Lunchtime Supervisor

Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 5FU

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  18 December 2025

• Closing date

  9 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 1 Point 2 - £24,413 per annum FTE (£3,486)

Lunchtime Supervisor job summary

Richard Lee Primary School - Lunchtime Supervisor Role

Grade 1 Point 2 £12.65 per hour

Part time, 1 hour and 15 mins per day,6.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only

(Flexibility required with daily hours of work between 11.30am and 1.30pm)

Start Date: January 2026

Richard Lee Primary School is a school with a great future!

About

We are looking to appoint a reliable and enthusiastic Lunchtime Supervisor to join our hard-working support staff team at Richard Lee Primary School. The lunchtime supervisor team play an important role within our school, ensuring that our pupils experience an enjoyable and safe lunchtime.

Duties will include:

• Looking after a specific group of children and an area of the dining hall/playground each day (although this group/area will vary)

• Escorting children to and from the dining room

• Supervising children inside and outside during the lunchtime

• Monitoring pupil behaviour, intervening as necessary in accordance with school policies including behaviour, safeguarding, health and safety and first aid

• Creating play opportunities for children.

Candidates will be energetic, caring and flexible with the ability to work as part of a team with a sense of pride in the school environment, having ideally worked with children and/or in an educational setting before.

In return we can offer:

• friendly, happy and well-behaved children who are keen and eager to learn

• a caring and supportive team of colleagues who are committed to providing the best for our pupils

• the support you may need to take your career forwards with opportunities for professional development.

Important

Visits to the school prior to application are strongly encouraged and will be warmly welcomed. The headteacher, Jenny Stafford, would be delighted to meet you and talk about the opportunity. Please contact the school office to book a visit.

Application deadline: 9:00am – 9 January 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024.

These posts are exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).  The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance.

Richard Lee Primary School is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and vigilance

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Richard Lee Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 406 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Richard Lee Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/richard-lee-primary-school-coventry

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