Playworker

Teaching Vacancies; Holmfirth; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A local educational institution is seeking a playworker for their out of hours school provision. The successful candidate will assist in ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of pupils, while organizing and supporting play activities. Ideal applicants will have the ability to relate to children from diverse backgrounds and possess strong communication skills. This role offers annual salary increments, pension enrollment, and various employee benefits including training opportunities and flexible policies.

Benefits

Annual salary increments

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Enhanced occupational benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible family-friendly policies

Extensive CPD opportunities

Funding for training courses

28.5 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

Death in service benefit

Qualifications

• Experience working with children from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with children and staff.

Responsibilities

• Assist in securing health, safety, and welfare of pupils.
• Organise and support appropriate play activities.
• Encourage good behaviour according to school policies.

Skills

Good verbal communication

Ability to relate to children/young people

Organisational skills

Job description

Overview

We are seeking to appoint a playworker for our out of hours school provision at Scholes Junior and Infant School.

Responsibilities

The successful candidates will assist in securing the health, safety, welfare and good conduct of pupils, organising and supporting appropriate play activities, encouraging good behaviour in accordance with the practices and procedures of the school, is able to relate to children / young people from diverse backgrounds, have good verbal communication skills to be able to liaison with children / young people and other staff members.

What the school offers its staff

• Annual salary increments plus inflation linked increases.
• Automatic enrolment into a Teacher Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates.
• Enhanced occupational benefits (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave).
• Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to Health and Wellbeing services including, GP consultations, Private medical operations, Physiotherapy, Counselling and mindfulness, wellbeing clinics, nurse support services, chronic illness and cancer support, menopause support.
• Flexible family friendly policies from day one.
• Extensive CPD opportunities
• Funding of a wide range of accredited training courses and apprenticeships.
• A range of working patterns dependent upon the role.
• For employees on all year-round contracts, a minimum of 28.5 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service) holiday entitlement.
• Death in service benefit.

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.