29 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    as soon as possible

  • Closing date

    29 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    30 October 2024

Job details

Job role

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Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) hourly rate is £11.98 - 12.18

Playworker job summary

In both of our clubs you will be supervising the children attending the wrap-a-round session. You will be expected to create a safe and secure environment for children where they can feel safe and happy in their play.

As a playworker, you will support the children in their play and help create activities that will engage them and help further their development. Through positive relationships, you will help children to behave well, communicate their needs and worries and foster the school values of Kindness, Respect and Responsibility.

It will be necessary on occasion to support children with their care needs and you must be willing to support children who need changing after an accident.

You will need to be able to support children with Special Educational Needs although guidance and training speicific to the individual child will be provided.

In both clubs, children have the opportunity to eat and you will be expected to promote high standards of hygiene and to also encourage good table manners.

Breakfast Club only

Only our Breakfast Club serves fresh food. You will not be expected to prepare or cook the main food items each day but you will be asked to help prepare simple foods such as toast and cereal. You will then be a part of the team that serves it up including buttering toast and spreading jams and honey on other foods such as pancakes and crumpets.

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 are not accepted.

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About Watling Lower School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 9
Education phase
Primary
School size
206 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 9

School location

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