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Play Worker Spring Oscars Unqualified

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Role: Play Worker Spring Oscars (Redwood Primary)
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire: £12.71 per hour
Contract/Hours:
Type: Casual – Offering flexible work opportunities that can fit around your home life while supporting the needs of the service.
Breakfast club: 07.30-08.15
After School Club: 15.10-18.00
Holiday Club: 07.30-17.30
Benefits:
- Paid annual leave
- Pension scheme
- Career progression
- Fantastic training opportunities
- Employee well-being support
- Employee discount portal with all your favourite brands
"I love working as a casual member of staff – I get to build my knowledge, my experience and work with a friendly and funny bunch of people staff and young people alike! It works around my family life and I choose when I work – what's not to like?” - Casual Worker
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A bit about the role
In the role of Play Worker Spring Oscars, you'll be an effective member of the out of School Club team delivering a flexible, high quality, education and care centred service before and after school and during the holidays that meets the needs of children 4-11 years of age and their families and the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
In the role of Play Worker, you'll be:
- Promoting good childcare practice in a professional, inclusive, and flexible manner.
- Planning and taking part in play and leisure activities for children.
- Caring for and supervising our children, making sure that they are safe and happy.
- Thoroughly enjoying your role and making each day count for the children in our care.
What we need from you
In the role of Play Worker (Unqualified), we're ideally looking for someone who has:
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- A real passion to work with children and make a difference.
- First Aid qualification or ability to achieve.
- Basic Food Hygiene Certificate or ability to achieve.
Why Spring Nurseries
Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is new adventure. At Spring Oscars, where more than a collection of settings, we are a family, dedicated to nurturing children to thrive and supporting staff through a clear career pathway.
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
Contact
If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk [RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk] quoting the above Reference 13407.
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
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If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.


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Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.
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We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.
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See below for further information about working with us:
- Employee Reward Booklet
- Spring Early Years Career Pathway
- [Job Description](https://actnforchildren.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/Employee_Recruitment_Information/Shared Documents/Job Description Library/Developments-Spring/Play Worker Spring Oscars JD.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=nGEA2J)
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