Breakfast Club Assistant
Hillside Primary School, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD4 6LUThis job expired on 14 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
14 June 2024 at 9am
Date listed
20 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £2,790.00 - £3,051.00 Annually (Actual) Salary depending on length of service
Breakfast Club Assistant job summary
PURPOSE OF POST
Working as part of a team to be responsible for the supervision of students on the school site during Breakfast Club. The post holder will work under the direction of the Pastoral and Breakfast Club lead.
Assist to secure the health, safety, welfare and good conduct of students, and good behaviour in accordance with the practices and procedures of the school.
To work under the guidance of teaching/senior staff to implement and oversee agreed interventions with individuals/groups during breakfast club. This will involve assisting the teacher in the management/preparation of resources.
KEY AREAS
1. Supervision of students on school premises
2. Promoting Positive Behaviour and implementing the Behaviour Policy
3. Promoting Personal and Social Skills
4. Curriculum Activities
5. General
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1 Supervision of students on school premises
1.1 To supervise areas, both indoors and outdoors, where students congregate during breakfast club, maintaining Health & Safety practices.
1.2 Taking account of relevant practices and procedures, to supervise and monitor activity areas, corridors, toilets, classrooms etc as required.
1.3 To supervise students eating their breakfast on school premises, in specified areas set aside for dining purposes including issues such as dealing with spillages.
1.4 To supervise pupils waiting to enter specified dining areas or the playground.
.5 1.5 To supervise and organise activities for pupils at Breakfast Club.
1.6 To report accidents or other occurrences such as child protection issue immediately to class teacher/Pastoral Care Lead/DSL/Head Teacher
2 Promoting Positive Behaviour
2.1 Promote good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
2.2 To encourage student’s understanding and knowledge of the impact of their actions within the remit of Health and Safety.
2.3 To encourage active participation and positive communication between pupils
2.3 Within the parameters of school’s positive behaviour practices and procedures, assist as appropriate to promote the maintenance of Health and Safety.
2.4 To use the school’s behaviour system to log behaviour incidents.
2.5 To provide paediatric first aid support and assistance for pupils.
2.6 As required by the school to assist under the direction of the school health planned and/or physiotherapist in medically related issues eg. administer medication-dosage already drawn up by the nurse, gastrostomy feeding and preparing to care for children requiring other medication administered and physiotherapy treatment.
3 Promoting Personal and Social Skills
3.1 To encourage students to maintain hygiene standards for example washing hands after toileting.
3.2 To encourage students to look after equipment and leave all areas in a tidy condition.
3.3 To encourage good relations between students and adults through role modelling and promoting positive play behaviours.
3.4 To encourage and develop social skills such as mutual respect and trust.
3.5 To be aware of cultural and social factors which may have an effect on the supervision of the students.
4. Curriculum Activities
4.1 To deliver reading/handwriting/spelling/times table interventions.
4.2 To work under the guidance of the teachers/SLT to plan and monitor the interventions delivered during breakfast club. Ensuring the progress is clearly recorded in the relevant systems and relates to the learning objectives/goals for pupils.
5. General
5.1 As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the Academy's responsibilities towards safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping people safe and protecting people from harm, neglect, abuse and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have. It isn't just about the very old and the very young, it is about everyone who may be vulnerable.
5.2 The post holder’s duties must at all times be carried out in compliance with the Academy’s Equal Opportunities Policy and other policies designed to protect employees from harassment.
a) Take reasonable care of the health and safety of self, other persons and resources whilst at work.
b) Co-operate with management of the Academy as far as is necessary to enable the responsibilities placed upon the Academy under the Health and Safety at Work Act to be performed, for example operate safe working practices.
c) It is the duty of the post holder not to act in a prejudicial or discriminatory manner towards employees, including those who may be for example from minority ethnic communities, women, disabled or older people, lesbians or gay men. The post holder should also counteract such practice or behaviour by challenging or reporting it.
Responsible To: Principal
Responsible for: None
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, a check the Children's Barred List and Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.
This job description is not an exhaustive document. It reflects the duties and responsibilities applicable at the time of issue. Details and emphasis are subject to amendment and revision in the light of the changing needs of South Pennine Academies Trust.
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.
About Hillside Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 332 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Hillside Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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