Midday Play Leader

Overview

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Education Phases: Primary;

Working Patterns: Part-Time;

Application Deadline: Thursday, 16th October 2025

Interview Date: 21/10/2025

Is a Shared Job: No

About us

We are looking for individuals with the following qualities:

• Enthusiastic and committed to engaging with students during lunchtime
• Able to work collaboratively with others
• Able to supervise students, ensuring that our high expectations on behaviour are maintained
• Able to take responsibility for ensuring the welfare and safety of students during lunchtime
• Committed to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
• Willing to promote Trust ethos and values

In return, as part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we can offer you:

• An Ofsted OUTSTANDING school (2013/2014)
• A friendly, supportive and professional team of staff
• A commitment to provide Continuing Professional Development

Wyndham SpencerAcademy is a forward-thinking school with a fully inclusive ethos. We work toour GREAT expectations and are committed to providing our enthusiastic and vibrant children with the highest standard of education in a safe learning environment rich with technology.

We offer fantastic CPD opportunities and strive to grow leadership skills in everyone.

Qualities we are looking for

• Going the extra mile to offer our children exciting and innovative learning experiences.
• Risk takers, research driven and reflective practitioners who embrace challenge.
• Excellent practitioners keen to develop their skills.
• Ability to passionately demonstrate flexible teaching strategies which incorporate mastery.
• Team members who are self-motivating.

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our school’s benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission, Vision and Values

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership. We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff. If you would like to discuss the role, please contact Mrs A John on 01332 571153 or email

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.

Closing date & Shortlisting for applications – Thursday 16 th October 2025, 12 noon

Interviews will take place on – Tuesday 21 st October 2025

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advertisement ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our EveryCandidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.

If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.

Safeguarding

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

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