Playworker - Wrap Around & Holiday club

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

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £25,614.00 - £26,016.00 Annually (FTE) Various hours available Term Time Only and/or Holiday Club

Playworker - Wrap Around & Holiday club job summary

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.

These are permanent contracts and can be a mixture of working both morning and afternoon shifts Monday to Friday or split to just Mornings or Afternoons.

Club working hours are:

• Breakfast Club 7.20am to 8.50am am Monday to Friday (7.5 hrs per week)
• After School Club 2.45pm to 6.00pm Monday to Friday (16.25 hrs per week)
• Holiday Club shifts are between 5.5 and 6.5 hours per day.

About Us:

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.

What you’ll bring:

• A positive and pro-active approach, taking an active role in supporting children, activities, and the day to day running of the club.
• Interesting opportunities to learn through play, experiences, and activities, which help children to explore, develop and progress.
• An ability to create and maintain a safe, secure, and fun environment for our children, planning appropriate activities that support their development needs and personal interests.
• Experience of or be studying to work in a Nursery, Pre-School, School or out of school club setting.
• A commitment to making a positive difference to the lives of young people.

You'll be great at

• Building and growing warm, positive professional relationships with children, colleagues, parents and carers.
• Staying calm under pressure.
• Creating a welcoming environment for Gledowls families.

You'll be expected to:

• To work positively and proactively as part of the Gledowls team, taking an active role in supporting children, activities and the day to day running of the club.
• Ensure the safety of children whilst in the club.

We promote equality, diversity and inclusion and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds. If this is the perfect role for you, please get in touch.

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 on-line.

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.

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.

About Gledhow Primary School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 663 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Gledhow Primary School website
• 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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