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  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    2 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    4 April 2025

Job details

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Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Actual £4,000 (FTE £23,656)

Lunchtime Supervisor job summary

Waterton Academy Trust is looking to appoint an inspiring and dynamic Lunchtime Supervisor to join the team at King’s Meadow Academy a one and a half form entry school, located in Kinsley, Pontefract.

If you are an ambitious, talented and highly motivated Lunchtime Supervisor with a passion for ensuring children learn and achieve, and if you work hard and have the drive and energy to make a difference to children’s lives and their learning, then Kings Meadow Academy could be the school for you!

King’s Meadow Academy is an average sized school and joined Waterton Academy Trust in 2018. The Trust consists of 13 primary phase schools, 2 Assessment Resource Units and 4 Pre Schools in the Wakefield and Barnsley area. As part of this Trust both staff and children enjoy varied opportunities for collaboration in all areas of the curriculum.

The school is committed to providing a stimulating, creative environment so that all children enjoy learning, make outstanding progress and reach their potential. By offering an engaging and language rich curriculum, the school is constantly striving to provide high-quality learning opportunities which challenge and inspire all our pupils.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and talented individual to take a key role in our team. We are looking for someone with a genuine passion for education – someone who is driven to make a difference to the lives of the children they work with

The Successful candidate will:

Fully support the ethos of the school

Be willing to participate with games and activities; both in and outdoors. These activities can vary on a daily basis so need to be tolerate of change

Be a team player with good interpersonal skills

Be patient, caring, understanding, positive and supportive

Support pupils while they eat their lunch, making sure tables are clean and that water is available

Ensure table manners are maintained

Report accident forms if necessary

Ensure that school discipline & Child Protection policies are implemented

Support the work of other Lunchtime Supervisors & school staff

Respond well to delegation as required by the supervisor & senior members of staff

Record inappropriate pupil behaviour and convey serious incidents to the senior leaders

Maintain checks throughout the lunch break to ensure pupils are safe

Have good communication skills

Act as a positive role model

In return, we can offer:

A supportive and forward thinking leadership team

Professional development opportunities

An absolute commitment to safeguarding and promoting welfare and safety of staff and children

A great atmosphere which promotes inclusion and co-operation

A health and wellbeing package

A cycle to work scheme

An excellent pension package

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 are not accepted.

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About King's Meadow Academy

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
245 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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