Midday Supervisor

Painters Ash Primary School, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8EL

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  30 January 2026 at 3pm

• Date listed

  6 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,513.00 - £24,513.00 Annually (FTE) Actual pay per annum is approx, £ 4,200

Midday Supervisor job summary

Key responsibilities will include:

• Setting up tables, cutlery and cups in time for lunch and ensuring there are sufficient settings for the numbers of children eating that day.

• Ensuring pupils enter the dining room in a safe and orderly fashion and behave in an appropriate manner when queuing for their meal.

• Where applicable prepare hot or cold meals based on agreed menus, clean and tidy equipment at the end of each session.

• Assist the pupils, as necessary, during the meal break to ensure their wellbeing. (This may include providing them with a drink, helping with spillages, cutting up food and caring for pupils’ personal needs).

• Ensure plates etc. are cleared from tables in an appropriate manner to maintain a clean and tidy environment, and to free up space for any further sittings where applicable.

• Operate, where applicable, a first aid service during the mealtime to deal with any accidents that occur safely and quickly.

  Supervising children on the playground and School Field, as appropriate.

This is a term time only position for 38 weeks per year and 7.5hrs per week. This role is subject to a DBS check and satisfactory references.

Job share for part week working would be considered for the right candidates.

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.

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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 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 Painters Ash Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 397 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Painters Ash Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/painters-ash-primary-school

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