Playworker

Oakwood School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 9JS

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  4 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 Hours a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 3,SCP 4-6

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Responsibilities

• Play Facilitation:Create and maintain play spaces; support and facilitatechild-led play activities.
• Inclusive Practice:Plan and deliver play opportunities that are inclusive of disabled children and young people.
• Safeguarding:Follow safeguarding procedures to ensure the welfare of all children.
• Health & Safety:Promote and maintain a safe and secure play environment; respond appropriately to emergencies.
• Food & Drink:Assist in the provision of food and drink during play sessions.
• Parental Engagement:Build positive relationships with parents and carers; share relevant information.
• Community Links:Support community engagement and partnerships where appropriate.
• Administration:Assist with record-keeping, financial transactions, and general administration.
• Travel Support:Help children during arrival, departure, and travel related to play activities.
• Professional Development:Reflect on and improve personal practice; contribute to team development.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Playwork or equivalent qualification/experience.
• Experience working with or caring for children of relevant age.
• Awareness of and commitment to equality of opportunity.
• Familiarity with and commitment to the Playwork Principles.

What the school offers its staff

Purpose of the Role

To support children and young people by facilitating freely chosen, self-directed play in a safe, inclusive, and engaging environment. The role contributes significantly to the play environment without holding full responsibility for it.

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process

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

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About Oakwood School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 14
• School size: Up to 150 pupils
• Age range: 3 to 14
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakwood School website
• Email address: jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakwood-school-ws9-9js

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