Breakfast Club Assistant

Gunthorpe Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 7YP

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  13 November 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 3 (£4224.29 Actual Salary)

Breakfast Club Assistant job summary

7.5 hours per week, 1.5 hours per day - 7.30am to 9.00am Monday to Friday

Gunthorpe Primary School are looking to appoint a Breakfast Club Assistant to join our friendly team to assist in the running of our Breakfast Club. Within the role you will assist in the delivery of breakfast, play and care provision for children aged between 4 and 11 years. This will involve supervising the provision of a healthy cold breakfast, promoting healthy eating habits, and supporting appropriate play-based activities. Within the role you will also be responsible for escorting children to Norwood Primary School who have attended Breakfast Club.

We are looking for someone who:

• Enjoys working with children and ideally has experience of working with children aged 4-11 years
• Has a good standard of general education and ideally a qualification at NVQ level 2 in an appropriate childcare/education related subject although this is not essential
• Has a basic understanding of food hygiene and willingness to undertake basic qualifications
• Has an understanding of safeguarding
• Is able to communicate well with a wide range of groups and individuals
• Is a team player whilst also able to work on their own initiative

We offer:

• A friendly team of people to work with
• A well resources and welcoming environment
• A highly-supportive school environment which is committed to you and your professional development.

This position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service which will require candidates to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions on their application forms.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Gunthorpe Primary School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Gunthorpe Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gunthorpe-primary-school-peterborough

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