Lunchtime Assistant & Play Worker

Waterwells Primary Academy; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Blue Light Card

Employee Assistance Programme

Gym discounts

Cycle to work

Green car scheme

Great team

Job summary

Waterwells Primary Academy is looking for a combined Lunchtime Assistant and Play Worker to support a safe, enjoyable lunch and play experience for all children. You will help prepare for lunch, supervise handwashing, set up dining furniture, assist with meals and clean up afterwards, and help create a positive outdoor play environment.

You will need experience with primary-aged children, a friendly, dependable manner, and a willingness to attend CPD in play work, first aid and safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Willingness to attend CPD and gain qualifications in play work, first aid, and safeguarding.
• Experience interacting with primary age children.
• Friendly, approachable and dependable with good time keeping.
• Strong teamwork and 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 ambassador for play.
• Ensure that all children have a safe site for play.
• Ensure all children visit dining hall and eat lunch.
• Assess play areas and implement changes.
• Assist with putting out and packing away play equipment.
• Record and report incidents, site issues, behaviour, first aid.
• Assist with first aid reporting if trained.
• Offer care, support and advice to children during lunchtime.
• Promote and safeguard welfare of all children per policies.
• Attend team meetings and training for professional development.

Skills

Willingness to CPD

Experience with primary children

Friendly dependable

Teamwork

Positive attitude

Time management

Education

Good 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