Wrap Around Care Deputy Manager
Ridgeway Primary School, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 0EQ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Hours: Monday to Friday 7.15 am – 8.45 am and 2.30 pm – 6.30 pm plus 1 hour admin 28.5 hours (Term time only and 4 training days - 45 weeks per year)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary Range – NJC Grade 5 (points 13 – 15) £31,986 - £33,987 (Pro-rata)
Pay scale
- NJC Grade 5 (points 13 – 15)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience
- At least 3 years’ experience of working in a play, childcare, extended services, or school setting.
- Planning and delivering creative play opportunities.
- Introducing and implementing change – an example where you have shown initiative and followed through to delivery.
- Involving children in shaping services and making decisions – responding to their views.
- Working in partnership with other colleagues/ agencies.
Essential
- Experience of deputising, or acting in a management role, in a play, childcare, extended services, or school setting.
- Supervision of staff and effective day-to-day management.
Desirable
Qualifications/Training
- Minimum required is a level 3 qualification in childcare or playwork or other relevant professional qualification.
- Evidence of continuing professional development in childcare, play and out of schools services First Aid qualification
Essential
- Food Hygiene qualification/training.
Desirable
Knowledge/Skills
- Ability to lead a small team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge and understanding of children’s age and stage of development.
- Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children
- Ability to work in partnership with parents, teachers, health, other childcare providers, youth, social care, community professionals and organisations.
- Ability to work flexibly and have an open and flexible attitude.
- Excellent communication and interaction skills (written and oral) with children and adults and the ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
- Ability to create an inspirational and stimulating child- centred play and care environment.
Essential
Equal Opportunities
- Commitment to the implementation of the school's
policies relating to equal opportunities, special educational needs and safeguarding of children.
Essential
Continuing Professional Development
- Willingness to undertake additional training / staff development as appropriate.
- Ability to reflect on your own professional practice.
Essential
Safeguarding of children
- To work in a way which promotes the safety and well-being of children.
Essential
What the school offers its staff
We are committed to staff development and you will receive a full induction programme and ongoing CPD.
Further information about the job
Purpose of the job:
To support the Wrap Around Care Manager with leading the day to day organisation of the Wrap Around Care provision at Ridgeway Primary School, providing high standards of care and play opportunities for children between the ages of 4- 11 years old, in a safe and secure environment.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Delivering the Wrap Around Care Provision (Before and After School Clubs)
1. To support the Manager with the leadership and development of the day-to-day management and organisation of the Wrap Around Care provision.
2. To supervise and motivate a team of Play Workers to deliver high quality creative play opportunities in a safe and caring environment, directing the work of staff to ensure an effective service.
3. Work with all staff to ensure and provide care, play opportunities and activities in a homely, nurturing, and safe environment, with regard to the individual development needs of the children.
4. To plan, and supervise the delivery of, play activities to ensure varied and exciting play opportunities are provided on a daily basis.
5. To creatively plan for ways to develop new play opportunities to enhance the service, liaising with the Manager about how plans will impact resources, the service budget and staff.
6. To build effective relationships with all children and their families and to support the manager with day-to-day communications with families, including reporting behaviour and/or health and safety incidents etc.
7. Liaise with other school staff (including class teachers, teaching assistants, the SENCO) with regard to the needs of the children who attend the club.
8. To support the manager with day-to-day communications with families to encourage their involvement and support of the Before and After School Club.
9. To support the manager with the distribution of staff across the service to ensure suitable staff-to-child ratios, moving staff and stepping in to support as required (e.g. in the event of staff absence).
Management and Administration
8. Uphold and implement all policies and procedures relating to the Wrap Around Care provision.
9. Maintain all records relating to the management of the group, ensuring confidentiality and data protection of the children and their families in order to be compliant with GDPR.
10. To ensure accurate day to day administration and record keeping, including (but not limited to) records of attendance, health and safety and food hygiene.
11. Develop professional working relationships with the school, all relevant professionals and authorities, including the local authority and OFSTED.
12. Work in partnership with the school to provide the Wrap Around Care Provision.
13. Maintaining working relationships with other site users (particularly the Business Manager, Headship Team and site manager/caretakers)
14. To ensure risk assessments and procedures are followed at all times, so that high standards of safety and hygiene are maintained throughout the Wrap Around Care service.
15. Have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and follow the child protection procedures adopted by the Local Authority and the school’s safeguarding policy.
16. To supervise staff and ensure that all staff work within the policies, guidance and procedures of the schools’ policies.
17. To carry out any other duties which will be seen to enhance the work of the Wrap Around Care service.
Staff
18. To support the manager with the day-to-day organisation and logistics of the Wrap Around Care service, including setting, and ensuring staff adhere to, rotas and timetables.
19. Take responsibility for personal professional development, including participation in own annual appraisal, any necessary training and attending any relevant meetings to keep
a. abreast of all current issues relating to providing this service.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ridgeway Primary School and Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children. This post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check and references. Promoting equality and diversity.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ridgeway Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 642 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ridgeway Primary School website
- Email address
- office@ridgeway.croydon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02086578063
We are delighted to welcome you to our nurturing school where children are at the heart of everything we do. From our strategic decision-making through to teaching and learning, we strive to fulfil our ethos of nurturing every child for lifelong success.
At Ridgeway, staff prioritise getting to know each individual child and building strong relationships with every family, so that children are fully included and well-supported both academically and pastorally. We offer a rich and deep curriculum, which develops a wide range of skills, knowledge and interests in our children and gives them the tools needed to be happy and successful in life.
Arranging a visit to Ridgeway Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@ridgeway.croydon.sch.uk.
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