Midday Supervisor (Nursery)

Lift Shafton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S72 8QA

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2025

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 10:08am

• Date listed

  17 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Up to £11.61 per hour

Midday Supervisor (Nursery) job summary

Lift Shafton High Street, Barnsley, S72 8QA Salary: NJC 2 (Actual Salary) + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits Hours: 6.25 per week, 38 weeks per year (1 hours and 15 mins per day) Contract: Permanent Interview: 11th November Start date: December 2025 Looking to make a difference every day? In this role, you'll be working closely with our nursery-aged pupils during the lunch period - supporting them in the dining area, encouraging early independence and helping to make lunchtime a positive and reassuring experience. Your key responsibilities will include: * Helping nursery children with eating, including cutting food and opening containers * Sitting with small groups to encourage social skills and conversation * Supporting toilet training and hygiene routines where needed * Supervising play in a calm, age-appropriate way - inside and outside * Noticing and responding to signs of distress, tiredness or discomfort * Reporting any concerns to the nursery or pastoral team You'll play an important part in helping our youngest children feel happy and secure - supporting their first steps in school life. We're looking for someone who is: * Able to work 11:45am to 1:00pm Monday to Friday * Passionate about working with children * Patient and compassionate * Organised and reliable * A team player About our school: Lift Shafton is a welcoming and inclusive school community where every child and every member of staff experiences a genuine sense of belonging. We are proud to provide a supportive, nurturing and joyful environment in which our team works collectively to deliver the outstanding education that our families deserve. Lift Shafton is a truly special place to learn and to work - a professional yet caring community where dedicated and talented staff are valued and enabled to thrive, and where all children, regardless of background or ability, are supported to flourish. We are also delighted to be extending our provision with the launch of a new nursery in January 2026. We are proudly welcoming a new nursery provision to our school from January 2026. Who is Lift Schools? We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had. We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation. We offer you: * Comprehensive training: Access a wide range of developmental training to boost your career. * Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered. * Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. 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. Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered. We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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 is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues 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 Shafton

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 243 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lift Shafton website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/shafton-primary-academy

Welcome to Lift Shafton and thank you for your interest in our school. Shafton village is a small rural community easily reached from Wakefield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield.

Here at Lift Shafton, we are a proud member of Lift Schools and have just been judged as a good school with outstanding leadership and outstanding Early Years.

Our very creative staff have a real love of teaching and we are looking for a future member of our team who can develop that sense of awe and wonder in children. The children at our school are happy, confident, fun-loving and energetic. They are passionate about their learning, be it in the traditional classroom or through drama, music, dance and painting. We are looking for someone who can embrace these aspects of the curriculum as well as literacy and numeracy.

Leadership at our school is forward thinking - and the well-being and work-life balance of our teachers is very important. We give autonomy to teachers and will not dictate planning, marking or teaching styles. We want you to give us your best and our non-negotiables are outstanding attainment and progress for every child, coupled with kindness and warm-heartedness, not what colour pen you use to mark books!

Our school has been recently refurbished and is a modern, bright and attractive place for us all to work. We have a new Early Years classroom and outdoor learning environment.

We welcome visitors and hope that you will come and see for yourself what a happy place Lift Shafton and what makes us the school of choice in our local area.

Thank you for your interest in our school and we look forward to meeting you.

Our aims and expectations

We have a high expectations for all children and a commitment to ensuring all children achieve high standards. We will achieve this by -

Supporting the development of children who –

Feel safe and know that if they have concerns they are listened to and are supported so that they thrive
Who can create, reflect, persevere, are resilient and aspire
Are able to work independently, collaboratively, as part of a team and to lead
Are thoughtful, have the ability to listen, are responsible and supportive of each other and have a strong work ethic
Are creative, analytical, critical and innovative
Have high expectations of themselves and each other
Respect themselves and others
Have endless curiosity, enthusiasm – who want to experience as much as possible and find out all they can
Creating a staff team who –

Are an expert workforce with shared determination to do their best for every child
Question practice and continually try to better meet the needs of all children and are supported in this by a detailed professional development programme
Equip children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
Provide exciting opportunities for children to use and apply their learning to enquiry and problem solving so they develop their understanding of the world
Plan, monitor and evaluate teaching, learning, the curriculum and progress in the school to ensure the development of the whole child
Are proactive and highly skilled at identifying vulnerable children and collaborating with other agencies so that barriers to learning are removed and all children succeed
Help children acquire a range of personal, social and emotional attributes essential to their health and well-being and to life as a responsible citizen
Develop children so they can actively participate in and contribute to the school where they feel respected, safe and supported
In a school which –

Provides a caring, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment in which all children feel respected, safe and supported
Provides a flexible, challenging and purposeful curriculum that is relevant to our children and prepares them for the responsibilities and experiences of life
Offers opportunities to engage with a wide range of cultural experiences
Provides a broad rich curriculum that excites them about learning and the world, is rich in IT to help children participate fully in a constantly changing world
Equips children with the life skills they will need to be independent, reflective, resilient and resourceful learners as well as continuing to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
Values and develops a supportive partnership between home, school and the community
Provides opportunities to engage in a wide range of activities – social, the arts, sports and cultural, that will enrich their lives and develop their confidence, social and moral skills and self-belief
So that the local community has pride and confidence in our school and trusts that their children will succeed and do well here.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.

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