School Club Assistant

Here at Dawn Until Dusk we are looking for a Qualified Playworker to join our Wrap Around Care team

**About us**

Dawn Until Dusk Ltd. Before, After School & Holiday Club provides high quality, fun, vibrant child centred and affordable out of school play provision for children at 18 schools in and around Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. At Dawn Until Dusk Ltd, we place the importance of a home from home environment in our settings, where children are encouraged to flourish through an exciting array of play opportunities and experiences.

As a Playworker within our setting, you will have the opportunity to lead a range of activities, including role play, arts and crafts, bouncy castle time, disco’s, visits and outings like when we go to feed the lambs and so so much more Your day to day role will be ever-changing, exciting and full of laughter. You and your team will have allocated time for admin related tasks, so that during the session your focus can be enjoying these activities and supporting children to engage and develop through the 16 play types.

**The Role**

You will create a safe, fun and fulfilling home from home environment for the children at Dawn Until Dusk, asking how their school day was, playing games and eating a snack before they go home for dinner. We care about our children and know them really well, and we hope you will love this job as much as we do

Staff retention is really important to us, making sure our team members can come to work every day looking forward to their shift in a positive, supportive clean environment. We have staff who have worked with us since 2014 and any new staff that join us now, we want to take care of you too

**Benefits**:
⦁ Childcare for staff

⦁ Excellent in-house training with accredited courses, opportunity to gain further qualifications, virtual learning and career progression opportunities.

⦁ Work at a setting locally to you to minimise travel costs

⦁ Lovely working environment with brilliant, hard working, like minded people.

⦁ Bonus schemes

⦁ Working with an employer who genuinely cares about you

**Setting Information**

**Essential Qualifications & Experience**:
⦁ Level 3 qualification in Childcare/ Early Years

⦁ Experience within a nursery/preschool/childminding environment

⦁ A willingness to undertake relevant training in the future

⦁ A passion for childcare and a genuine interest in child development.

**Key Responsibilities & Duties**:
⦁ As a Playworker, you will ensure every individual child’s needs are met, including supporting parents with any SEND needs.

⦁ Prioritise the safeguarding of children.

⦁ Speak up against practices that don’t support safeguarding or our core values.

⦁ Attend parents evening, open day events and relevant training sessions.

⦁ Build close relationships with parents and carers and report daily on their child’s time at preschool.

⦁ Take ownership of the observation, assessments and planning for your key children in line with EYFS and provide developmentally challenging next steps.

⦁ Remain up to date with our childcare policies and procedures.

⦁ Be a key player to ensure the setting receives excellent outcomes in internal audits and those of external authorities such as Ofsted, Environmental health ect

⦁ Ensure we encourage and praise children’s development and achievements.

We can't wait to welcome you to the team and begin the journey together

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 22.5 - 25 per week

**Salary**: £9.18-£11.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Primary school

**Experience**:

- Childcare: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location