Mealtime Assistant

Plympton St Maurice Primary School, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 1UB

16 days remaining to apply

Job start date
7 January 2025
Closing date
30 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 October 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £22,366.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary from £2685 to £2745, depending on length of service

Mealtime Assistant job summary

About Plympton St Maurice Primary School

Welcome to Plympton St Maurice Primary School, a small, one form entry primary school where every child is noticed. Our school is a welcome, calm learning environment where our staff team recognise the importance of being an individual, with individual needs and differences.

Our school grounds are unique. The school itself comprises of one long corridor with classes stemming from this. Our grounds are special – we have a larger than average school field with our own forest school area (and outdoor classroom) as well as a purpose build foundation area (covered for all weather use) and playground with equipment to keep the most active entertained.

Our children behave incredibly well in school and follow our three key principles of being safe, being kind and being ready to learn. Our staff are dedicated to improving the life chances of all children with our shared vision of ‘Nurturing curiosity to allow happy, aspirational children to flourish’.

We offer a wide range of clubs, residentials and whole school experiences as well as a rare overseas residential to France for our oldest children.

Are you someone who wants the best for every child? Plympton St Maurice Primary is a good school (Ofsted January 2020) looking to appoint two Mealtime Assistants to join our Midday Supervision team with effect from 4th November 2024. Post hours are 5 hours per week: Monday to Friday 12.15pm - 1.15pm plus 5 hours over the academic for training purposes.

Requirements of the role:

To ensure that children wash their hands before lunch, enter the hall calmly and line up quietly.

To encourage good table manners and orderly behaviour

To supervise the orderly return of empties to a given point

To wipe down tables as required

To clear up after spillage of food, water or sickness in dining areas during the service of the meal

To encourage children to clear up food and litter they have dropped on the floor

To undertake patrols inside and outside the school in order to maintain good behaviour. This surveillance should not be carried out by pairs of mealtime assistants

To care for the safety and well-being of children

To ensure that children do not leave the school site without appropriate permission

To actively promote and encourage healthy eating

To participate in staff development opportunities

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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.