Midday Assistant

Stephen Freeman Primary School, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7BZ

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  11 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  27 November 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 Annually (FTE) £12.26 per hour, 7.5 & 3 hours per week, 38 weeks per year (term-time only)

Midday Assistant job summary

We have 2 opportunities for someone to join our Lunchtime Team, here at Stephen Freeman School. 1 x 5 days a week position and 1 x 2 days per week position, both positions start at 11.30am - 1.00pm.

In your day-to-day duties you could:

• help children cut up their food, if needed
• encourage good behaviour and table manners
• supervise children in the playground (or indoors if wet weather)
• comfort children who are upset
• deal with minor injuries like cuts, grazes and bruises
• organise games indoors/outside

The role of a Midday Assistant is to supervise the children, supporting them with eating appropriately, ensuring drinks are provided and helping with the social skills of sharing lunchtime with peers. The clearing up of spillages, wiping of tables and support of children wiping trays etc. and the leaving of the dining area in a clean and tidy condition form part of the duties, but come second to supervision.

When the weather is suitable, children may play on the fenced playground/field area as appropriate and part of your role will be to engage with students and ensure their welfare whilst on their lunch break, in line with Health and Safety policy/procedures, Fire Safety policy and Safeguarding policy/procedures. All necessary training will be provided. All incidents dealt with should be reported to class teachers at the end of lunchtime, unless very serious (verbal/physical aggression) when the Head should be called immediately.

The successful applicants will be required to undertake DBS Checks, in line with Safer Recruitment Legislation, as well as having general online information searches completed.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Stephen Freeman Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 420 pupils
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Stephen Freeman Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stephen-freeman-primary-school (opens in new tab)

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