Lunchtime Supervisor
Talbot Specialist School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 9JP25 days remaining to apply
Closing date
21 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): 9.17 hours a week - 38 weeks a year (term time) Working Monday to Friday - 11.30am to 13.20pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale Point 2
What skills and experience we're looking for
Permanent Lunchtime Supervisory Assistants
9.17 hours per week, Monday to Friday (11.30am to 13.20pm) x 38 weeks a year.
We are seeking a caring, reliable, and professional Lunchtime Supervisor to join our team, supporting students aged 11 to 19 years during the lunch period. This role is key to ensuring a safe, inclusive, and enjoyable lunchtime experience for all students.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise students in the dining hall, before, during and after the midday meal.
- Support students with a range of needs, including those with additional or specialist requirements.
- Promote positive behaviour and social interaction.
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students during lunchtime.
- Read and understand feeding plans and specialist diets, ensuring students receive appropriate meals.
- Assist with setting up and clearing the lunch area.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Excellent oral and written English language skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with students and staff.
- Experience working with young people aged 11–19 is desirable.
- Understanding of safeguarding and child welfare.
- Ability to follow instructions and work independently or as part of a team.
What the school offers its staff
We Offer:
- Westfield Health Plan for wellbeing and medical support.
- Term-time only working for a great work-life balance.
- Free on-site parking.
- A holistic package of support, including training and development opportunities.
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Opportunities to take on additional roles elsewhere in the school, offering career progression and variety.
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Talbot Specialist School
- School type
- Special school, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 234 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Talbot Specialist School website
- Email address
- hr@talbot.sheffield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0114 2507394
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of our students and their families?
We are expanding our staffing team to better meet the needs of our amazing students and have some exciting opportunities to become part of our highly skilled and supportive staff team. We are looking to appoint inspirational and energetic practitioners who are willing to go above and beyond to support our students and their families to achieve:
‘Beyond Expectations’
Our School:
Talbot Specialist School is a recently inspected good school for students aged 11-19 with Cognition and Learning Difficulties – including emotional needs, behavioural needs, profound and complex learning difficulties and autism. We are based in the South of Sheffield, serving approximately 240 young people and their families from across the city. Situated on the same site as Newfield School, we offer high quality facilities which enable our students to be as independent and prepared as possible to have purposeful and fulfilled adult lives. We actively seek opportunities to promote inclusion and work closely with Newfield and other Sheffield Special Schools.
We have a new leadership team in place and are developing our provision to include learning at different sites across the city. This is an exciting time to join the school and to be part of our amazing journey!
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