Lunchtime Assistant
Sholing Junior School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 8PTThis job expired on 14 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Once all relevant safeguarding checks are completed
Closing date
14 October 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
30 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 6 hours a week Term time only 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.82
What skills and experience we're looking for
WE ARE SEEKING A PROFESSIONAL INDIVIDUAL WHO:
We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic lunchtime assistant who enjoys working with children to ensure they are happy, healthy and safe during this important time of the day.
Notably you will promote healthy eating and encourage children to build good relationships with their peers through a consistent and positive approach.
You will be joining a supportive and professional lunchtime team.
JOB/PERSON SUMMARY:
We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic lunchtime assistant who enjoys working with children to ensure they are happy, healthy and safe during this important time of the day.
Notably you will promote healthy eating and encourage children to build good relationships with their peers through a consistent and positive approach.
You will be joining a supportive and professional lunchtime team.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- To supervise pupils in the dining hall, playground, classroom or other areas of the school as directed
- To encourage good behaviour
- To encourage pupils to eat in a socially acceptable manner and to behave sensibly and quietly in the dining area
- To assist with ancillary duties such as clearing up spillages and ensuring that tables are clean and clear
- To encourage children to play and/or interact with each other safely and sociably
- To provide welfare support to the children in the school. This may include undertaking minor first aid duties (if trained) and assisting children with personal hygiene.
At an appropriate level, according to the job role, grade and training received, all employees in the school are expected to:
1. Support the aims, values, mission and ethos of the school and participate in a team approach to all aspects of school life.
2. Attend and contribute to staff meetings and INSET days as required and identify areas of personal practice and experience to develop.
3. Take appropriate responsibility for safeguarding and children’s welfare and be aware of confidential issues linked to home/child/teacher/school and keep confidences appropriately.
4. Be aware of health and safety issues and act in accordance with the school’s Health and Safety Policy
What the school offers its staff
WE CAN OFFER YOU:
- Excellent CPD opportunities and Training and Development Programmes
- In-house Teaching School
- An individual induction programme supported by a mentor
- Networking groups for Teachers, Business Managers, Site Teams and IT staff
- Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service
- Free eye tests up to the value of £25 for users of VDU equipment and contribution up to the value of £60 towards the purchase of glasses specifically for the use of display screen equipment (where all conditions are met)
- Opportunity to become a school workplace Health and Wellbeing representative, meeting with other schools on a termly basis and feeding into the Health and Wellbeing strategy
- Access to the Trust Health and Wellbeing pages
- Access to a staff benefits portal through Vivup
- Free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for staff and family members
- Free inhouse clinical psychology provision.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFEGUARDING:
All schools with the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sholing Junior School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 353 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vrandall@sholing-jun.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02380 447448
Sholing Junior School is on the East Side of Southampton, and we have 360 children on roll, 3 form entry. The two story building has undergone extensive renovations over the years, from its original layout in 1976 to our new layout from 2016 when we built 4 extra classrooms to accommodate growing numbers due to the school’s popularity. We benefit from large open playgrounds, a separate hall and dining hall, dedicated music room, numerous intervention rooms, and use of the college field during the summer. We have on-site parking for staff.
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