Play Worker Spring Oscars SCOT

Job Description

Role: Ref 13560 – Play Worker with Spring Oscars Location: Edinburgh, (Canaan Lane Primary) Salary: £24,500 per annum Contract/Hours: Permanent Part Time – 31.25 hours per week Benefits:

• 20 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• Free childcare in our breakfast and after school clubs, with 50% discount in our holiday clubs
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers’ discounts

We’re thrilled that you’re considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we’ll tell you what you need to know

About Oscars

Come and work in a key role with the wonderful growing team at Oscars, where our new management team encourage and support progression on our career pathway.

We offer warm and friendly childcare for children aged 5 to 14 years. Many of our sites are located within the local primary schools fostering close links with the surrounding community.

Our aim is to provide quality out of school childcare to children. We offer play and educational opportunities in a safe welcoming environment focusing on the social and educational welfare of each child. We are proud of our highly qualified and dedicated team who are passionate about nurturing children and promoting their well-being.

Hours / Shifts

For a Full Time Play Worker, the hours would be Breakfast Club and After School Club, with flexible administration time to create your full working week. The club shifts are:

Breakfast Club – Monday to Friday from 7.15am to 9am

After School Club – Monday to Thursday from 2pm to 6pm, and Friday from 11.30am to 6pm

We can also offer Part Time and Casual roles.

What you’ll be doing

• 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

• A real passion to work with children and make a difference.
• First Aid qualification or ability to achieve.
• Enhanced DBS Disclosure Certificate or ability to achieve.
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate or ability to achieve.

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 quoting the above Reference.

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 arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore, all applicants are expected tohaveanunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguarding best-practice.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

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• Spring Early Years Career Pathway
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