Midday Supervisor

Avanti Brook Primary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2UW

Deadline is tomorrow

Closing date
12 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 January 2025

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Actual salary: Grade 1, £23,743 - £23,902per annum, pro rata Approximately £5,063 - £5,097 per annum (0.21326 FTE)

What skills and experience we're looking for

About The Role

Salary: Grade 1, £23,743 - £23,902per annum, pro rata Approximately £5,063 - £5,097 per annum (0.21326 FTE). This role is part time, 10 hours per week.

Are you passionate about working with children and creating a fun, safe environment?

We’re looking fora friendly and enthusiastic Midday Supervisor to join our team and help make breaks extra enjoyable for our Primary students!

You will be supervising the students, encouraging positive behaviour, and keeping them engaged in exciting activities. From ensuring safety in the canteen and playground to handling any other situations that arise with care and compassion, you’ll be a key part of their day.

As a key member of the school community, you’ll be a positive role model, helping foster a happy and supportive atmosphere.

If working in a lively Primary school setting excites you, then what are you waiting for? We would love to hear from you - apply today!

School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.

What will you do?

To supervise the children at all times during lunchtime on the school premises.
Ensure that the children are behaving appropriately in line with the schools’ behaviour policy at all times including the dining room, playground and during wet lunch times.
Engage with the children and ensure that they are active in purposeful and co-operative behaviour throughout the lunchtime period.
In the event of any injuries or sickness making sure they are dealt with according to the school’s policy.

What are we looking for?

You will enjoy a challenge and be able to motivate and improve a growing school
Are resourceful, vibrant
Are committed to their own professional development
Will show commitment to the school’s values
You want to be part of a school which is on a journey to excellence
Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

What the school offers its staff

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

Great opportunities for professional development
Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
Flexible working opportunities
Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes

Further details about the role

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

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.