Breakfast and Afterschool Club Assistant

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 4BB

2 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  4 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.26 Hourly 15 hours per week term time only

Breakfast and Afterschool Club Assistant job summary

Job Title: Support Assistant – Breakfast and Afterschool Club
Hours: 8.00–9:00am and 3:30–5:30pm, term time only
Reports to: Office Manager

Job Purpose:
To assist in the day-to-day running of the breakfast and afterschool club, ensuring a safe, welcoming, and engaging environment for all children.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise and engage children in a range of age-appropriate activities before and after school.

• Assist with the preparation and serving of snacks and breakfasts.

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children at all times, following safeguarding and health and safety procedures.

• Help with setting up and tidying away resources and equipment.

• Build positive relationships with children, staff, and parents/carers.

• Support children in developing social skills through play and structured activities.

Person Specification:

• Experience working with children (preferred but not essential)

• Friendly, reliable, and enthusiastic

• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

• Willingness to work as part of a team

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St Mary's Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 249 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Mary's Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mary-s-catholic-primary-school-luton

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