Play Worker Spring Oscars SCOT Unqualified

Role: Ref 13692 – Play Worker with Spring Oscars 

Location: Edinburgh, (Haddington)

Salary: £24,521.29 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    

In the role of Play Worker (Unqualified), 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:  

• 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 [email protected] quoting the above Reference. 

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.  

Application Process 

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.   

  Want to know more about Spring and Oscars?  

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 See below for further information about working with us: 

Employee Reward Booklet 

Spring Early Years Career Pathway 

Job Description