Midday Assistant

Shorefields; Tendring; Hybrid; GBP 5,900 - 6,000; Part time

Job summary

Cann Hall Primary School is seeking a motivated Midday Assistant to join the Lunchtime Supervision team for two hours each day, Monday to Friday during term time. Starting ASAP after references and checks, the role involves playground and dining hall duties, basic first aid, record-keeping, and supporting healthy eating while promoting Positive Play during lunchtime with children from Reception to Year 6.

The post is based at Cann Hall Primary School and requires safeguarding and welfare of

Responsibilities

• Playground supervision, dining hall duties and wet break supervision in class
• Promoting 'Positive Play' ensuring productive lunchtime activities for pupils, including the ability to make suggestions and involve yourself in activities
• Ensuring that good order is maintained in accordance with Cann Hall's Positive Behaviour and Confidentiality Policies
• Administering basic first aid and keeping records of accidents, liaising with other staff as necessary
• Assisting with ancillary duties e.g. cleaning up spillages, wiping tables etc.
• Supporting healthy eating
• Supervising and supporting play activities and encouraging children to participate in lunchtime activities
• Flexibility to work with children from Reception to Year 6
• Ensuring the safety and welfare of all our pupils.

Job description

Position Start Date: 01/12/2026 Contract Type: Part-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 30/10/2026 Midnight Date of Interviews: Week commencing 9th November 2026

Start Date: As soon as references and checks are complete. ASAP.

Salary: Scale 2, Spine point4-5,Actual Salary £5,879-£5,972per annum

Location: Cann Hall Primary School

Contract type: Permanent,38 weeks per year - term time only.

This role is based at Cann Hall Primary School

We are looking for a motivated person to join our friendly Lunchtime Supervision team as a Midday Assistant for two hours each day, Monday to Friday (term time only) over the lunchtime period.

The role involves a variety of responsibilities which include:

Playground supervision, dining hall duties and wet break supervision in class

• Promoting 'Positive Play' ensuring productive lunchtime activities for pupils, including the ability to make suggestions and involve yourself in activities
• Ensuring that good order is maintained in accordance with Cann Hall's Positive Behaviour and Confidentiality Policies
• Administering basic first aid and keeping records of accidents, liaising with other staff as necessary
• Assisting with ancillary duties e.g. cleaning up spillages, wiping tables etc.
• Supporting healthy eating
• Supervising and supporting play activities and encouraging children to participate in lunchtime activities
• Flexibility to work with children from Reception to Year 6
• Ensuring the safety and welfare of all our pupils.

Information about the School

Cann Hall Primary School is a two-form entry school catering for children from 4-11.

We know that effective education is the key to securing promising futures for our children in what continues to be a fast changing world, where jobs and careers are increasingly global rather than just local or national. Many of these jobs are yet to be created or imagined. Knowledge and skills do not stand still and no nation on the planet can afford to be complacent in a worldwide competitive environment.

As a school we know this means we have to keep moving forward – keeping children equipped with the latest skills and knowledge they need to succeed and a love of learning, so that we can prepare them really well with all they need before they move onto secondary education.

Our children are happy, behave well and love their learning and develop effective knowledge, skills and attributes that enable them to be confident, responsible and compassionate whilst developing a respect for humankind and the world in which we live. We want every child to have the core skills of literacy and mathematics mastered and learnt through a rich and creative curriculum that encompasses science, technologies, humanities and the arts. In addition, we have a rich extra-curricular programme and facilities for ‘wrap around care’. In short, we want to create a learning community that has every child skipping through our gates each day!

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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Joanne Connolly, Office Lead
Constable Avenue
Clacton-on-Sea,
Essex CO16 8DA, Clacton-on-Sea
Essex, CO16 8DA Telephone: [phone]
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