4 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    6 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    30 May 2025

Job details

Job role

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£4,009.59 - £4,041.11 Annually (Actual) ALT Grade B Points 3-4

MDSA job summary

JOIN OUR TEAM

THIS IS AN INTERNAL POSITION FOR THE ACTIVE LEARNING TRUST EMPLOYEES ONLY.

Gusford Primary School is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic Midday Supervisors to join our team.

Job title: Midday Supervisor (MDSA)

Location: Gusford Primary School

Contract: Permanent, Part-Time, 7.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Salary:ALT Grade B points 3-4 - £4,009.59 - £4,041.11 Annually, Actual

About Us

Gusford Primary School is in the heart of Belstead and Chantry. It serves and contributes to a very happy community. Our school motto is ‘Together We Believe, Learn & Achieve’. As the school is a member of a Trust, it is part of a wider network of supportive schools. The Ipswich Hub and ALT schools from the Lowestoft and Cambridgeshire hubs, engage in regular school-to-school improvement networks, leadership development and CPD opportunities. Being part of the ALT enables our school to work collaboratively, not only with the Trust, to improve the outcomes for all our children, but in partnership with parents / carers and the local community.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supervising students during their lunch breaks across various areas, including the dining hall, playground, and cloakrooms.
  • Encouraging positive social interactions and healthy meal choices.
  • Ensuring the health, safety, welfare, and safeguarding of students during lunch breaks.
  • Assisting with dining area organisation and clean-up, including managing minor spillages.
  • Upholding and modelling the Academy's values, ethos, and behavioural standards.

What We Are Looking For:

  • Proactive and approachable individuals with excellent communication skills.
  • The ability to maintain a safe, purposeful, and encouraging lunchtime environment.
  • A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children.

If you wish to discover more about this exciting opportunity, then please contact Paul Rivett, School Business Manager privett@gusfordprimary.net or by ‘phone 01473 682148

The Active Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people. We expect all staff to actively share this commitment. All adults working in our Trust in whatever capacity will be part of a thorough safer recruitment process. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks including the taking of satisfactory references and enhanced criminal record clearance in line with the need to create and maintain a safe culture.

The Active Learning Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

To ensure we recruit and retain the best talent, all new employees recruited to the Active Learning Trust (leadership, teaching and support staff) will be subject to a 6 months’ probation period at the start of their employment (except for Early Career Teachers who are subject to a Statutory Induction Period). This policy aims to assess new employees' alignment with our culture, teaching standards, and student needs. It is designed to foster success; with regular evaluations and support mechanisms in place, helping us to identify and nurture talent.

We value diversity and welcome applications from all, including those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act. Flexible working will be considered for all roles deemed suitable.

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.

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About Gusford Community Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
549 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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