Warning - This Vacancy is now Closed!

Play Leader - Part-time

Greenlands Primary School, Darenth

  • Ref:KCC886-2062-186S
  • Posted:05/07/2024
  • Pay:KR3 £23,337 FTE Actual Salary £3,999
  • Start Date:September 2024
  • App Close Date:31/08/2024 at 10:00
  • Interviews:To be Confirmed

Advert

Post Title: Play Leader

School: Greenlands Primary School

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 7.5 per week 38 weeks per year 

Working Pattern: 11.45a.m. – 1.15p.m.

Grade: Kent Range 3

Salary: £23,337 FTE - Actual Salary £3,999

Position Start Date: September 2024

Advert Closing Date (We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date): 31st August 2024

Interview Date: TBC

At Greenlands Primary School, we are looking for an enthusiastic, committed Play Leader to join our supportive, friendly school.  Working over the lunchtime period, your role will be to engage our children in a range of enriching playtime games and experiences, ensuring that positive lunchtimes are enjoyed by all.

 We are a small, family school where every child and staff member is treated as an individual and is welcomed as part of the Greenlands’ family. You will work with a supportive, caring team of staff who will ensure that you are able to achieve within your role.

Can you bring new ideas for how to raise the profile of play, physical activity, and social communication for our fabulous children?  Can you help deliver high quality and well supervised play activities during lunchtime? Are you a pro-active individual who can work collaboratively and flexibly within our team, build good working relationships with both children and adults and demonstrate a respectful and caring attitude towards all our children?

If you are then this is the role for you!

The successful candidate will support the active supervision of children in the dining and play areas to ensure the welfare and safety of children during school lunch breaks.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact the school office on 01474 703178.

 For further information about the school, please visit https:/www.greenlandsprimary.org.uk

We offer:

·        Local Government Pension Scheme.

·        Employee support services.

·        Effective CPD opportunities

·        Collaborative working with other schools within our Trust

 

Information about the school

Greenlands Primary School a place where every child has a champion!

Every child and member of staff becomes part of our Greenlands family, from the very first day they join us to the day they leave. Our overarching aim is to foster in every child a love of learning, a curiosity about their world and a desire to be the very best version of themselves.

We believe that positive relationships are at the heart of what we do. Through these relationships we nurture an understanding of each other, diversity and how these positively impact on society.

We promise to work tirelessly to champion the needs of every child in our care. We will ensure that they enjoy a stimulating and inclusive education, where learning is irresistible and exciting and offers new, enriching, fulfilling experiences, that open the doors to the world beyond our school.

Information about the trust

Cygnus Academies Trust is a growing family of schools that we nurture and support to be the best that we can be. Everyone in our family is our responsibility and we value how unique every individual and school is. We provide the tools, strategies and knowhow to enable everyone to flourish. Our aim is to give everyone in our family, irrespective of background, the learning and experiences needed to give them the life chances that were once the preserve of privilege.

Safer recruitment

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. In line with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted, and you are required to complete the application in full giving details of all employment, training and gaps in employment. Cygnus Academies Trust reserves the right to reject incomplete application forms and any consistencies or anomalies will be explored at, or prior to, interview.

Any offer of employment is subject to pre-employment checks including a satisfactory ‘Enhanced with Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and Barring Service. We will require two satisfactory references; one of which must be your line manager in your present or most recent employment. References will be requested prior to interview so please ensure that your referees are available to provide a reference.

Equal Opportunities

Cygnus Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and inclusion who welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. All people who work and study at our Trust have the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Additional Information

  • References will be requested for shortlisted applicants prior to interview.

  • Shortlisted applicants will be required to complete and return a Self-Disclosure form prior to interview.

  • Online Searches will be carried out on shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any concerns will be discussed with candidates at interview.

  • Further vetting checks including an enhanced DBS, incorporating a check of the Children’s Barred List, will be undertaken on provisional offer.

  • The Child Protection Policy can be found on the school website.

  • The Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found on the Trust website.

    This post is a customer-facing position and falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. The school has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

Job Contact Information

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.