Lady Joanna Thornhill - United Kingdom - Folkestonegirls

Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Lady Joanna Thornhill Wrap-around Care service on the school's premises in Wye, for Wrap-around Care playworkers to join our team.

Lady Joanna Thornhill is scheduled to run its Wraparound Care service to children from our primary school, from 2: pm daily, term time. The service will be housed on site and benefits from our school facilities. We are looking for people who are passionate about all aspects of childcare and education, and able to bring new ideas and assist in running the School Services for pupils between the ages of 4 and 11. The successful candidate(s) will support the Wrap-around care service leader in supervising children attending the service, provide appropriate activities, encourage cooperation, secure their safety, monitor well-being and ensure good behaviour.

You will need to have a friendly, caring and dynamic approach to working with children.

The hours of work will be 5 days per week,2:30pm - 5:30pm, term time only (plus any relevant staff development days).

Key duties and responsibilities:

This role suits the creatives among us who enjoy providing appropriate activities for children in our Wrap Around Care service, encouraging co-operation, whilst also securing their safety, monitoring well-being and ensuring good behaviour.

• To maintain a safe and stimulating play environment and to assist with the developing opportunities which encourage children's social, physical, intellectual, creative and emotional development through play.
• Be responsible to the service leader and Headteacher
• To ensure the provision offers a safe and stimulating play environment.
• To assist with the planning preparing and delivery of activities, which meet children's individual and developmental needs.
• To work face to face with the children registered with the Service
• To supervise tea time refreshments for the children.
• To follow guidelines and procedures for safeguarding in accordance with Lady Joanna Thornhill Primary Schools' policies and procedures.
• To carry out any other duties, which will be seen to enhance the work of the Wrap-around Care service.

We particularly welcome applicants from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within our school workforce.

This is a rolling advertisement and the School reserves the right to close applications, should we find a suitable applicant prior to the closing date being met.

We do not use Agencies for our recruitment process.