Breakfast Club Assistant
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1LG6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
22 July 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
14 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 7.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday. Term Time Only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- A1 (2)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Childcare and Supervision Skills:
- Supervising children in a safe, engaging environment.
- Managing different age groups calmly and confidently.
Communication Skills:
- Communicating effectively with children, staff, and parents.
- Listening to and responding to children’s needs.
Teamwork:
- Working cooperatively with other staff to run the club smoothly.
Time Management:
- Setting up and clearing away quickly and efficiently.
- Keeping to schedules, especially around food service and school start times.
Food Preparation and Hygiene:
- Preparing and serving simple breakfasts (e.g., toast, cereal, fruit).
- Following food hygiene and safety guidelines.
Behaviour Management:
- Encouraging positive behaviour and resolving minor conflicts calmly.
Creativity and Activity Planning:
- Organising simple games, crafts, or quiet activities to keep children engaged.
What the school offers its staff
Pool-in-Wharfedale CofE Primary School offers an excellent environment, with well-motivated pupils and supportive parents and governors. A flavour of the school can be gained from our website, and visits from those interested in the post are also warmly encouraged.
Further information about the job
Main Duties
- Ensure that all the equipment required for the session is set up before receiving pupils, such as putting the tables and activities out.
- Prepare food, such as cleaning and chopping fruit, making toast or other breakfast choices as directed.
- Supporting pupils while they eat breakfast, cutting up food for pupils and making sure tables are clean and that water is available
- Ensure the health and safety of children in your care at all times, such as know who has gone to the toilet and ensure any potential dangers such as spillages are cleaned up etc.
- Ensure standards for healthy eating and table manners are maintained
- Lead the children in the establishment of suitable games/activities, ensuring the inclusion of all pupils
- Report accidents to the manager and complete an accident form if necessary
- To treat all information relating to families as confidential
- Ensure that school behaviour management policies are implemented
- Support the work of other extended services workers
- Support the induction and training of new staff as required by the manager
- Respond to duty delegation as required by the manager
- Record inappropriate pupil behaviour and convey serious incidents to the manager
- Ensure that all equipment is cleaned and stored away, as necessary, at the end of the session
- To ensure the promotion and support of Equal Opportunities and Health & Safety
- To undertake any other duties that are commensurate with the post
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Our school is a place where everyone should be able to flourish in a loving and hospitable community. Each person in all their unique difference should be able to thrive, irrespective of physical appearance, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, academic ability, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 186 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- claire.taylor@poolprimarysch.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01132843151
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is in the Benefice of Lower Wharfedale which is in the Diocese of Leeds.
‘Believe and Achieve’ is our ethos. It is the foundation on which we build lasting partnerships with our pupils, parents and the wider community. We have close links with St Wilfrid’s and Pool Methodist churches, and our values are based on the Christian faith.
Through high expectations and a caring Christian environment, we aim to provide the best for our pupils and strive to develop the ‘whole child’. We proudly refer to ourselves as 'The Pool School Family' and instil in all our pupils a desire to look after each other and celebrate diversity.
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