Little Spires Wrap Around Care Lead in Swindon

• Little Spires Wrap Around Care
• Lead
• Responsible
• To: Head of Pre-Prep
• Start
• Date: Monday 2nd November 2026 Hours: Monday to Friday 3:15pm to 6pm, term time only
• Date: Friday 4th September 2026, interviews w/c Monday 7th September 2026

Main duties and responsibilities

• To ensure the safeguarding of children at all times.
• To provide a safe and stimulating environment for the children attending Little Spires with creative and appropriate play opportunities.
• To create a nurturing, calm and caring wrap around care service for our children catering for a range of interests and needs.
• To plan, prepare and deliver age and ability appropriate activities.
• To ensure that play equipment is properly used, maintained and stored.
• To ensure that areas used by Little Spires are kept organised, clean and tidy.
• To arrange and supervise the provision of refreshments as needed.
• To ensure that the arrival and departure of children is properly recorded.
• To be a point of contact with parents and carers.
• To ensure adequate supervision of the children at all times.
• To direct the use of other staff within Little Spires, such as the duty Gap student.
• To ensure that records of attendance are passed to the finance department for fee billing purposes.
• To undertake minor first aid duties.
• To be responsible for the intimate care of the children, including supporting them with toileting as required.
• Other responsibilities
• Carry out the work of this school to the best of your ability, displaying initiative and enthusiasm and recognising that its status as preparatory and pre-prep, boarding and day school, and also a choir school, places additional demands and responsibilities on staff who choose to work here.
• Do all you can, by the relationships that you build with pupils, staff, parents, and the wider community, to promote the caring ethos of the school and reflect its Christian foundation.
• Engage actively in the school appraisal process.
• Willingness to undertake CPD and complete essential training courses as directed by the school .
• Adhere to policies as set out in the staff operations handbook.
• Maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance and conduct.

Person Specification and Experience

• Experience
• Experience of working with young children, planning and delivering fun and engaging activities
• Qualifications
• Level 3 or above qualification, full and relevant for EYFS
• Experience of working with young children
• Paediatric First Aid qualification is desirable but we can provide training if required
• Skills
• Flexible approach to meet the needs of the role
• Adaptability
• Open to new ideas and approaches
• Strong team player
• Personal qualities
• Good sense of humour
• Calm under pressure
• Positive outlook
• Ability to use initiative
• Approachable
• Warm, kind and caring manner
• Good communication skills
• Experience of working with young children, planning and delivering fun and engaging activities, Level 3 or above qualification, full and relevant for EYFS
• Experience of working with young children
• Paediatric First Aid qualification is desirable but we can provide training if required
• Skills
• Flexible approach to meet the needs of the role
• Adaptability
• Open to new ideas and approaches
• Strong team player
• Personal qualities
• Good sense of humour
• Calm under pressure
• Positive outlook
• Ability to use initiative
• Approachable
• Warm, kind and caring manner
• Good communication skills
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