Post Title: Play
Leader
School: Greenlands
Primary School
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Hours: 7.5 per week 38 weeks per year
Working Pattern: 11.45a.m.
– 1.15p.m.
Grade: Kent
Range 3
Salary: £23,337 FTE - Actual Salary £3,999
Position Start Date: September
2024
Advert Closing Date (We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date):
31st August 2024
Interview Date: TBC
At Greenlands Primary School, we are looking
for an enthusiastic, committed Play Leader to join our supportive,
friendly school. Working over the
lunchtime period, your role will be to engage our children in a range of
enriching playtime games and experiences, ensuring that positive lunchtimes are
enjoyed by all.
We are a small, family school where every child and staff member is treated as an individual and is welcomed as part of the Greenlands’ family. You will work with a supportive, caring team of staff who will ensure that you are able to achieve within your role.
Can you
bring new ideas for how to raise the profile of play, physical activity, and
social communication for our fabulous children? Can you help deliver high quality and well
supervised play activities during lunchtime? Are you a pro-active individual
who can work collaboratively and
flexibly within our team, build good working relationships with both children
and adults and demonstrate a respectful and caring attitude towards all our
children?
If you
are then this is the role for you!
The
successful candidate will support the active supervision of children in the
dining and play areas to ensure the welfare and safety of children during
school lunch breaks.
For an informal discussion
about the role please contact the school office on 01474 703178.
For further information
about the school, please visit https:/www.greenlandsprimary.org.uk
Cygnus Academies Trust
Greenlands is part of Cygnus Academies Trust who are a group of friendly, like-minded schools, working together in the best interest of all our children. Driven by a desire to collaborate at every level, with an emphasis on staff development and opportunities for all. Cygnus Academies Trust schools really are a fantastic place to work and learn.
We offer:
·
Local Government
Pension Scheme.
·
Employee
support services.
·
Effective
CPD opportunities
·
Collaborative
working with other schools within our Trust
Our approach is to allow all schools to retain and celebrate their uniqueness. While ensuring; great teaching and learning, strong leadership and management, effective local governance, curriculum expertise, visionary business and financial management.
For further information about the Trust, please visit www.cygnus.org.uk
Safer Recruitment
Cygnus Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting
the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. In line
with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted, and you are
required to complete the application in full giving details of all employment,
training and gaps in employment. Cygnus Academies Trust reserves the right to
reject incomplete application forms and any consistencies or anomalies will be
explored at, or prior to, interview. Any
offer of employment is subject to pre-employment checks including a
satisfactory ‘Enhanced with Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and
Barring Service. We will require two satisfactory references; one of
which must be your line manager in your present or most recent employment.
References will be requested prior to interview so please ensure that your
referees are available to provide a reference.
Equal Opportunities
Cygnus Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer
committed to diversity and inclusion who welcomes applications from all sectors
of the community. All people who work and study at our Trust have
the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and
not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender
reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity,
race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Additional Information
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References will be requested for
shortlisted applicants prior to interview.
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Shortlisted applicants will be
required to complete and return a Self-Disclosure form prior to interview.
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Online Searches will be carried
out on shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any concerns will be
discussed with candidates at interview.
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Further vetting checks including
an enhanced DBS, incorporating a check of the Children’s Barred List, will be
undertaken on provisional offer.
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The Child Protection Policy can be
found on the school website.
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The Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy
can be found on the Trust website.
This post is a customer-facing position and falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. The school has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.