Wraparound Care Manager - Part-time

Bishops Down Primary and Nursery School, Tunbridge Wells

Ref:KCC886-2490-237S
Posted:07/01/2024
Pay:Pro Rata of KR9 (£32,485 FTE) - part time hours
Start Date:7th April 2025
App Close Date:28/02/2025 at 10:00
Interviews:To be advised

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Wraparound Care Manager

Are you looking for a new leadership role in childcare? Do you enjoy being able to design your own timetable of engaging, creative activities for children from nursery age to year 6? If you do, then we have a vacancy for a manager in our afterschool provision that may be exactly what you are looking for. Our setting is large, attractive and well resourced, and the role itself has huge potential for development.

We require an enthusiastic, creative, person to work in our school, as a Wraparound Care Manager. With a relevant childcare qualification at L3 or higher, you will be responsible for planning and managing our Holiday 'Beehive Club' for our Nursery to Year 6 pupils and external children during school holidays. You will ensure the provision of high-quality care and a comprehensive range of appropriate stimulating and creative activities, sports, storytelling and physical play appropriate to the needs and interests of the children.

Salary: Kent Range 9 - pro rata £18,656 (£16.83 per hour)

Hours: School Holidays only

February half-term, Easter break, May half-term, 4 weeks of the Summer holidays and October half term week - 21.25 hours per week. Hours to be split across the days, to be discussed at interview.

Skills, Attributes and Experience

Essential

The following skills, attributes and experience are essential in the undertaking of this role:

A relevant qualification at L3 or higher
Experience within either childcare or a school
Experience of administration
Experience of working in a supervisory or management capacity
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work on own initiative, using judgement and common sense
Satisfactory DBS Clearance
Appropriate child protection training
A warm, friendly approach

Desirable

The following skills, attributes and experience are desirable in the undertaking of this role:

Current Paediatric First Aid Certificate
Food Hygiene Certificate
At least 2 years’ experience of working in a childcare setting
Experience of working within a play-based setting
Designated Safeguarding Lead for the provision

Informal visits to the school are recommended. We would love to meet you and have a chat and give you a tour prior to applying. Please get in touch on 01892 520114.

We reserve the right to interview and appoint early.

Bishops Down is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our pupils. This post is sjubject to a full DBS check.

Information about the school

Bishops Down Primary and Nursery School is an inclusive, non-denominational school working in partnership with the Tunbridge Wells Primary Schools Collaborative Trust. The school was built in 1967 and is situated on the western edge of Tunbridge Wells, with extensive grounds, including two fields, a pond, a hard surface playground and woodland area.

We have 200 pupils in the primary and nursery classes. We are an innovative school with an Art Studio, a Forest School led by the Kent Hight Weald Partnership and strong links with a number of local secondary schools to extend our science and MFL provision. We also have a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) designation for 7 children with physical disabilities. We have 1:1 dedicated trained staff who work with these children and we are looking for a candidate to join this strong team. We provide in-school SEN training as well as training from external professionals, who work closely with our team.

We run Wrap Around Care at the beginning of the day and after school for our school and nursery children and during the holidays we run a holiday club for all children in the community.

All those in our school community strive to provide an environment where children are actively encouraged to reach their full potential in all areas of development. Our teachers believe that every child matters and they work to provide high quality teaching which meets the needs of every pupil. As a result, our children become curious, engaged students, who listen and question well and learn in an environment of kindness, responsibility and respect. These values are underpinned in the school's ASPIRE values.

Please visit our school website at www.bishops-down.kent.sch.uk

Our staff have high expectations of pupils, in their work and in the way they interact with others. Simply put, we expect children to work to the best of their ability, as well as behave in a polite and responsible manner at all times. This in turn creates a nurturing environment for all and encourages a love of learning.

Job Contact Information

Name:Mrs Jo Sheldon, Personnel Officer
Address:Rydal Drive, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9SU
Telephone: (01892) 520114
Email: office@bishops-down.kent.sch.uk

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