After School Club Play Worker - Casual

Playworker in After School Club - Casual Contract “Inspire through Creativity, Kindness and Adventure” Larkrise Primary School (part of River Learning Trust) Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxford. OX4 4AN Please contact the school on 01865721476 or by email office@larkriseprimary.org prior to application to discuss the role. Grade 4 £13.05- £13.26 per hour (+ 12.07% holiday allowance). Paid on a casual claim basis. Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to help realise our vision for Larkrise Primary School? We are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates with experience working with Nursery Children — a candidate who shares the school's values of Creativity, Kindness and Adventure. We are a school where 98% of parents would recommend the school to other parents and where 100% of staff feel that their work has a strong purpose and makes a positive difference in the lives of children and our families. Do you want a role where you will be making a significant difference in children’s lives and their future? Larkrise Primary School needs an excellent practitioner with vision and a passion for working with our children. Can you motivate and support children to learn? Can you work with the Larkrise team to provide an excellent education? If so, we can offer the right candidate enthusiastic children, passionate staff and committed PTA (Friends of Larkrise) and Governors. Our leaders are ambitious for the staff, children and wider school community and are committed to your continued professional development and learning. Our school is part of the River Learning Trust: Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. All of the schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to our shared principles. OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together. OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils. OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles. Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including wide ranging continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide. This role includes regulated activity relevant to children. Main purpose of role We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Playworker staff to work in our dynamic and diverse city school. What skills / experience are required The suitable candidate will either have experience as a playworker (either in a voluntary or paid role) or will have the necessary skills to develop in this role. They will be keen to work in a city school within a diverse catchment. What we can offer Are you looking for an exciting challenge? Would you like to work in a school with a new Mission, Vision and Values and striving for excellence? Do you want a role where you will be making a difference in children’s lives and their future? Larkrise Primary School needs an excellent Playworker with vision and a passion for working with children within primary education. Can you motivate and support children to learn? Can you work with the Larkrise team to provide an excellent education? If so, we can offer the right candidate enthusiastic children, passionate staff and committed PTA (Friends of Larkrise) and Governors. Our leaders are ambitious for the staff, children and wider school community and are committed to your continued professional development and learning. You will also have the opportunity to work in our childcare setting before and after school. The school is part of the growing River Learning Trust. The River Learning Trust can offer candidates exceptional professional and personal development opportunities. 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 several support staff and teachers who are gaining additional qualifications. To find out more about our Trust, visit http://www.riverlearningtrust.org/recruitment/. Our school is part of the River Learning Trust; our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools which demonstrate: all-round education, academic success, lifelong learning and strength of character sustainable continuous improvement; no school standing still all