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Holiday Play Scheme Leader Employment Contract UK

Name: Holiday Play Scheme Leader Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: child_day_care_holiday_play_scheme_leader_playworker_quality_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Set safe short-term holiday provision around enrolment, varied activities and clear daily leadership.

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This contract includes Lead daily scheme staffing and activities. Check bookings contacts health and collection details. Brief staff volunteers and venue users. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
Content owner: HRHeaven employment documentation team
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Job description

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Probation period

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

Before you create it

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When to use this contract

Maintain safe engaging holiday provision, coordinate coordinated temporary staff and activities, and complete child and scheme closure records.

Workplace context: Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering scheme dates site ages and bookings. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering staff volunteers ratios and induction. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering activities trips food and safeguarding. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering collection budgets incidents and closure. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering safeguarding.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The leader cannot exceed capacity, accept unauthorised volunteers, ignore ratios, approve unplanned trips or exercise undelegated formal HR powers. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

the scheme dates site and capacity
the registration booking and ratio rules
the staffing and volunteer authority
the trip health and safeguard procedures
the budget collection and closure process

Day-to-day operating brief

What Holiday Play Scheme Leader (Playworker) work looks like in practice

A Holiday Play Scheme Leader runs time-limited childcare or play provision during school breaks, often using temporary teams, hired premises and offsite activities. Terms should define scheme dates, age range, registration basis, bookings, staffing and ratios, induction, safeguarding, medical information, activity planning, trips, food, collection, late parents, behaviour support, premises checks, budgets, incidents and the close-down and return of records after the scheme.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Lead daily scheme staffing and activities.
Check bookings contacts health and collection details.
Brief staff volunteers and venue users.
Apply safeguard ratio trip and incident procedures.
Record attendance spending outcomes and closure.

A realistic working scenario

Unexpected staff absence would leave an offsite trip below its planned supervision. The leader revises or cancels the activity rather than relying on informal parent help.

Outputs to agree

safe engaging holiday provision
coordinated temporary staff and activities
complete child and scheme closure records

Records and evidence

Child booking contact and consent.
Rota ratio briefing and competence.
Activity trip risk and attendance.
Incident expense complaint and closure.
Child records.
Attendance records.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Nursery Manager, Room Leader, SENCO or Early Years Lead. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The leader cannot exceed capacity, accept unauthorised volunteers, ignore ratios, approve unplanned trips or exercise undelegated formal HR powers.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

Lead daily scheme staffing and activities.
Brief staff volunteers and venue users.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

Early-years record systems.
Learning observation tools.
Nursery communication systems.
Play and learning equipment.

Workplace context

Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

Training and certification

Employer-confirmed evidence of training required for Holiday Play Scheme Leader (Playworker) duties where applicable to the role.
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.

Contract priorities

scheme dates site ages and bookings
staff volunteers ratios and induction
activities trips food and safeguarding
collection budgets incidents and closure

Information the employer should prepare

the scheme dates site and capacity
the registration booking and ratio rules
the staffing and volunteer authority
the trip health and safeguard procedures
the budget collection and closure process

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Holiday Play Scheme Leader (Playworker) contract is built around

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Work setting

Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

Primary duties

Lead daily scheme staffing and activities.
Check bookings contacts health and collection details.
Brief staff volunteers and venue users.
Apply safeguard ratio trip and incident procedures.

Tools and training to confirm

Early-years record systems.
Learning observation tools.
Nursery communication systems.
Play and learning equipment.

Governance focus

Ofsted context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering scheme dates site ages and bookings. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering staff volunteers ratios and induction. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering activities trips food and safeguarding.

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Holiday Play Scheme Leader (Playworker) duties

Maintain safe engaging holiday provision, coordinate coordinated temporary staff and activities, and complete child and scheme closure records.

Lead daily scheme staffing and activities. Check bookings contacts health and collection details. Brief staff volunteers and venue users. Apply safeguard ratio trip and incident procedures. Record attendance spending outcomes and closure.

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What is added to the finished contract

The leader cannot exceed capacity, accept unauthorised volunteers, ignore ratios, approve unplanned trips or exercise undelegated formal HR powers.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering scheme dates site ages and bookings.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering staff volunteers ratios and induction.

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