Midday Meals Supervisor
Featherby Junior School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6BT12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
30th August 2025
Closing date
21 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 June 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
- Grade E2 points
Midday Meals Supervisor job summary
Join Our Team as a Midday Meals Supervisor at Featherby Infant & Nursery School!
Hours: 10 hours per week, term-time only (39 weeks)
Are you passionate about supporting children in a nurturing environment? Featherby Infant & Nursery Primary School is looking for a dedicated and caring Midday Meals Supervisor to join our team. In this part time role, you'll help ensure children have a safe, positive, and enjoyable lunchtime experience.
About the Role:
As a Midday Meals Supervisor, you'll work alongside our team to supervise pupils during lunchtime, ensuring safety and promoting positive behavior. You’ll help maintain an orderly dining area and assist children as needed, supporting their social development and wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities:
Supervise children during lunchtime, both in the dining area and playground.
Support children with meal choices, encourage healthy eating, and address behavior concerns when necessary.
Assist with maintaining safe and orderly arrangements in the school and dining areas
Comply with health and safety regulations and school safeguarding policies.
Featherby Infant and Junior School, part of the Maritime Academy Trust, is located in Gillingham, Medway. Rooted in the belief that every child is unique and full of potential, we focus on nurturing curiosity, confidence, and a love for learning — and this extends into our approach to lunchtime play. Children enjoy a wide range of activities and resources across our spacious site, designed to promote creativity, collaboration, and communication. Our play ethos encourages problem-solving, independence, and respectful relationships, helping children grow not just academically, but personally and socially too.
We offer:
A welcoming, inclusive, and supportive school community
Opportunities to contribute to a nurturing environment where children thrive.
National terms and conditions, including Local Government Pension scheme.
Early salary access scheme and financial guidance.
Staff wellbeing initiatives and a supportive work environment.
If you’re enthusiastic about supporting children in a vibrant and friendly school, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and become part of the Fetherby Nursery & Infant School team..
We encourage visits to our school so you can see what makes us so special. To arrange a visit, please contact the school office on 01634 231984
You’ll find further details about the role, school, and trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Applications must be submitted online via the My New Term website before the deadline. Please note that we may interview and appoint candidates as applications are received, so don’t delay—apply today!
Featherby Partnership Schools is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
The Trust and its academies are committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with Hiring Managers to be discussed at interview stage.
Further information about the Trust is available at www.Maritimeacademytrust.org and the school at https://www.featherby-jun.medway.sch.uk/
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS clearance and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Featherby Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 360 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Featherby Junior School website
Featherby Junior School is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich and Kent. Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.
The Featherby Partnership is made up of 2 schools: Featherby Infant and Nursery and Featherby Junior who are working closely together like one school. We are going forward through an exciting period of change with a new leadership team and a collaborative approach to ensure consistency of high expectations for the whole of the Featherby community. At Featherby you will find a true passion for learning, happy and safe children, a purposeful environment and an inspiring curriculum. We believe these are the key ingredients that make a Featherby child stand out from the rest.
Our vision statement is 'Working together to inspire minds through inclusive and creative practice; aspirations are high for all'. Underpinning this we have our core values of unity, resilience, responsibility, respect, honesty and trust. We are very much a value lead school which underpins our whole approach. Featherby is an inclusive school that supports learners well and encourages them to be independent and take risks in their learning.
We have high expectations of behaviour at Featherby and promote positive praise amongst learners.
Working in collaboration with each other ensures that we build strong relationships with families, children and the wider community to continuously provide children with great learning opportunities!
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