Midday Supervisor

Lift Charles Warren, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 3AZ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 12:14pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £5187 - £5352 per annum

Midday Supervisor job summary

Could you help us make lunchtimes a safe, positive and enjoyable part of every child's day?

We are looking for a friendly and reliable Midday Supervisor to join our team at Lift Charles Warren. You'll play an important role in supporting our pupils during lunchtime, helping to create a safe, inclusive and positive environment where every child feels supported.

About the role

As a Midday Supervisor, you'll supervise pupils across our dining and outdoor areas, encourage positive behaviour and help ensure lunchtimes run safely and smoothly. This includes helping set up and clear dining tables to prepare the space for lunch and leave it clean afterwards.
You'll build positive relationships with our pupils, support their wellbeing, and work closely with colleagues to address any concerns that arise during lunchtime.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise pupils during lunchtime in dining, playground and other designated areas
• Set up tables prior to lunch service and clear them away at the end of the session
• Encourage positive behavior, respectful interactions and an inclusive environment
• Support pupils' welfare and respond appropriately to any concerns or incidents
• Help maintain a safe, clean and well-organised lunchtime environment
• Support lunchtime activities where required and work closely with the wider school team

We are looking for someone who

You'll be positive, patient and approachable, with the ability to build good relationships with children and work effectively as part of a team.

You'll be able to remain calm, use your initiative and communicate clearly with pupils and colleagues. Experience supervising children or young people is essential, and previous experience in a school or lunchtime supervisory role would be an advantage.

Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to creating a safe, welcoming and enjoyable environment for every child.

Your new school

Lift Charles Warren is a welcoming and inclusive primary school for children aged 4-11, based in Simpson, Milton Keynes.

Alongside our mainstream provision, we have a specialist Communication and Language provision, Butterflies, supporting children from EYFS through to Key Stage 1 who are placed with us by the Local Authority.

Our school is set within extensive grounds, surrounded by trees and a canal, providing a wonderful environment for our children to learn and grow. Our pupils are enthusiastic and eager to succeed, and our dedicated team is committed to ensuring every child feels supported and has the opportunity to thrive.

Who is Lift Schools?

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

This position is 8.75 hours per week.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Lift Charles Warren

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 182 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Charles Warren website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/charles-warren-academy

Thank you for your interest in joining the team here at Lift Charles Warren.
We are very proud and privileged to serve the young people in and around the Milton Keynes area.

In recent years enormous strides have been made to improve progress and attainment and we are very proud that Lift Charles Warren is in the top 1% of all schools for progress and attainment at KS1. Our dedicated teachers and leaders continue to develop a curriculum that inspires and prepares our pupils for their future.

Lift Charles Warren has an exciting future and it is absolutely vital that we attract the right calibre of professional to lead us on our journey to excellence. You will be a colleague who is relentless in their desire to raise standards and improve outcomes; a colleague who is able to enjoy positive, professional relationships with young people, staff and the wider community; and, perhaps most importantly, a colleague who can demonstrate high levels of resilience and emotional intelligence when dealing with complex and sensitive situations.

The Aims of Lift Charles Warren

At Lift Charles Warren we expect the best of everyone. We recognise the transformative power of self-belief, and our children are happy, confident, resilient and self- critical. There are no short cuts and no excuses. We value hard work, determination and ambition, acknowledging and celebrating the variety of ways in which learners can be excellent. We undertake all our work with professionalism, honesty and integrity. A strong moral compass underpins all our work.

We have an inherent belief in the following:
- Everyone is a leader.
- Creating a can-do, solution focused culture.
- Doing it and having impact - make a difference.
- Attention to detail - follow up and follow through.
- Understanding that making mistakes is okay - what’s important is how we learn from them.
- Being outward thinking - adopt a mind-set of restless excellence.

Our Specialism and Awards

We are delighted to have won two National awards from SSAT for progress and Closing the Gap 2015.

We have also been successful in gaining the EYFS Quality Mark and the Quality Mark for the whole school (March 2021)

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