Lunchtime Supervisor ( LTSA )

Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy; Milnsbridge; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy is seeking a Lunchtime Supervisor to oversee pupils during the 11:30am–1:15pm break. You will supervise indoor and outdoor areas, support dining activities, and promote positive behaviour while ensuring safety and welfare.

The role requires good communication, patience, and the ability to work flexibly within term time. Training and safeguarding duties are part of the responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children/young people.
• Experience of encouraging relationships between children/young people.
• Willingness to undertake further training/qualifications.
• Basic Health and Safety awareness.
• Ability to relate to children/young people from diverse backgrounds.
• Good verbal communication to liaise with children/young people and staff.
• Ability to react positively to difficult situations among children.
• Maintain calm, patient, and consistent messages.
• Read and understand simple verbal and written instructions.
• Flexible, reliable, and a team player.
• Willing to work flexibly within hours, including evenings.
• Able and willing to travel to meet role needs.
• Working knowledge of relevant policies and codes of practice.
• Ability to work with children exhibiting behaviour difficulties (Desirable).
• First Aid Qualification Desirable.

Responsibilities

• Supervise indoor and outdoor pupil areas during lunchtime.
• Monitor activity areas, corridors, toilets, and classrooms as required.
• Supervise pupils eating meals in dining areas and handle spillages.
• Oversee queues entering and leaving dining areas.
• Provide personal care to pupils as appropriate.
• Assist in feeding pupils unable to feed themselves when needed.
• Encourage positive behaviour per the school's policy and handle incidents.
• Establish good relationships with pupils; model appropriate conduct.
• Promote understanding of actions within Health and Safety guidelines.
• Support positive behaviour practices and health and safety.
• Report incidents via CPOMS to teachers and senior staff.
• Encourage good personal hygiene and tidy spaces.
• Promote positive relationships between pupils and adults.
• Organise distribution/collection of lunchtime equipment.
• Encourage play, games, and physical activity under supervision.
• Develop social skills, manners, kindness, respect and trust.
• Liaise with kitchen staff regarding lunchtime supervision.
• Support safeguarding responsibilities; follow school policies.
• Contribute to ongoing safeguarding and policy updates.

Job description

About this Role

We are looking for outstanding Lunchtime Supervisors to work in school. The working hours are 8.75 hours per week - 11.30am - 1.15pm. Term time only.

Overall purpose and description of the role

To work as part of a team, to be responsible for the supervision of pupils on the school site throughout the midday break (the interval between the close of morning school and the re-commencement of school in the afternoon). To assist in securing the health, safety, welfare and conduct of all our pupils. To pro-actively support activities and correct behaviour choices in accordance with the school’s Behaviour Policy and procedures of the school.

Key Responsibilities & specifications

1. 1. To supervise areas, indoors and outdoors, where pupils congregate during lunchtime, ensuring the safety, welfare, well-being of pupils & maintenance of good discipline.
2. 2. Taking account of relevant practices and procedures, to supervise and monitor activity areas, corridors, toilets, classrooms etc as required.
3. 3. To pro-actively supervise pupils eating their meal on school premises, in specified areas set aside for dining purposes which includes issues such as dealing with spillages.
4. 4. To pro-actively supervise lines and queues waiting to enter/ exit specified dining areas.
5. 5. To undertake the personal care of pupils including toileting, dressing, sickness, as appropriate.
6. 6. Where required, to assist in the bringing food to, and feeding children unable to feed themselves
7. 7. To encourage positive behaviour through implementation of school’s behaviour policies and practice and dealing with incidents as directed.
8. 8. To establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs
9. 9. To encourage pupils’ understanding and knowledge of the impact of their actions within the remit of Health and Safety.
10. 10. Assist within the parameters of school positive behaviour practices and procedures. Assist as appropriate to promote the maintenance of Health and Safety.
11. 11. To provide information via CPOM’s of incidents or occurrences to teachers & senior staff.
12. 12. To encourage pupils to maintain personal hygiene standards (e.g. washing hands after toileting)
13. 13. To encourage pupils to leave all areas tidy.
14. 14. To encourage positive relationships between pupils and adults through informal discussion and play situations.
15. 15. As appropriate, to organise the distribution and collection of lunchtime equipment and supervise activities where necessary.
16. 16. To be actively involved and encourage play, games and physical activity under the direction of the Head of Inclusion.
17. 17. To encourage and develop social skills e.g. good manners, kindness, mutual respect and trust.
18. 18. To liaise with the kitchen staff as appropriate for issues related to lunchtime supervision.
19. 19. As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the School’s responsibilities towards Safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping people safe and protecting people from harm, neglect, abuse and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have. Please refer to the school website for our Safeguarding policy.
20. 20. Carry out your duties with due regard to current and future School policies, procedures and relevant legislation. These will be drawn to your attention in your appointment letter, your statement of particulars, induction, and on-going performance development and through School communications.

Safeguarding requirements

This post requires the post holder to work in settings with children and young adults. Any employment offer is therefore subject to the results of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). People who may have contact with younger children (i.e. primary school age) are also required to complete a declaration about family or other members of their household.

Dimensions (Financial/Statistical/Mandates/No. of direct reports)

• Range of Teachers and Support Staff
• Range of Students approximately 300+

Work/Business contacts

• Internal: All teachers and support staff.
• External: Parents and families.

Expertise in Role Required

Essential

• Experience of working with children/ young people.
• Experience of encouraging the development of relationships between children/young people.
• Willingness to undertake further training / qualifications
• Basic Health and Safety Awareness
• The ability to relate to children/young people from diverse ethnic/social backgrounds.
• Good verbal communication skills in order to liaise with children/young people and other staff members.
• The ability to react in a positive manner to difficult situations which may arise amongst children/young people.
• Ability to keep problems in perspective, be patient and to remain calm
• Ability to behave in a consistent way in order to give clear messages to the children
• Able to read and understand simple verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to be flexible, reliable and to be a team player
• Is willing to work flexibly within scope of overall hours, e.g. evening meetings
• Able and willing to travel to meet the needs of the role.
• Working knowledge or understanding of relevant policies and codes of practice.

Desirable

• An ability to work with children/young people exhibiting behaviour difficulties. Desirable
• First Aid Qualification Desirable

We recognise and welcome our responsibility to remove any barriers in our Recruitment and Selection process for disabled people. We have tried to do this, but if you have a disability and identify any barriers in the job description or employee specification, please tell us of these in your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the job wherever possible and it would help us to know your needs in order to do this. Candidates will be assessed against the job description and expertise profile from evidence provided in their application form, references and a selection process (including interview). Where criteria are to be identified through the Selection Process, this may involve written exercises, group discussions, presentations, interview etc.

This job description is not exhaustive and may be subject to review and amendment in line with the needs of the Trust.