Job Description

Play Worker with Spring Oscars

Location: Edinburgh (Haddington)

Salary: up to £24,504.25 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
  

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About Oscars

Step into a key role with a well-established supportive team at Oscars. We're proud to provide warm, friendly childcare for children aged 5 -14, with many of our clubs based within local primary schools, helping us build strong relationships with the communities we serve.

At Oscars, we focus on offering high quality out of school care that blends play, learning and fun. Our settings provide safe, welcoming environments where children can explore, grow, and thrive. Weight committed to supporting every child social, emotional and educational well-being.

You'll be joining a dedicated, experienced team who are passionate about creating engaging experiences and who value continuous professional development through our clear career pathway.

A bit about the role:

We're looking for a warm, energetic play work to help create a fun clear safe and nurturing environment for children before and after school. In this role, you'll bring play to life, planning and leading engaging activities, supporting children's learning through play, and ensuring every session feels welcoming and inclusive. Whether you're setting up a creative morning activity or winding down the day with games and laughter, you'll play a key part in making sure every child leaves happy, confident and excited to return.

Hours / Shifts

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

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 PVG 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 RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting the above Reference 13424

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.   

Don't meet every single requirement?  

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.   

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.   

Talent Pool: 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