Midday Assistant

Lime Academy Watergall, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 8NX

40 days remaining to apply

Closing date
31 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 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: £23,656.00 - £24,027.00 Annually (FTE) NJC points 2-3, part time 7.5 hours per week (TTO)

Midday Assistant job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Borough's of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who has :

- experience of working with children

t. - the ability to communicate effectively

- experience to encourage and lead positive and active play experiences and opportunities

- experience of supporting and fostering positive relationships between children as they play together

The ideal candidate will be caring, responsible and able to work as part of a team. In this role, you will ensure the safety and wellbeing of children during the lunchtime period, supporting the school’s policy for promoting positive behaviour. Previous experience of working as a midday supervisor within a primary school would be an advantage.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

Visits to our school are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office on 01733 264238 for more details about the role or to arrange visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.

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.