Breakfast and After School Club Assistant - Lynsted & Norton Primary School - Fixed Term

Lynsted & Norton Primary School , Near Sittingbourne

• Ref:KCC886-2233-85S
• Posted:16/06/2025
• Pay:KR3 - £8,075.33 pro rata (£23,557 FTE)
• Start Date:01/09/25
• App Close Date:27/06/2025 at 09:00
• Interviews:30/06/25

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Lynsted and Norton School Before and After-School Club (BASC) is a new exciting provision for primary school children. The ideal candidate will work as part of the Lynsted and Norton staff with children aged 4-11 years. We are currently recruiting support workers to work up to 15 hours a week (minimum 6 hours).

Working days would be Monday to Friday (term time only)

The working hours are 7:30am to 8:30am and 3:00pm-5:00pm. 

Ideally, we would prefer applicants who could work every day, Monday to Friday however, there is some flexibility with days and sessions.

Essential Requirements:  

• Fun, passionate and enthusiastic for working with children
• Knows how to create a fun and creative working environment for children
• Able to interact well with both children and parents.
• Excellent communication skills together with sufficient understanding and use of English to ensure the well-being of the children
• Ability to work on own initiative

Responsibilities and Duties

Main duties include:

• Preparing and delivering quality play opportunities within a safe and caring environment.
• Providing refreshments and ensuring that hygiene, health and safety standards are met.
• Administering first aid when necessary.
• Consulting with children and involving them in planning activities.
• Developing and maintaining good communication with all members of the club, with schools, and especially with parents.
• Undertaking appropriate and relevant training.
• Monitoring and maintaining a healthy, safe and secure working environment.

The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check along with other pre-employment checks which must be undertaken before the role is confirmed by the school.

Our Community MAT is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of pupils. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aim to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks.

We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

Applications to be made via Kent Teach.

For further information about the role, please contact Georgina Ingram via telephone on 01795 521362 or office@lynsted-norton.kent.sch.uk.

If your application is shortlisted, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search as part of our safer recruitment checks in line with KCSIE guidance. Any relevant information found with regards to a candidates suitability to work with children will be discussed at interview.

Information about the school

At Lynsted and Norton primary School we are passionate about learning.

We want all of our children to receive an exciting and varied curriculum where they can explore and build on their own strengths and interests in a supportive and nurturing environment while feeling valued for their individuality. We aim to lay a foundation of curiosity, tapping into children’s natural inquisitiveness about the world around them, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning, whilst understanding diversity and culture and accepting differences. We encourage everyone to be determined and to take pride in all that they do. We work towards building a community in which everyone feels valued and valuable.

We are a village Primary school with a reception and Year 1 cohort and 2 further mixed age classes. We aim to provide a school community where children feel secure, understand how to keep themselves safe and make the right choices with a clear moral purpose.

If you would like to join our team please apply via this website. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all appointments to Our Community Multi-Academy Trust are conditional on an enhanced DBS clearance. Our Community Multi Academy Trust comprises ten Kent primary schools.

Please call the school office if you would like to arrange a visit, or to find out more about this role.

We look forward to hearing from you.

All posts are subject to 2x satisfactory references in line with KCSIE, one of which must be your most recent employer and/or most recent childcare setting and an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. We may also seek references before interview.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Miss Georgie Ingram, Executive Headteacher
• Address:Lynsted And Norton Primary School, Lynsted Lane, Lynsted, Near Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0RL
• Telephone: 01795 521362
• Email: office@lynsted-norton.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Staff Benefits
• Safer Recruitment Policy
• Child Protection Policy
• Recruitment Pack including Job Description