Breakfast Club Assistant

Heathwood Lower School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 3AU

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  16 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 October 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: £13.28 - £13.48 Hourly

Breakfast Club Assistant job summary

Breakfast Club Assistant

• Location: Heathwood Lower School
• Contract: Permanent, Part-Time (Term Time Only)
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8AM -9 AM (5 hours per week)
• Salary: NJC Scale Point 3-4 Pro-rata term time only
• Start Date: As soon as possible

About Our School

Heathwood Lower School is a friendly and vibrant lower school catering for children aged 4 to 9. We pride ourselves on providing a nurturing, inclusive, and stimulating environment where every child is valued and encouraged to reach their full potential. Our staff team is supportive, and our children are enthusiastic and well-behaved.

We are looking for a caring, reliable, and energetic Breakfast Club Assistant to join our dedicated wraparound care team. You will help provide a safe, welcoming, and fun start to the day for our lower school pupils. Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and serving a healthy, balanced breakfast while adhering to dietary and allergy requirements.
• Setting up and supervising engaging, age-appropriate play and quiet activities.
• Encouraging positive behaviour, good manners, and social interaction among the children.
• Ensuring high standards of health, safety, food hygiene, and cleanliness in the dining and play areas.
• Safely handing over children to their class teachers at the start of the school day.

What We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A warm, patient, and approachable manner when working with young children (ages 4-9).
• Previous experience working or volunteering in a school or childcare setting (desirable).
• A good understanding of safeguarding, health and safety, and food hygiene (training can be provided).
• Reliability, punctuality, and a proactive "can-do" attitude.
• Level 2 Childcare or Paediatric First Aid qualifications are an advantage, though a willingness to undertake training is acceptable.

What We Offer

• A welcoming and supportive working environment.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 Heathwood Lower School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 9
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 195 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Heathwood Lower School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heathwood-lower-school

Heathwood Lower School is an inclusive school that 'promotes values which underpin all aspects of school life' Ofsted 2017 . We strive to nurture our pupils in order that they may become confident, caring, compassionate children, ready to make a positive contribution to the wider community when they leave our care.

Our school vision statement
our vision for every child is to embed a love for learning, to be passionate about the world around them, to celebrate differences and be kind.
Our children will learn important life skills so they leave Heathwood equipped to be successful learners, ready for the next steps in their lives.

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