19 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    8 August 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    18 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 7 hours 30 minutes per week - Term Time only (190 days)

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

£4,096 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Establish rapport and respectful, trusting relationships with the students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
  • Promote inclusion and acceptance of all

  • Working alongside school colleagues to supervise students over the lunchtime period ensuring they are treated with dignity, empathy and respect at all times.
  • Assist students with feeding and drinking. Specialist training will be provided as necessary
  • Assist with individualised food preparation as may be necessary e.g. liquidising food
  • Clean all spillages, (which could include bodily fluids) and ensure that the dining area is clean at the end of the lunchtime period.

  • Assess the needs of young people and use detailed knowledge of personal care needs to support them (with appropriate training)
  • Ensure students observe basic hygiene, i.e. hand-washing after toileting and before eating; promoting safety, welfare and personal hygiene at all times
  • Promote self-esteem and independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance
  • Administer basic first aid and deal with sickness, in accordance with training provided.
  • Report and record accidents as required through the associated health & safety procedures
  • Support other colleagues to manage student’s behaviour, following Organisational guidance and reporting difficulties as appropriate.

What the school offers its staff

Local Government Pension Scheme, occupational sick pay, TOIL scheme, Health Benefit Scheme

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About New Bridge School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
School size
717 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

New Bridge Multi Academy Trust (MAT) presently comprises New Bridge School, New Bridge Learning Centre, Spring Brook Academy, Hollinwood Academy (all situated in Oldham) Hawthorns School and Thomas Ashton School (situated in Hyde), Samuel Laycock School (situated in Ashton-Under-Lyne) Our new Oldham AP free school, Spring Board Project, opened in September 2019.

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