The posting
Are you an organised childcare or playwork professional seeking a leadership role where you can make a daily impact? At Sandhills Community Primary School, we are seeking an Extended Care Manager to lead our out-of-school provision, maintaining a safe, welcoming space where pupils can relax, socialise, and play.
Why This Role Matters
You will oversee the day-to-day organisation, safety, and play activities for our pupils outside normal school hours. Leading a dedicated team, you will ensure our provision helps children build positive relationships, practise social skills, and feel secure.
What You’ll Bring
- Leadership & Supervision: Experience in supervising staff or volunteers, ensuring clear direction and effective deployment.
- Childcare & Playwork Practice: Sound working knowledge of childcare standards, and healthy eating guidelines.
- Operational Administration: Competence in day-to-day administration, record-keeping, and resource purchasing within budget.
- Safeguarding Rigour: A thorough understanding of child protection and safeguarding procedures, maintaining safe and hygienic surroundings at all times.
- Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to build collaborative relationships with parents, carers, school staff, and local agencies.
The "Why Us" Difference
- A Values-Led Ethos: Our school values—Respect, Relationships, Responsibility, and Resilience—guide our staff and pupils every day.
- Professional Agency: You will have the autonomy to organise activities, adapt play spaces, and lead your team in a way that best serves our pupils.
- A Supportive Community: Work in an environment where staff contributions are recognised, valued, and celebrated.
The RLT Connection
Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust. As part of our wider team, you receive:
Professional Security: Access to a secure, government-backed pension scheme (LGPS) and recognition of continuous public sector service.
Shared Growth: Funded opportunities for continuous professional development and role-specific training[cite: 1, 2].
The Whole Person: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme support and a workplace culture that respects workload and personal wellbeing.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with our School Business Manager, Karen Crouch, about the role, prior to application, then please email [email protected] or telephone 01865 648690.
The River Learning Trust and Sandhills Community Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment for all staff, free from discrimination and harassment.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
