Out of School Club Assistant - Cambridge

About The Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Out of School Club Assistant to join our team at Longstanton Pre-schoolin Longstanton. Rated GOOD by Ofsted and 9.9 on Day Nurseries.

We are a happy and friendly pre-school that has been steadily growing over the last few years.  We have a beautiful building and grounds with wonderful links with Hatton Park Primary School.

The pre-school has one large purpose-built learning environment with a large entrance hall and office.  It has it’s owns garden area and daily access to the large school playground and wooded area.  Our children are at the heart of everything we do, and our aim is for every child to be happy, full of curiosity, good humour and ready to start their school life as lifelong learners.  We encourage the principles of the curiosity approach, forest school and play.

We offer a free parking space within the school for the Early Years Manager. Longstanton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles north-west of Cambridge city centre.  Longstanton is close to the guided bus with frequent daily services from Longstanton to Cambridge and St Ives along the busway.  There is also bus service links Longstanton and surrounding villages with Cambridge.

What we offer:
We are proud to be part of the Early Years Alliance family of early years settings. Founded over 60 years ago, the Alliance is an educational charity dedicated to supporting the delivery of quality early years education and care to children and families.

The Alliance prides itself on being a supportive workplace and offers significant benefits for our team members including:

• 100% discount on childcare and early education places (applicable to staff working in our early years settings)
• Extensive training and career progression planning, including access to our Learning Management System (LMS)
• The Alliance has invested in FAMLY reducing paperwork and giving you more time to focus on the children.
• A generous workplace pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, with additional annual leave for long service.
• Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well being
• Enhanced sickness pay and paid bereavement leave
• A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
• Vitality membership wellness and fitness app – including lots of great health benefits, rewards, telephone, and face to face counselling
• Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets
• A dedicated mental health First aider to support your mental well being

Job purpose:
As the Out of School Club Assistant, you will:

• To contribute to the planning of safe and stimulating childcare including collection of children from school and the safe delivery of children to parents/named carers.
• Be fully involved (where applicable) in all activities associated with the childcare provision and to support children’s participation.
• To work in partnership with the school and support children’s allocated homework.
• Ensure children input into, understand and adhere to the clubs’ rules for behaviour.
• To plan and supervise the provision of healthy food and refreshments.

Requirements:
Successful applicants for the Out of School Club Assistant position will need:

• To contribute to the planning of safe and stimulating childcare including collection of children from school and the safe delivery of children to parents/named carers.
• Be fully involved (where applicable) in all activities associated with the childcare provision and to support children’s participation.
• To work in partnership with the school and support children’s allocated homework.
• Ensure children input into, understand and adhere to the clubs rules for behaviour.
• To plan and supervise the provision of healthy food and refreshments
• Previous experience working with children between the ages of 4 to 11. 

Also, you will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check if your current certificate is not subscribed to the update service.

For the full list of duties and the requirements, please download the job description and person specification which accompanies this advert.

Hours per week: 15
Weeks per year: 39

Virtual interview date: TBC

Please note our virtual interviews take place via Microsoft Teams, so you may need to download this app prior to your interview.


About The Service
The Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and equal opportunities in employment. It is a requirement of all staff that they share this commitment and follow the prescribed policy and procedures to continuously promote a culture of safeguarding and equal opportunities across the whole organisation. 

If you would like to find out more about our setting, please go to Web Link to Setting: http://www.eyalliance.org.uk/longstanton-pre-school