Meal Time Assistant

Christow Primary School, Exeter, Devon, EX6 7PE

11 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  27 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  12 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.65 Hourly A2 scale

Meal Time Assistant job summary

Job Title: Meal Time Assistant Permanent

Required from September 2025

Grade: A2

Location: Christow Community Primary School

Working Pattern: 12.05pm - 1.05pm

Total 5 hours per week

38 weeks per year

£2740 pro rata per annum

This is an exciting opportunity to join our thriving primary school as it continues to grow and develop. We are looking for an individual to join our friendly, dedicated and hard-working team as a Meal Time Assistant.

The successful candidate will support our pupils during lunch times, ensuring a safe, happy and positive dining experience. You will help to create a welcoming and fun atmosphere, encouraging good table manners and positive play in the playground.

We are seeking someone who:

• is patient, caring and approachable
• has a good sense of humour and enjoys working with young children
• can encourage positive play and friendships
• is flexible, enthusiastic and committed
• can work well both independently and as part of a team

Experience of working with children is desirable, and an understanding of child development and behaviour would be an advantage. Excellent communication skills with both children and adults are important.

Christow Primary School is a very special place to work. Our popular school is situated in an attractive elevated position at the heart of Christow Parish and enjoys picturesque grounds, with a forest school site, adventure playground and gardening area. Our dedicated team of staff and governors work together to create a school where there is a real sense of community and where learners and staff can flourish.

Our aims are straightforward. We strive to develop the intellectual, spiritual, moral, social and cultural needs of each child through inspirational teaching and opportunities. We value the positive and sustained support of the parents to achieve this.

Please come and visit us and see for yourself!

Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS checks and reference checks. Christow Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults.

Please contact Amy Yeo, Headteacher, at reception@christowprimary.org.uk to arrange a visit.

Education South West is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. This includes checks with past employers, an online check of publicly available information, including social media, and an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service

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 Christow Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 94 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Christow Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/christow-primary-school

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