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Play Worker

Play Worker

Cutteslowe Primary School

Oxford

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Salary:
Grade 4 £8.22 to £8.57 per hour
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Apply by:
24 September 2017

Job overview

                                          Play Worker

             Permanent - Term Time Only and/or During School Holidays

                                      Grade 4  £8.22 to £8.57 per hour 

                                 For hours please refer to the job Description  

Are you currently a Play Worker or aspire to work with children and are looking for an exciting challenge? Are you interested in developing your skills further to work with children? Cutteslowe Primary School needs an excellent Play Worker with vision and a passion for working with children within primary education to support and develop children’s play.

This is a key role within Cutteslowe Primary School, providing Play Worker support for children from ages 3 to 11 in our childcare provision. We have a number of opportunities to work on different days both in term time and in the school holidays. Please see the job description for further details. 

Do you have a proven track record of working effectively with children? Can you motivate and support children to play? If so, we can offer the right candidate enthusiastic children and staff, newly refurbished and expanded school buildings with extensive outdoor spaces and committed PTA and Governors.

The school is part of the River Learning Trust, which currently comprises of a number of secondary and primary schools and a SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training) provider. 

The River Learning Trust can offer candidates exceptional opportunities for professional and personal development. We pride ourselves on supporting staff to be highly successful, recognising that success comes in a wide variety of ways, creating a culture of continual improvement where we look to provide the best possible educational experience for all our children. We currently have a number of Teaching Assistants taking on additional qualifications, including pathways to teacher training.     

To find out more about this role, the schools and the Trust, please visit our website www.riverlearningtrust.org or go directly to http://www.cutteslowe.oxon.sch.uk/current-vacancies-1/ 

Application forms should be posted to the school or emailed to elsbeth.millar@cutteslowe.oxon.sch.uk

Closing date: 12 Noon on Monday 25th September 2017

Interview date: Thursday 28th September 2017

Attached documents

About Cutteslowe Primary School

At Cutteslowe, we believe in providing enriching experiences that inspire children and equip them for the challenges of the future.

The headteacher and his senior team have created a strong culture of learning across the school. Pupils and adults are keen to improve their skills and, as a result, pupils’ attainment is rising and the school has the capacity to improve further. Ofsted 2015

Senior leaders have successfully focused on raising pupils’ achievement and improving the quality of teaching so that it is usually good with examples of outstanding practice. Ofsted 2015

The central aims of our curriculum are to work in collaboration with families and the local community to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and to achieve; to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and prepare all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

The teaching of literacy, reading and mathematics is usually good across the school, and some is outstanding. Ofsted 2015

Our aim is to help all our pupils develop the skills needed to become successful learners, help prepare them for life in modern Britain and empower them to achieve success in the future.

Working for us

Are you an exceptional teacher or an outstanding member of support staff? We are always on the lookout for motivated and accomplished team members to join us. You’ll be joining an extremely friendly, well-motivated and enthusiastic staff determined to make our school officially outstanding as soon as possible. We can offer you:

  • A positive staff culture with extremely high expectations of work and behaviour
  • Well-behaved children
  • A well-functioning leadership team who views professional development as a priority
  • A friendly and well-motivated staff and an inclusive community in which you can flourish
  • The opportunity to continue your career working alongside fabulous teachers and teaching assistants.

About River Learning Trust

Cutteslowe Primary School is a member of River Learning Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust responsible for a number of schools and a school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) provider within Oxfordshire. We’re a Trust committed to the professional learning and development of staff with high-quality training in-school and through the Oxfordshire Teaching Schools Alliance.

As a school-led organisation, we are always keen to recruit and train the very best individuals who we hope will go on to become excellent teachers in our partnership of schools. We operate under the title, Oxfordshire Teacher Training and all the details of our programmes can be found at http://www.oxfordshireteachertraining.co.uk.

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