Lunchtime Assistant & Play Worker

Coast and Vale Learning Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 12,398,000 - 15,154,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

Blue Light Card access

Employee Assistance Programme

Gym discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Green car scheme

Job summary

Greenshaw Learning Trust, serving Waterwells Primary School, seeks a Lunchtime Assistant & Play Worker to support daily lunch and play activities. You will help prepare children for lunch, supervise handwashing, set up dining spaces, and foster safe, engaging outdoor play to encourage social, active, and creative activities.

The role involves assisting with meals, supervising play, and reporting incidents, with opportunities to undertake CPD in play work, first aid, and safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Willingness to attend play work CPD and to gain qualifications in play work, first-aid and safeguarding
• Experience of interacting with Primary age children
• Enjoy working with young people and a positive attitude towards diverse backgrounds
• Strong team work skills and being part of a team
• Friendly approachable manner
• Dependability with good time keeping
• Willingness to try new things

Responsibilities

• Assist children at lunch
• Set up, clean, pack down and store dining furniture
• Facilitate play opportunities and act as an ambassador for play
• Ensure a safe site for play for all children
• Ensure children visit the dining hall and eat their lunch
• Assess play areas and implement changes as required
• Assist with putting out and packing away play equipment
• Record and report incidents and first aid
• Provide care, support and advice to children during lunchtime
• Promote and safeguard welfare of all children in line with policies
• Attend team meetings and training for professional development

Skills

Experience with primary children

Teamwork

Friendly demeanor

Dependability

Willingness to learn

Education

General education

Job description

We are looking for somebody to undertake the combined role of Lunchtime Assistant & Play Worker.

Working as a member of the lunchtime team, you will ensure that our children have a meaningful lunchtime eating and play experience every day. Duties will include getting children ready for lunchtime, supervising handwashing, setting up tables and chairs for lunch, cleaning up afterwards and helping pupils with their meals. Outside, you will help to create a safe and stimulating outdoor environment that offers social, active and creative play experiences for all, and your emphasis will be to actively support and initiate play among our children.

Waterwells Primary is a two form entry Primary school with its own Pre-school, catering for children aged 3-11. At Waterwells Primary, we have high expectations, and the needs of our pupils are at the heart of all we do. Our aim is to provide a caring and safe environment for our children to become confident, caring, resilient and curious; we encourage them to achieve the very best that they can across every area of the curriculum.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.

Main responsibilities

• Assist children at lunch
• Set up, clean, pack down and store dining furniture
• Facilitate play opportunities and act as an ambassador for play
• Ensure that all of the children have a safe site for play
• Ensure that all children visit the dining hall and eat their lunch
• Assess play areas, implementing any changes required
• Assist with putting out and packing away play equipment
• Record and report incidents, i.e. site issues, behaviour, first aid
• Assess and deliver first aid to pupils (if trained). Assist with first aid reporting
• Offer care, support and advice to children during lunchtime
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of all children in accordance with the school's child protection and behaviour management policies
• Attend periodic team meetings and/or training for professional development

You will need

• Willingness to attend play work CPD and to gain qualifications in play work, first-aid and safeguarding
• Good general standard of education
• Experience of interacting with Primary age children
• To enjoy working with young people, and a positive and supportive attitude towards young people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds
• Strong team work skills and enjoy being part of a team
• Friendly approachable manner
• Dependability, with good time keeping
• Willingness to try new things

Benefits include

• Generous pension scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Green car schemeBeing part of a great team and expanding organisation