Midday Supervisor

Moorland Primary School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 4ND

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £4,311.53 Annually (Actual) Point 4

Midday Supervisor job summary

Main purpose of the job

As a Midday Supervisor, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our pupils have a safe and enjoyable lunchtime experience. Your responsibilities will include setting up the dinner hall, supervising children, cleaning tables, and encouraging positive play. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working in a lively and dynamic environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

Supervision

Supervise children during lunchtime, ensuring a safe and positive environment

Work collaboratively with other staff to ensure a smooth lunchtime experience

Encourage pupils to eat their lunch and monitor those who don’t, reporting any concerns to the class teacher

Support children in developing good eating habits and table manners

Encourage positive interactions and play among pupils

Monitor pupils that aren’t engaging in positive play and feedback any concerns to class teachers

Follow the schools Behaviour and safeguarding policy at all times

Address any minor first aid needs that may arise

Organisation

Set up and put away the tables, benches and other equipment needed for eating in the lunch area

Manage pupils’ entrance and exit from the lunch area in an orderly and safe manner

Clean up food and water spillages Clean tables, floor and maintain the safety and tidiness of the dining area at all times

Health and Safety

Observe pupils and the environment and act to minimise any identified health and safety risks

Deliver first aid to respond to minor incidents and refer any major incidents to a qualified first aider

Record details of incidents in line with the school’s reporting procedures

Be aware of and support pupils with medical/dietary needs

Promote the school’s policy around healthy eating to pupils

Feedback concerns relating to pupils’ health and safety to a senior member of staff

Behaviour

Ensure that the pupils’ maintain our behavioural expectations and follow our RESPECT values during lunchtime, be a positive role model at all times

Report any incidents of serious misbehaviour immediately to the relevant staff member, in line with the school’s behaviour policy

Take necessary action to minimise disruption and harm to pupils, in line with the school’s behaviour policy

Make sure children tidy up after themselves in the lunch area and when using play resources/equipment

Follow any directions from class teachers on supporting specific pupils with challenging behaviour

Play

Organise play activities to encourage pupils to play and make use of play equipment

Offer educational instruction where needed to help pupils to share play equipment

Help to resolve issues between pupils during play activities

Safeguarding

Make sure pupils remain on the school premises during the midday break

Look out for any unidentified visitors approaching the school and follow the school’s procedures for approaching/reporting individuals

Other areas of responsibilities

Follow the CET code of conduct at all times, including use of social media and acceptable behaviour outside of school.

Maintain professionalism and confidentiality at all times

Read and follow the relevant school policies Undertake training required to develop in the role –

Annual safeguarding training and regular top up sessions are non-negotiable

Commitment to safeguarding

Children have a right to be cared for and protected, protecting them is everyone’s responsibility. Here at Moorland Primary School we have a duty of care to ensure that all users of the school are kept safe from harm. We have an ethos in which children and adults can feel safe, are valued, respected, and listened to. We will never lose sight of the needs of individual children and the duty to take action to safeguard them.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Moorland Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 213 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moorland Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moorland-primary-school-mk6-4nd

We are a thriving primary school providing education for children aged 3 to 11 years old. We work closely with our local Family Centres and a range of other external agencies to ensure that we can support all our children and families as best as we can. We are a friendly, nurturing school and work in partnership with parents and carers to provide an excellent education in a secure, stimulating environment.

We truly believe that "Together we can"



We have developed seven core values for our Moorland community. These are our RESPECT Values of Resilience, Empathy, Self- Awareness, Passion, Excellence, Communication and Teamwork. We believe that a happy child is a successful one, so we are working hard to design a curriculum that is adventurous, challenging and enjoyable. We are committed to ensuring that every child feels valued and we will always aim to provide high quality learning opportunities to enable every child to succeed and become passionate and resilient learners.

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