Breakfast Club Assistant

South Marston Church of England Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 4SH

24 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,244.00 Annually (FTE) J1 Scale

Breakfast Club Assistant job summary

Job Purpose: Under the direction of the Line Manager, provide high standards of care, creative play opportunities and age-appropriate activities in a nurturing, fun and safe environment for children. Assist in the preparation, serving and cleaning duties associated with providing breakfast.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide a welcoming environment to parents/ carers and children.
• To assist in providing appropriate and varied activities and games for children to participate in before school.
• To maintain positive behaviour management practice and promote inclusion respect and trust.
• To maintain a daily register of children attending.
• To prepare and service breakfast to children.
• To operate kitchen machinery such as dishwashers, microwave etc as required.
• To maintain standards of hygiene and cleanliness and observe all requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
• To support the Breakfast Club Leader/ Manager/SBO in maintaining all food stock levels.
• To supervise pupils whilst having breakfast, providing help and support where needed.
• To maintain positive behaviour management practice and promote inclusion, respect and trust.
• To ensure that all health and safety, first aid and hygiene policies are adhered to at all times.

Other duties

• In accordance with the provisions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself, colleagues and pupils who may be affected by your omissions at work, and to co-operate with the school so far as is necessary to enable the school to perform or comply with their duties under statutory health and safety provisions.
• Undertake any other duties that can be accommodated within the grading level and nature of this post.
• To attend relevant meetings and participate in training opportunities and professional development as appropriate.

In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR Regulations May 2018, jobholders should take reasonable care to ensure that personal data is not disclosed outside the Trust procedures, or use personal data held on others for their own purposes. In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, ensure requests for non-personal information are dealt with in accordance with the Trust’s written procedures.

The Blue Kite Trust is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Breakfast Club Assistant - Person specification

Qualifications:	Essential	Desirable
A basic level of literacy and numeracy	✓
Knowledge, understanding and experience:
Previous experience of working with children, preferably in a school setting		✓
Understand the concept of positive behaviour management and how this can be applied in the Breakfast Club setting		✓
Understanding of relevant policies/ codes of practice	✓
Basic understanding of child development and learning	✓
Willingness to undertake training, particularly food hygiene, health & safety and child protection training	✓
Personal and Professional qualities:
Ability to communicate clearly with a range of stakeholders a	✓
Confidence in dealing with young people, maintaining discipline, motivation and ensuring wellbeing of children	✓
Ability to work as part of a team	✓
Displays warmth, care and sensitivity in dealing with children and their parents/ carers	✓
Understand what constitutes appropriate and successful relationships with children and parents/ carers	✓
Effective organisational skills	✓
Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.	✓
A demonstrable commitment to supporting and promoting safeguarding, welfare, equality and diversity of all employees, pupils and volunteers	✓

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 South Marston Church of England Primary School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 96 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: South Marston Church of England Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/south-marston-church-of-england-primary-school-swindon

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