After School Club Assistant

After School Club Assistant – 5 days per week (10 hours per week) - Monday to Friday 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm (1 year fixed term contract in the first instance) – Stoneydown Park Primary, Walthamstow

 

Location:       E17 6JY – Pretoria Avenue, close to Blackhorse Road station

Phone:           0208 520 7026 or 020 8521 3839

Website:        http://www.stoneydownpark.org.uk

Job start:       As soon as possible

Salary:           £27,345 to £27,729 (April 2024 figures) FTE.  Actual salary £6,563 to £6,655 pro rata

Contract type:           5 days per week (Monday to Friday 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm, 10 hours per week)–

                                   1 year fixed term contract in the first instance

Deadline for applications:                Sunday 29^th June 2025 at 11.59pm

Shortlisting:                                       Monday 30^th June 2025

Lesson observations/interviews:     Candidates informed of interviews on 1^st July

 

Stoneydown Park

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in our very popular After School Club in a great school as one of our After School Club Assistants?

Stoneydown is a popular community school in Walthamstow with a well-established commitment to the Arts. We have a friendly, inclusive ethos married with high academic standards and are committed to achieving the very best for each child. We have good quality indoor and outdoor learning environments.  Come and visit our school and see for yourself; we’re confident you will want to join us if you do!

Our Ofsted report, 2023, stated: Pupils are welcoming and friendly here. Leaders have created a strong sense of community, which helps pupils to be happy and confident. Parents and carers said that they appreciate and value being a part of this community. One parent said, expressing the views of many, ‘It is a pleasure to be a parent at this school. I feel fully involved in my child’s learning.’ Pupils treat each other with respect and look out for one another. They are safe in school and they speak to a trusted adult if they have any worries. Typically, pupils behave sensibly and focus in class, without distraction.

Our leadership structure ensures that all teachers, at different stages of their careers, receive training and support in order to help them develop their expertise and subject knowledge. Teachers who train with us feel valued and supported. We have talented and committed teachers who are very willing to help each other, share good practice and work together as part of a team, making Stoneydown a positive place to work in for staff and children. We are committed to ensuring manageable workloads here at Stoneydown.

The Post

Stoneydown Park Primary School are seeking to appoint a friendly, enthusiastic, experienced After School Club Assistant to assistant the After School Club Leaders in our thriving club that is highly valued by our working parents as a safe and happy place where their children are well cared for. Our school has an Infant site and a Junior site and there is After School Club provision on both sites. The successful applicant will be an excellent communicator with children and parents. You should also be a team player who is flexible and able to multi-task in a calm, patient and professional manner.

The post holder will work across the two sites (100 meters apart) together and liaise closely with the After School Club Leader and Deputy Head Teacher.

The person we appoint will:

• Be enthusiastic and flexible
• Be a team player
• Be organised
• Be creative and use initiative
• Have experience of working in a school environmen for a minimum of 2 years

Safeguarding 

Stoneydown is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We comply with the Department for Education ‘Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education Settings guidance and all potential employees will undergo vigorous vetting checks to ensure their suitability including an enhanced DBS check.

Following KCSIE guidance 2023 an online search may be conducted on publicly available social media on shortlisted candidates ONLY prior to interview.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the successful applicant will be expected to undertake a satisfactory disclosure.

Other information

We aim to promote and ensure equality of opportunity and equal treatment for all.

The selection process will include a task(s) and an interview.

References will be requested for those short listed prior to interview.

All posts will be subject to a 6 – month probationary period.

 For further details regarding this vacancy, please visit the school website: http://www.stoneydownpark.org.uk or contact Tracey Palmer, Office Manager on 020 8520 7026 or 020 8521 3839 for further information about the school.

Please return all completed application forms to Tracey Palmer, Office Manager via email only to   recruitment@stoneydownpark.waltham.sch.uk 

Please note that CVs will not be considered and will automatically be disregarded.  A valid application form will need to be completed.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Adam Bennett

Headteacher

Stoneydown Park Primary

Pretoria Avenue

London

E17 6JY