Extended Services Manager

Waltham Forest Council; Greater London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Training opportunities

Supportive trust culture

Job summary

London Borough Of Waltham Forest is seeking an experienced Extended Services Manager to oversee breakfast and tea time clubs across St Mary’s and St Margaret’s. You will lead staff rotas, bookings, income, budgets and supplier relations to ensure safe, high-quality sessions for primary pupils.

Working with headteachers, you will drive planning, safeguarding and engagement with parents, carers and school leaders, demonstrating strong organisational skills across two sites. Start ASAP.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of working with primary-aged children in a breakfast club, after-school club, playwork or childcare setting.
• Experience of leading, supervising and motivating a team of staff.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage provision across more than one site.
• A clear understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
• Excellent communication skills with children, parents, staff and senior leaders.
• The ability to work using your own initiative and to solve problems calmly.

Responsibilities

• Lead on planning and quality, staffing and rotas, bookings and income, budgets and purchasing, and communication with parents and carers.
• Ensure safeguarding, health and safety and ratio requirements are met consistently at both sites.
• Line manage the Extended Services Supervisors and their teams.
• Make sure that every session is safe, well-staffed, welcoming and full of enjoyable, purposeful activities for pupils.

Skills

Breakfast club experience

Team leadership

Organisational skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Communication skills

Initiative & problem solving

Job description

Employer: London Borough Of Waltham Forest

Salary: Actual pro rata salary if part-time - £22,579.98

Location: St Mary's, Brooke Rd, Walthamstow, E17 9HJ

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Part Time

Hours: 25 hours per week. 7.30am-9.00am and 3.00pm-6.30pm, Monday-Friday.

DBS Check: Enhanced

Closing Date: 09/11/2026 at 23:55

Reference: SCH/26/348597

Extended Services Manager

Position: Extended Services Manager (Breakfast and Tea Time Clubs)

Hours: 7.30am-9.00am and 3.00pm-6.30pm, Monday-Friday Term time only

Salary: Scale 20

Contract: Permanent

Start Date: ASAP

Location: St Mary's and St Margaret's

Genesis Education Trust, a Church of England Multi-Academy Trust, is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Extended Services Manager to lead our breakfast and tea time club provision across two of our primary schools St Mary's and St Margaret's

Working closely with the headteachers of both schools, you will have overall responsibility for the safe, high-quality and financially sustainable running of extended services on both sites. You will line manage the Extended Services Supervisors and their teams, making sure that every session is safe, well-staffed, welcoming and full of enjoyable, purposeful activities for our pupils.

You will lead on planning and quality, staffing and rotas, bookings and income, budgets and purchasing, and communication with parents and carers. You will also make sure that safeguarding, health and safety and ratio requirements are met consistently at both schools.

• Substantial experience of working with primary-aged children in a breakfast club, after-school club, playwork or childcare setting
• Experience of leading, supervising and motivating a team of staff
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage provision across more than one site
• A clear understanding of safeguarding and child protection
• Excellent communication skills with children, parents, staff and senior leaders
• The ability to work using your own initiative and to solve problems calmly

• Enthusiastic, well-behaved pupils
• A supportive Church of England trust with a strong, shared ethos
• Excellent career development and training opportunities
• Hardworking, motivated and positive colleagues across our schools

Genesis Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check with a children's barred list check, satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. In line with KCSIE, online searches may be carried out on shortlisted candidates. Because this role involves childcare outside school hours for children under 8, you will also be asked to confirm that you are not disqualified under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2018.

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy