Wraparound and Holiday Club Playworker

Oreston Community Academy, Plymouth, Devon, PL9 7JY

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  14 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.65 Hourly

Wraparound and Holiday Club Playworker job summary

We currently require a Wraparound Care and Holiday Club Playworker, to support the needs of our young children. We are seeking to recruit a highly supportive, friendly, and creative Playworker. The person appointed would need the skills and qualities necessary to demonstrate consistently high levels of behaviour and a creative approach to developing a range of engaging activities for our Holiday Club from November 2025. Experience of working in a school setting would be beneficial.

This role is a fixed term contract requiring you to work some morning and after school shifts in out Lighthouse Club (17 hours a week), plus 20 days during the school holidays throughout 2025/2026 on selected days from 8am until 5.30pm.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this post.

For information about our child protection and safeguarding processes please visit:

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

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 Oreston Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 386 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oreston Community Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oreston-community-academy

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