Lunchtime Assistant

Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  3 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 June 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 6.25 hours per week (12:50pm – 1:05pm), Monday-Friday, for 39 weeks a year (term time only, inclusive of INSET days).
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: NJC Pay Scale, Grade 2 (SCP 2-4) Actual Salary: £3,250 - £3,358 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to join our lunchtime supervision team. Successful candidates will be required to act as a member of the team, supervising pupils during the lunch break and to sustain the welfare and the safety of the pupils during the break period as directed by the Head teacher/Senior Leadership Team.

Queen Mary’s High School is a wonderful place to work and learn, teach and lead, and our students are truly exceptional. We have a dedicated, expert and conscientious teaching staff, ably supported by superb associate staff. Our ethos and values are demonstrated by the endeavour of all in our school community, who work together to ensure the highest standards of academic achievement, and to provide excellent pastoral care that supports, nurtures and empowers our students in achieving this excellence.

If you are, like us passionate about having a positive impact on young people’s lives, and excited by this opportunity to support exceptional young people, we warmly welcome your application.

What the school offers its staff

• A superb staff team committed to doing their absolute best for all in our school community.

• Support from our Trust central teams and other schools in our Trust to ensure you have the tools to deliver success (our schools are all located close to one another, and we work better when we are working together).

• A wealth of support for your ongoing continuing professional development, including a Trust-wide programme for teachers at all career stages, including an exceptional Early Career Teacher programme drawing on expertise from across the Mercian Trust.

• We offer a range of benefits to support our staff wellbeing including access to the employee’s assistance and benefits programme, our school fitness suite and a cycle to work scheme.

• There is never a dull moment; we never stand still, every day offers new challenges and opportunities within an ambitious, forward-thinking team.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.

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About Queen Mary's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 908 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Queen Mary's High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: bonnie.burns@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-mary-s-high-school (opens in new tab)

Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.

Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.

We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.

Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.

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