Midday Assistant

Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 2UW

33 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
7 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 December 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: Pathway 1, £6,086 - £6,181, (FTE £23,656 - £24,027) per annum

Midday Assistant job summary

Midday Assistant

Contract: Part time, Permanent

Hours: 11.25 hours, 38 weeks (term time only)

Working pattern: Monday to Friday, 11.15am – 1.30pm

Salary: Pathway 1, £6,086 - £6,181, (FTE £23,656 - £24,027) per annum

Site: Thomas Deacon Academy

Closing date: 9am, 7th January 2025

Start date: ASAP

Please note the trust may decide to withdraw the advert before the closing date or interview suitable candidates prior to the advert closing.

Do you enjoy working with children and making a positive impact on their day?

Are you looking for a role where you can help create a safe and enjoyable environment?

Join our team at Thomas Deacon Academy as a Midday Assistant!

Your role:

As a Midday Assistant, you will supervise and support pupils during lunchtime, ensuring their safety and promoting appropriate behaviour. You will also facilitate a smooth and orderly lunch period, challenge inappropriate behaviour, handle incidents, and report them. Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all students is a key part of your role.

To be successful in this role, you should have the ability to manage groups of students and work as part of a team. Strong communication skills with colleagues and students are essential, as is the ability to encourage high standards of behaviour and remain calm under pressure. Flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of the Academy are also important. Knowledge of safeguarding in education is essential, and experience working with children and young people is desirable.

About us:

At Thomas Deacon Academy, we pride ourselves on creating a supportive and dynamic environment for both students and staff. Our midday team plays a crucial role in ensuring a positive and safe lunchtime experience for our students. We offer a welcoming and inclusive community, opportunities for professional development and training, and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Why work for us?:

We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust and we can offer you:

- Progression opportunities across the Trust

- Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching

- Access to the most generous pension schemes in the UK (LGPS & teachers’ pension scheme)    

- Free flu vaccinations

- Cycle to work scheme

- Recommend a Friend Reward scheme

- Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme

- Trained Mental health first aiders

- Collaborative working across schools in the Trust

If you have the skills we are looking for, we can’t wait to meet you!

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Thomas Deacon Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

At Thomas Deacon Education Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Join us in fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where all contributions are valued.

If you have any questions regarding this post, please contact the HR Team on e-mail at hrteam@tdet.education

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.