupil and colleague community.

At Gledhow we strive to make the ordinary extraordinary, by taking the everyday experiences our pupils have and transforming them into amazing opportunities for learning, growth, and personal development.

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