Before and After School Club Playworker Apprentice
ST MARY'S C OF E (AIDED) PRIMARY SCHOOL CHESSINGTON
CHESSINGTON (KT9 2DH)
Closes in 24 days (Monday 17 November 2025)
Posted on 23 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Level 2 Playworker apprenticeship with a primary school in Chessington, where you will assist with organising and delivering a variety of stimulating activities, creative games and much more.
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Playworker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday 7:30am - 8:45am and 3:20pm - 6pm and Fridays 7:30am - 8:45am and 3:20pm - 4:15pm
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- To organise and deliver a variety of stimulating activities, creative games and outdoor experiences appropriate to the children’s age and development stages
- Motivate and encourage the children to participate in activities and explore and create their own activities
- Setting up play areas, providing a variety of play materials, and ensuring the environment is safe and stimulating for children
- Supporting the positive behaviour of pupils, ensuring an appropriate level of behaviour at all times in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy
- Building positive relationships with children, their families, and other professionals involved in their care
- Providing basic first aid or seeking help from a designated first aider and ensuring that any incident is properly recorded
- To keep attendance records of children using the clubs
- Ensuring the safety and well-being of children and adhering to safeguarding policies and procedures
- To provide and prepare safe nutritional snacks for children, taking into account food allergies /dietary requirements
- To attend training as agreed with the Before and After School Club Supervisor to support your development
- Ensure a clean, tidy environment conducive to fostering good health and safety practice
- Support and uphold the Christian ethos of the school
Where you'll work
CHURCH LANE
CHESSINGTON
KT9 2DH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Training course
Playworker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Observe and reflect on play behaviours.
- Communicate sensitively using relevant language and behaviour.
- Promote diversity and inclusion in Playwork practice.
- Identify ways to remove barriers which can prevent some children and young people playing.
- Undertake reflective observations to improve own practice and the quality of the provision for children and young people.
- Contribute to play audits.
- Promote the value and benefits of play for all children and young people.
- Assist with planning, creating and identifying loose parts to encourage and inspire sustainable practices, including recycling, reusing, reducing and repairing.
- Recognise the benefits of risk taking in play and contribute to dynamic risk-benefit assessment.
- Recognise that children and young people communicate with a range of different types of behaviour and may need Playworker support.
- Support children and young people to understand and manage their emotions, feelings and actions.
- Manage interactions with parents/caregivers professionally.
- Recognise the importance of respecting professional boundaries when lone working or conducting intimate care with children and young people and using social media with children, young people and families.
- Contribute to health and safety checks.
- Follow emergency incidents or common illness/infections policies and procedures, administering first aid and completing records when required.
- Use active listening and communication techniques when interacting with children and young people playing, identifying any potential concerns if they occur.
- Contribute to recording and reporting procedures as required by the play setting.
- Contribute to administrative and financial record keeping.
- Promote healthy eating and an active lifestyle, ensuring specific dietary and cultural needs are met.
- Maintain a clean environment according to local and national policies and procedures.
- Contribute to ensuring security arrangements are followed, such as children’s arrival and departures from the setting.
- Work as part of a team to support and supervise children and young people on off-site trips, complying with formal risk assessment of venues visited.
- Apply Playwork approaches in own role, incorporating new and emerging themes.
- Reflect on own practice to create a personal development plan with supervisor.
- Recognise the boundaries of own self and other Playworkers’ interaction with children, and when it is necessary to report incidents to the appropriate safeguarding lead and Local Authority Designated Officer – LADO if appropriate when a Playworkers’ behaviour towards a child may pose a risk of harm.
- Apply the play work approach depending on the individual need.
- Observe and reflect on play behaviours.
- Communicate sensitively using relevant language and behaviour.
- Promote diversity and inclusion in Playwork practice.
- Identify ways to remove barriers which can prevent some children and young people playing.
- Undertake reflective observations to improve own practice and the quality of the provision for children and young people.
- Contribute to play audits.
- Promote the value and benefits of play for all children and young people.
- Assist with planning, creating and identifying loose parts to encourage and inspire sustainable practices, including recycling, reusing, reducing and repairing.
- Recognise the benefits of risk taking in play and contribute to dynamic risk-benefit assessment.
- Recognise that children and young people communicate with a range of different types of behaviour and may need Playworker support.
- Support children and young people to understand and manage their emotions, feelings and actions.
- Manage interactions with parents/caregivers professionally.
- Recognise the importance of respecting professional boundaries when lone working or conducting intimate care with children and young people and using social media with children, young people and families.
- Contribute to health and safety checks.
- Follow emergency incidents or common illness/infections policies and procedures, administering first aid and completing records when required.
- Use active listening and communication techniques when interacting with children and young people playing, identifying any potential concerns if they occur.
- Contribute to recording and reporting procedures as required by the play setting.
- Contribute to administrative and financial record keeping.
- Promote healthy eating and an active lifestyle, ensuring specific dietary and cultural needs are met.
- Maintain a clean environment according to local and national policies and procedures.
- Contribute to ensuring security arrangements are followed, such as children’s arrival and departures from the setting.
- Work as part of a team to support and supervise children and young people on off-site trips, complying with formal risk assessment of venues visited.
- Apply Playwork approaches in own role, incorporating new and emerging themes.
- Reflect on own practice to create a personal development plan with supervisor.
- Recognise the boundaries of own self and other Playworkers’ interaction with children, and when it is necessary to report incidents to the appropriate safeguarding lead and Local Authority Designated Officer – LADO if appropriate when a Playworkers’ behaviour towards a child may pose a risk of harm.
- Apply the play work approach depending on the individual need.
Training schedule
Playworker Level 2.
This will take place at home, the workplace or Twickenham Training Centre.
This will be one day per week.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
About this employer
Primary school in Chessington
After this apprenticeship
Early Years Educator, Teaching Assistant or Learning Support Assistant.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348104.
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Closes in 24 days (Monday 17 November 2025)
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