Morning Club Assistant at Birch Hill Primary School and Nursery

The Wrap Around Care Assistant plays a vital role in providing a safe, engaging, and nurturing environment for children attending our breakfast club. You will help to deliver high‑quality activities, positive routines, and a welcoming atmosphere that supports pupils’ wellbeing outside of the school day.

This role ensures that every child feels happy, secure, and included during wrap‑around provision. Through effective supervision, creative planning, and close collaboration with colleagues and families, the Wrap Around Care Assistant contributes to positive behaviour, strong relationships, and a smooth start to each school day.  This role will be suporting the Wrap around care provider.

Key Responsibilities

Pupil Support and Engagement

• Supervise children during breakfast sessions, ensuring their safety and wellbeing at all times.
• Lead and support a range of play, creative, and recreational activities that promote social development and enjoyment.
• Build positive relationships with pupils to help them feel confident, included, and supported.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with the wider school staff to ensure consistent routines and expectations.
• Provide clear, supportive communication to parents and carers during drop‑off and collection times.
• Share relevant observations or concerns regarding pupil wellbeing, behaviour, or participation.

Organisation and Environment

• Help prepare resources, set up activities, and maintain a safe, tidy, and welcoming environment.
• Support the organisation of snacks and refreshments in line with health and safety and dietary requirements.
• Follow school and wrap around care provider policies and safeguarding procedures, ensuring accurate reporting and record keeping.

Professional Practice and Development

• Participate in staff training, including safeguarding and first aid, applying new learning to improve practice.
• Model positive behaviour, kindness, and professionalism at all times.
• Demonstrate reliability, initiative, and a commitment to providing high‑quality wrap‑around care.

The Ideal Candidate

Skills and Experience

• Experience working with children in a school, childcare, or activity‑based setting (desirable).
• Understanding of safeguarding, supervision, and basic behaviour management strategies.
• Ability to lead and support engaging activities suitable for primary‑aged children.

Approach and Mindset

• Warm, friendly, and approachable, with a child‑centred attitude.
• Calm, reliable, and able to respond sensitively to children’s needs.
• A positive team player who can also work independently when required.
• Committed to creating a safe, fun, and inclusive environment for all children.

The Wrap Around Care Assistant plays a vital role in providing a safe, engaging, and nurturing environment for children attending our breakfast and after‑school clubs. You will help to deliver high‑quality activities, positive routines, and a welcoming atmosphere that supports pupils’ wellbeing outside of the school day.

This role ensures that every child feels happy, secure, and included during wrap‑around provision. Through effective supervision, creative planning, and close collaboration with colleagues and families, the Wrap Around Care Assistant contributes to positive behaviour, strong relationships, and a smooth start and end to each school day. The role can be offered as a job share.

Key Responsibilities

Pupil Support and Engagement

• Supervise children during breakfast and/or after‑school sessions, ensuring their safety and wellbeing at all times.
• Lead and support a range of play, creative, and recreational activities that promote social development and enjoyment.
• Build positive relationships with pupils to help them feel confident, included, and supported.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with the wider school staff to ensure consistent routines and expectations.
• Provide clear, supportive communication to parents and carers during drop‑off and collection times.
• Share relevant observations or concerns regarding pupil wellbeing, behaviour, or participation.

Organisation and Environment

• Help prepare resources, set up activities, and maintain a safe, tidy, and welcoming environment.
• Support the organisation of snacks and refreshments in line with health and safety and dietary requirements.
• Follow school policies and safeguarding procedures, ensuring accurate reporting and record keeping.

Professional Practice and Development

• Participate in staff training, including safeguarding and first aid, applying new learning to improve practice.
• Model positive behaviour, kindness, and professionalism at all times.
• Demonstrate reliability, initiative, and a commitment to providing high‑quality wrap‑around care.

The Ideal Candidate

Skills and Experience

• Experience working with children in a school, childcare, or activity‑based setting (desirable).
• Understanding of safeguarding, supervision, and basic behaviour management strategies.
• Ability to lead and support engaging activities suitable for primary‑aged children.

Approach and Mindset

• Warm, friendly, and approachable, with a child‑centred attitude.
• Calm, reliable, and able to respond sensitively to children’s needs.
• A positive team player who can also work independently when required.
• Committed to creating a safe, fun, and inclusive environment for all children.

Birch Hill Primary School (BHP)

Birch Hill Primary School is a two-form entry community school serving the Birch Hill and Hanworth areas of Bracknell Forest. In addition to the main school, we offer a nursery and a Specialist Resource Provision for children with ASD and MLD.

Our motto, Learn, Believe, Achieve Together, underpins our commitment to high standards, strong partnerships with parents and a curriculum that builds confidence and aspiration.

The school offers a calm, purposeful working environment set within spacious grounds, supported by a dedicated and inclusive staff team.

About Maiden Erlegh Trust

Maiden Erlegh Trust is a growing community of schools across Berkshire and Oxfordshire, working together to deliver the best possible education for every child and young person. With around 800 staff and 5,000 students across eleven schools, including primary, secondary, special and alternative provision, we are proud of the diversity that shapes our expertise.

We Aim High, Be Inclusive and Work Together. These values drive our focus on high-quality education for all through collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement.

Through the Maiden Erlegh Institute, colleagues access high-quality professional learning at every stage of their career, supported by mentoring, leadership opportunities and our annual MET Staff Conference, a day that brings colleagues together to share best practice and learn from one another.

Joining our Trust means being part of a community that invests in people and values expertise, playing a direct role in shaping the lives and outcomes of young people.

Further information about working with us, and insight from colleagues across the Trust, can be found here on our website.

Benefits of Working with Maiden Erlegh Trust

Staff wellbeing and professional development are central to how we work. Colleagues benefit from a wide range of opportunities and schemes, including:

Pension Scheme – Generous employer contributions through the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme

Annual Leave – Generous entitlement, increasing with length of service

ME Day – One additional day’s leave each year for a significant personal event

Professional Development – Extensive CPD through the Maiden Erlegh Institute, annual Trust Conference and apprenticeship opportunities

Hybrid Working – Flexible working arrangements for eligible roles

Perkbox – Discounts, wellbeing resources and monthly perk points

Wellbeing and Health – Free flu vaccinations and eye tests (where eligible)

Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 support and discount schemes

Mental Health First Aid Support

Recognition and Community – Celebrating achievements and milestones across #TeamMET

Employee Referral Scheme

Working for our Trust means contributing to something larger by supporting the education and life chances of children and young people every day.

Additional Information

If you believe this is an environment where you can thrive, develop and make a meaningful contribution, please contact recruitment@maidenerleghtrust.org for an informal discussion.

If you are organised, compassionate and committed to improving outcomes for young people through strong attendance practice, we welcome your application.

Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as we reserve the right to close the advert and interview at any time.

Maiden Erlegh Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.