After School Care Supervisor and Staff

Due to expansion of our team and opening hours from September 2024, we are now looking for new colleagues to either run, or help run, our After School Care for children ages 2-11 during term times. We are also looking for cover staff to help out short-term or on an ad hoc basis for After School Care.

The roles are from 4-6.30pm, Monday-Friday, term-time only. Applicants who can offer some of these days are also welcome to apply – please state which days on your application form.

You will look after the children who are staying after school, ensuring that they are relaxed and happy and engaging in gentle activities that you have organised, suitable for their ‘down time’. You will be actively engaged with the children in activities and will want to spend time chatting with them and encouraging their creativity and play. You will be based in the library with access to an immediate outside area and After School Care resources and will have a budget for developing activities. You will offer children snacks and drinks prepared by the kitchen and encourage good manners when eating. You will receive children from their class teachers, or from after school clubs, signing them in to After School Care, and will hand them over personally to parents when they come to collect them.

Qualifications/Experience

• At least L3 in a relevant area for the supervisor role; L2 in a relevant area for staff roles;
• Paediatric first aid certificate;
• Ability to complete food hygiene qualification if not a current holder;

Person Specification

• Clear rapport with children;
• Proactive in engaging with children;
• Excited and able to organise suitable activities for children, both indoors and outside;
• Kind, honest, fair;
• Collaborative, conversational, friendly;
• Energetic, happy, creative;
• Able to liaise with parents and colleagues appropriately;
• Understands to ensure safeguarding concerns are passed directly to the DSL;
• Ability to record attendance digitally (training and support given)

How to Apply

Applications are on the school’s application form, which can be found on the school’s website: https://littlegarth.org/vacancies

Any questions on the role should, in the first instance, be directed to recruitment@littlegarth.org; we regret that we are unable to offer tours of the school in advance of the interview dates; a tour is included on the interview day for short-listed applicants.

Closing date for applications: 8 May 2024, midday

Interviews: W/C 13 May 2024

Littlegarth School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with current and past employers, online searches, and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).