Role: Play Worker Spring Oscars (Redwood Primary)
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Salary: £25,800 per annum, pro rata
Contract/Hours: Fixed term/Part Time – 27.5 hours per week (12 months)
Breakfast club: 07.30-08.15
After School Club: 15.10-18.00
Holiday Club: 07.30-17.30
Closing date: Midnight on the 25th of May 2026
Benefits (pro rata):
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A bit about the role
In the role of Play Worker Spring Oscars, you'll be an effective member of the out of School Club team delivering a flexible, high quality, education and care centred service before and after school and during the holidays that meets the needs of children 4-11 years of age and their families and the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
In the role of Play Worker, you'll be:
What we need from you
In the role of Play Worker (Unqualified), we're ideally looking for someone who has:
Why Spring Nurseries
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting the above Reference 13071.
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.
Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.
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See below for further information about working with us:
Spring Early Years Career Pathway