After School Club Assistant

Start - September 2026

After School Club Working Hours 2:45/3:00pm to 6:00pm (to be confirmed at interview)

We have an exciting opportunity for an After School Club Assistant to join the team at Eastwick School, to support the manager in all aspects of running the club to include planning, supporting activities, liaising with parents and carers and ensuring good care and safety at all times.

Key Responsibilities

• To work together as a team to meet the needs and interests of the children in our care.
• To ensure that the children's needs are the priority.
• To address any concerns from staff, parents or carers, dealing with them appropriately.
• To work alongside staff members to ensure that general tasks are completed at the end of sessions, ensuring that the building is left clean and organised.

THPT is also able to offer:

• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation
• A fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions
• Full access to the Employee Assistance Programme

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Safeguarding and Further Information

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointm