Lunchtime Assistant
Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 December 2025
Closing date
2 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 6.25 per week, term time only (Monday–Friday, 12:50pm–1:05pm)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 2 (SCP2-4)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Title: Lunchtime Assistant
Location: Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall
Hours: 6.25 per week, term time only (Monday–Friday, 12:50pm–1:05pm)
Salary: NJC Pay Scale, Grade 2 (SCP 2–4), Actual Salary: £3,547–£3,659 per annum
Responsible to: Assistant Headteacher
Job Purpose:
To provide care and supervision for pupils during the school lunch break, ensuring their welfare and safety as directed by senior staff.
What the school offers its staff
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise pupils in the canteen and around the school site.
- Manage the dining hall queue according to the rota.
- Patrol school and “out of bounds” areas.
- Monitor and address food/drink spillages and hazards.
- Assist with pupil needs as appropriate.
- Report incidents and accidents.
- Support and implement the school’s Behaviour Policy.
Person Specification (Essential):
- Experience working co-operatively and flexibly.
- Ability to relate to young people with differing needs.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent time management.
- Team player, optimistic, enthusiastic, and supportive.
- Commitment to safeguarding, equality, and the school’s ethos and values.
Interview will be held on Thursday 6th November 2025.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Further information about the job
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
- 944 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Queen Mary's High School website
- Email address
- jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
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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