Midday Supervisor

Bolton School; Bolton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton School is looking for a reliable and enthusiastic Mid-day Supervisor to join our school team and help ensure that our pupils have a safe, positive and enjoyable lunchtime experience. The role involves supervising pupils in the dining hall, helping manage lunch queues and providing support while meals are served.

You will encourage good manners and positive behaviour, ensure food remains in dining areas, and help create a calm, welcoming lunchtime environment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise pupils in the dining hall during lunchtime
• Help to manage lunch queues
• Provide support while pupils eat their meals
• Encourage good manners and positive behaviour
• Ensure food remains within dining areas
• Help to create a calm, welcoming lunchtime environment
• Supervise pupils across the wider school site (playground, classrooms, designated areas)
• Monitor indoor areas during bad weather to keep pupils safe

Job description

About you

Bolton School is looking for a reliable and enthusiastic Mid-day Supervisor to join our school team and help ensure that our pupils have a safe, positive and enjoyable lunchtime experience.

This is an important role within the school community. The successful candidate will supervise pupils in the dining hall, help to manage lunch queues and provide support while pupils eat their school meals. They will encourage good manners and positive behaviour, ensure food remains within the dining areas, and help to create a calm, welcoming and pleasant lunchtime environment.

The role will also involve supervision of pupils across the wider school site, including the playground, classrooms and other designated areas, ensuring pupils are in the appropriate areas during the lunchtime period and do not congregate in restricted locations, such as the Science Laboratories, Arts Centre or playing fields. During periods of bad weather, pupils will be supervised in designated indoor areas, ensuring behaviour remains safe and appropriate.

We are looking for someone who enjoys working with children and young people and who can build positive relationships while maintaining clear and consistent boundaries. You will have a friendly and approachable manner, good communication skills and the confidence to manage pupil behaviour positively and fairly.

You will be observant, responsible and able to remain calm when dealing with incidents or unexpected situations. Reliability, punctuality and the ability to work effectively as part of a wider school team are also essential.

Previous experience of working with children or young people would be beneficial, although your attitude and approach are equally important. An awareness of safeguarding, health and safety and the importance of promoting pupil wellbeing would be an advantage.

With some 2,500 pupils, Bolton School is a large, thriving, academically selective day school. It is situated a mile or so from the town centre in a stunning 32 acre campus and is within easy reach of some of the nation’s finest cities and countryside.

In Autumn 2021, significant changes were made to the leadership structure of the School Foundation, investing the newly created position of Head of Foundation with overall responsibility. Within the new structure, there are three sections: Girls’ Division, Boys’ Division and Primary Division. A Head of each Division and the Head of Foundation, together with the Clerk and Treasurer and Director of Operational Services, are the Foundation’s Senior Officers; they are directly accountable to the Governors.

Two adjoining and similar buildings, now attached by a state-of-the art Sixth Form Centre, house the Boys’ and Girls’ Senior Schools, each of which provides a traditional academic education from the age of 11 years. The Primary Division includes separate Junior Schools for boys and girls from the age of 7 and a co-educational Infant School and Nursery.

Closing date for applications: Monday 19 October 2026 at 12.00 noon

Interviews will be held on Thursday 22 October 2026