Play worker

Date posted

29 April 2026

Pay

£12.71-£12.91 per hour

REFERENCES WILL BE REQUESTED AT INTERVIEW.

Relationships

a) Responsible to your Manager

b) Responsible for the children, their guardians (while on site) and your colleagues

c) Liaison with your Manager, the school teachers & TA’s, your keywork families, St Claire’s office.

Main Tasks of Job

To organise and run activities that engage and inspire the children

To support colleagues in their responsibilities as necessary.

To assist in school pick-ups as necessary.

To lead activities as directed.

To attend & participate in weekly staff team meetings & all other staff meetings as required

To help set up and tidy away effectively, keep stock rooms and cupboards organized and tidy.

To ensure the setting and resources are clean and hygienic.

To help with the preparation and clearing away of snack.

To monitor & deal with inappropriate behavior according to Club policy guidelines & those of the law.

To ensure that Club policies and the Early Years Foundation Stage are adhered to at all times.

To Keywork effectively, building & maintaining positive relationships with families, keeping tidy and

accurate records up to date, planning personalized play and evaluating it for further play opportunities.

To ensure the overall happiness and well-being of the children.

To put Handbooks & Training manual guidance into practice and meet required training needs

To interact positively, calmly & cheerfully with the children and HAVE FUN!!

You are expected to wear your uniform smartly and represent the company positively.

To follow our safeguarding procedures and be alert to signs and symptoms of possible abuse.

To follow and adhere to our e.safety policy and procedures.

Hours

Breakfast club runs 7:45 am - 9 am at all sites except St Peters.

After School Club runs 2.45-6 on all sites.

Holiday Club runs 8-6 through all the school holidays except the Christmas break and Bank Holidays at Winton and St Peter’s

Training meetings & weekly staff meetings are included in your monthly salary.

Wages aim to be paid on the 28th of each month, except December's which is paid the last day of term (this is early due to Christmas).

Any overtime or sickness, failure to attend meetings, lateness etc. will be added to or deducted from the monthly amount.

Bonuses depending on performance are assessed yearly in November.

Your monthly salary is based on annual hours as agreed at commencement of duties, meeting attendance and holiday entitlement divided by 12.

If you do need to call in sick, you must do so by 10.00 am for After School Club and 6 pm for Breakfast or Holiday Club.

Benefits

Discounted childcare

24/7 access to our Support Helpline, offering free & confidential support, advice or counselling to you and your immediate family.

Christmas bonus scheme.

Paid In House training and staff meetings.

Free external training & qualifications (subject to signing a Training Agreement).

Long service bonus of extra holiday

All members of Staff Job Description- Details

Give children appropriate help and support when needed

Respond sensitively to children’s verbal and non-verbal signals

Encourage independence and self-help under appropriate supervision

Speak cheerfully, calmly and positively to children unless it is necessary to do otherwise.

Interact with children in a way that encourages and develops verbal communication.

Reinforce positive behaviour and achievements.

Explain why certain actions/ behaviour etc. is unwelcome.

To challenge poor behaviour appropriately

Encourage children to listen and talk to each other about a variety of topics including their feelings and frustrations.

To respect children’s opinions.

Encourage children to support and co-operate with each other.

Encourage children to resolve problems between themselves.

Respond to the needs of individual children.

Be a positive role model.

Encourage children to join in planning activities, events, snack etc.

To support colleagues kindly, professionally and without bias

To welcome children and parents, and to spend time talking to parents about their child.

To be pro-active in promoting the Club.Everybody is expected to contribute to keeping the setting clean, tidy, organised and looking welcoming and attractive.

Personal Specification

Necessary

Suitable to work with children- no history of inappropriate interaction with children, good references, amenable personality, confident in challenging poor behaviour appropriately.

Enthusiastic- wants to work with children, wants to provide opportunities for them to enjoy their time with us, wants to extend their play opportunities imaginatively.

Willing to train- to participate fully in in-house training, to attend any external training required, to be able to feed back on training given and assist others in understanding aims & objectives.

Able to make a long term commitment to the Company