Midday Supervisor

Avanti Schools Trust; Frome; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

A UK educational trust in Frome is seeking enthusiastic Midday Supervisors to support children during lunchtime. Responsibilities include supervising children, promoting cooperative play, and ensuring compliance with behaviour policies. This role requires teamwork and first aid knowledge. If you're passionate about enhancing children's school experience and being part of a supportive community, apply now. The position offers professional development opportunities and other benefits.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

NEST pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Well-being programmes

Cycle-to-work Scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Maintain acceptable behavioural standards among children.
• Appropriate knowledge of first aid.

Responsibilities

• Supervise children during lunchtime.
• Engage with children in cooperative play.
• Ensure pupils follow behaviour policies.

Skills

Teamwork

Behaviour management

First aid knowledge

Job description

Overview

We are looking for two Midday Supervisors to support our children during the busy lunchtime period. In this role, you'll help create a safe, positive and enjoyable environment. be a visible, supportive presence, engaging with pupils, encouraging cooperative play, and ensuring behaviour aligns with our values. Your responsibilities will include supervising children at all times, promoting purposeful and friendly interactions, and taking prompt action when spills, accidents or concerns arise, report behaviour (both positive and negative), and ensure any injuries or illness are dealt with according to school policy. As a strong role model, you'll contribute to the wellbeing, safety and happiness of every child in your care. If you are enthusiastic, reliable and passionate about supporting children's school experience, we would love to hear from you. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference each day and be part of a warm, supportive school community. School visits are welcomed and encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the children at all times during lunchtime on the school premises.
• Engage with the children and ensure that they are active in purposeful and co-operative behaviour throughout the lunchtime period.
• Ensure that the children are behaving appropriately in line with the schools' behaviour policy at all times including the dining room, playground and during wet lunch times.
• Take reasonable precautions whilst in charge of the children to see that they do nothing that is likely to injure themselves or others.

What We’re Looking For

• Ability to work as part of a team, form good relationships with other colleagues to ensure effective lunchtime supervision.
• To be able to take charge of groups of children setting and maintaining acceptable behavioural standards.
• Appropriate knowledge of first aid.
• Commitment to professional development, learning and development.

Additional Information

All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Benefits

• Great opportunities for professional development.
• NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility).
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership.
• Well‑being programmes (retreats, yoga, wellness apps).
• Cycle‑to‑work Scheme.

Commitment to Safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to attract the widest range of people and ensure they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

"When I stepped into Avanti Park, the first thing I noticed was that they don't just talk about valuing the whole child. It's evidenced by discussions around spirituality within lessons and PSHE, its lived through assemblies, conversations with children and yoga lessons that help children focus on what's important to them. All of this tied together showed me it's not just a sound bite that we care about the whole child; it's about giving them the tools to embody that daily," - Simon Goldsworthy, Key Stage 2 Lead.