Midday Supervisor

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  27 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £3,310.00 Annually (Actual)

Midday Supervisor job summary

Midday Supervisor

Permanent contract

5.83 hours per week 12:20 -13:30, Monday - Friday

Term time only (38 weeks per year)

Salary Scale 2 Point 4 -5- Actual Salary £3,310 per annum

Closing date: Sunday 27th September 2026

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced, and efficient individual to join our midday team from September 2026 tosupport the safety and welfare of students during the lunch break.

At Southend High School for Girls, we have high expectations and an unwavering commitment to meeting the needs of our pupils. Our values sit at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to create a safe, happy and successful environment for pupils, families, staff and the wider community. We are proud to be a positive, inclusive and supportive workplace where staff wellbeing and professional growth are prioritised.

Experience of working in an educational environment would be an advantage but is not essential.

The successful candidate will be required to:

Supervise of students collecting lunch from the canteen or collection points

Supervise students in the school buildings and grounds

Encourage social skills and good table manners

Be able to take direction and work well as part of a team

Assist with cleaning dining room area at the end of lunch break

We can offer you:

The opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a well-established, outstanding Grammar school.

A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.

Access to high-quality external CPD.

A positive, supportive staff culture with a strong family ethos.

An environment which promotes innovation

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey

Application forms must be completed in full online on My New Term and must include a supporting statement explaining how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role. CVs will not be accepted.

Interview dates TBC, however we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

For all enquiries please email HR@shsg.org

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS 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 Southend High School for Girls

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1312 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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