Midday Assistant

The Methodist Church in Britain; Wickford; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purposeful training

Opportunity to work with children and

Supportive colleagues

A highly effective learning enviroment

A responsive and involved leadership

Job summary

Hilltop Junior School in the HEARTS Academy Trust is seeking a lunchtime supervisor to oversee pupils during the lunch break. The role focuses on keeping children safe, supervising in the lunch hall and outdoors, and encouraging positive play.

You will help maintain good behaviour, administer basic first aid when needed, and work around other commitments. Enhanced safeguarding checks are required, and visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• DBS check including children's barred list required.
• Satisfactory references meeting KCSIE requirements.
• Prohibition from teaching check where applicable.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting children's welfare.

Responsibilities

• Supervise children in the lunch hall
• Encourage imaginative play outdoors and indoors in wet weather
• Ensure the good behaviour of pupils
• Administer first aid

Skills

Enthusiastic and caring nature

Enjoys working with children

Job description

A lunchtime role at Hilltop Junior School, one of the HEARTS Academy Trust schools, covering the midday break for pupils. The work centres on keeping children safe and supervised in the lunch hall and outdoors, encouraging play, managing behaviour and giving first aid when needed. It is a lunchtime post that fits around other commitments, suited to someone who enjoys working with junior-age children. An enhanced DBS check, including the children's barred list, is required, and visa sponsorship is not available.

What the job involves

• Supervise children in the lunch hall
• Encourage imaginative play outdoors and indoors in wet weather
• Ensure the good behaviour of pupils
• Administer first aid

What’s required

Skills & knowledge

• Enthusiastic and caring nature
• Enjoys working with children

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check with children's barred list check
• Satisfactory references meeting KCSIE requirements
• Satisfactory online search
• Prohibition from teaching check where applicable
• Satisfactory application form

Other

• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting children's welfare

What’s offered

• Purposeful training
• Opportunity to work with children and the school community
• Supportive colleagues
• A highly effective learning environment
• A responsive and involved leadership team