Lunchtime Supervisor
Lower Meadow Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8EE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
29 September 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
12 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £3,585.00 - £3,670.00 Annually (Actual) FTE SCP2 £24,601 - SCP4 £25,185
Lunchtime Supervisor job summary
Position: Lunchtime Supervisor
Contract Type: Part-Time (6.25 hours per week)
Working Pattern: Term Time Only (39 weeks per year)
Location: Lower Meadow Primary Academy
Are you passionate about supporting children and creating a safe, happy environment during lunchtime? Lower Meadow Primary Academy is looking for a caring, reliable, and enthusiastic Lunchtime Supervisor to join our dedicated team. We are a welcoming, inclusive school in Sheffield, part of Astrea Academy Trust. We embrace curiosity, empathy, and resilience, and offer a nurturing environment where children thrive academically and socially through high expectations and strong community values.
Key Responsibilities:- Supervise pupils during the lunch period, ensuring their safety and wellbeing.
- Promote positive behaviour and good manners.
- Support children in the dining hall and playground.
- Encourage inclusive play and social interaction.
- Administer basic first aid when required.
- Enjoys working with children and is committed to their welfare.
- Has good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Is calm, patient, and able to work as part of a team.
- Can follow school policies and procedures effectively.
- A welcoming and supportive school community.
- Training and development opportunities.
- A chance to make a real difference in children’s daily school experience.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Flexible Interview Dates:
Please note that interview dates are flexible, and the academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lower Meadow Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 297 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lower Meadow Primary School website
Lower Meadow Primary Academy is a 3-11 Academy; we sit in South Sheffield on the border with Derbyshire and chose to join Astrea Academy Trust in July 2016. We have a strong team that drive school improvement and strive for the best outcomes for all children.
The Academy is seeking to attract a talented, knowledgeable, and committed team member who can demonstrate high aspirations for all our children along with the enthusiasm and resilience to support all aspects of a child’s education. The successful candidate will have the
opportunity to work in a supportive, professional learning community that seeks excellence and play a key part in the next step of our journey towards Outstanding.
Lower Meadow Primary Academy has been on a journey of improvement over the last six years and we were pleased to be recognised as a “Good” school by Ofsted in 2019. Our emphasis is on consistently high quality teaching and learning throughout school and across all areas of the
curriculum to raise children’s outcomes and allow them to move onto secondary school fully prepared. We believe strongly in building our children’s aspirations and helping them to become good learners so they can build on their successes each year and achieve their full potential. We use the Astrea Values to help build children’s life skills and prepare them fully for secondary school. Our children behave well and enjoy coming to school. All staff are committed to providing the very best for all children. Teamwork is a strong part of our ethos, with a supportive and nurturing staff and a culture of continual improvement in all that we do.
Those we recruit can demonstrate that they share our values, have the child at the centre of everything they do, are highly motivated to work with colleagues to continuously develop their skills, pursue professional excellence and are committed to providing the highest standards consistently. If you feel that you can support our ethos, we would be delighted to receive your application.
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