Lunch Time Controller

New Town Primary School, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 3LS

13 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  13 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  31 January 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: £5,429.00 Annually (Actual) RG2 3 (£24,027 FTE) £5,429.86 actual

Lunch Time Controller job summary

Lunch Time Controller

10 hrs per week across 5 days, Term Time only

2 hours per day, 11:40am – 1:40pm,

RG2 3 (£24,027 FTE) £5,429.86 actual

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We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious and self-motivated person to join our Lunch Time Controller team. A successful applicant will have experience working with primary age children, supervising children in play activities and managing children’s behaviour in a positive manner. Excellent communication skills, including a good standard of spoken English, are vital, along with the ability to work effectively in a team and administer minor First Aid when required.

Joining our school family means you’ll need to be:

• An enthusiastic member of staff who is forward thinking and able to adapt quickly and easily.
• Someone who puts children at the heart of all you do and is a positive role model.
• Dynamic and fast-paced, finding effective solutions at every turn whilst considering others’ points of view.
• A team player with the ability to work well both individually, as part of a phase and as a whole staff.
• A kind and caring person, enjoying the bustling life of our diverse school family and always looking to recognise our polite and welcoming children.
• An excellent English speaker and writer.
• Efficient and effective in your working practices and able to prioritise well.

In return, our team can offer:

• An optimistic and close-knit senior leadership team with a track record of improving schools.
• A firmly established ethos of caring for one another in our school family.
• A strong middle and senior leadership team who will guide and nurture you through your role.
• A commitment to professional development, and a belief in driving improvement through looking outwards to the world beyond our walls.
• The opportunity to work with a wider professional team of unique schools, all brilliantly supported by a Trust who strongly value the individual school’s character, ethos and approaches.
• A beautiful and spacious school environment filled with love, light and kindness.
• Secure car parking and a staff wellbeing package.

Please visit the school website at www.newtown.reading.sch.uk

Visits and tours are warmly welcomed; please come along to find out more about our lovely school and meet some of the senior leadership team who will happily chat about the opportunities available. Please contact us at workwithus@newtown.reading.sch.uk for more information.

Applications will be considered and interviews arranged upon receipt.

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New Town Primary School, as a member of the Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust, is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. Online checks will also be carried out to comply with KCSIE.

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About New Town Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 423 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: New Town Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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