Midday Supervisor
St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, Manchester, Lancashire, M45 8PT12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 7.5 hours per week; 11.30 am to 1.00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed term until 31 August 2027
Actual salary
- £4249
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring, and reliable Mid-Day Supervisor to join our friendly and dedicated team. The successful candidate will help create a safe, happy, and inclusive environment where children can enjoy their lunchtime, build positive friendships, and return to class ready to learn. As an important member of our school community, you will support children during lunchtime by promoting positive behaviour, encouraging active and purposeful play, and always ensuring their safety and wellbeing. You will work closely with colleagues to provide high-quality care and supervision, contributing positively to the wider life of the school. We are looking for someone who enjoys working with children, values teamwork, communicates positively, and is committed to helping make lunchtimes a fun, safe, and enjoyable experience for every child.
We are seeking an individual who:
- Is enthusiastic, caring, and enjoys working with children, helping to create a safe, happy, and welcoming lunchtime environment where everyone feels included.
- Has a genuine passion for supporting children's wellbeing and understands the importance of positive play, social interaction, and encouraging good behaviour during lunchtime.
- Is reliable, positive, and enjoys working as part of a team, while also using their own initiative when needed.
- Has excellent communication skills and can build warm, positive relationships with children, colleagues, and families.
- Can encourage children to play safely, resolve minor disagreements calmly, and promote kindness, respect, and good manners.
- Is committed to providing high-quality care and supervision, ensuring children's safety and helping every child feel valued, supported, and able to enjoy their lunchtime.
- Is keen to learn, share ideas, and contribute to making lunchtime a positive, enjoyable, and rewarding experience for every child.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- A supportive and dedicated Local Governing Body and Staff
- Highly effective safeguarding procedures.
- A working environment where all feel valued and respected.
- Supportive colleagues and governors with a clear vision and high aspirations for the school.
- A highly dedicated and inspirational team.
- A commitment to relevant, personalised Continuous Professional Development.
- A happy, calm and welcoming working environment.
- Opportunities to work within the wider STOCCAT team
- Generous Local Government Pension scheme employer contribution
- Recognition of continuous Local Government service (where applicable)
The Trust is committed to welcoming individuals regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, sexual orientation or marital status or whether you are pregnant or on parental leave or from a socio-economic background. We welcome applicants from all communities and from people that identify with those characteristics.
Commitment to Safeguarding:
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1074 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check including Children’s barred list check and satisfactory references, including your suitability to work with children. Information provided by you or the Disclosure and Barring Service will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with the DBS's Code of Practice. You may view the Code of Practice on the DBS website atwww.gov.uk/dbsor alternatively a copy is available on request. Applications will only be considered from individual applicants on our standard application form, and not via CV alone or agencies. An online search will be performed on all shortlisted applicants in accordance with the Trust’s safeguarding procedures and Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a form for self-disclosure of cautions and convictions.
Further information about the job
Our Mission
Together we learn, Together we achieve, Together we grow in God’s love.
At St Bernadette’s, we make everyone who enters our school feel welcome, happy, safe and most of all loved. We firmly believe that happiness and well-being are foundational to successful learning. Our values are deeply rooted in our Christian ethos, ensuring that Christ remains at the centre of our educational pursuits.
We are committed to promoting the spiritual and moral development of our pupils, guiding them to embody virtues such as kindness, respect, and compassion. Our curriculum is designed not only to impart knowledge but also to encourage personal growth and a sense of responsibility to one another and the wider community.
Through fostering positive relationships among pupils, staff, and families, we aspire to create an inclusive and supportive atmosphere where every child can flourish and ‘live life to the full’.
We live out our Mission each day by following our ‘Virtues to Live by’. Our Virtues are good habits and a way of acting towards one another. Our Virtues are central to St Bernadette’s as we aspire to be like Christ each day.
Our Trust Mission is simple, it is to make Christ known, making lives better for our communities, our children and young people.
Our Values -One of Hope
Inspired by St Teresa of Calcutta, we are people of hope. We have a complete belief in the future we will build together. By offering our children, staff and schools’ opportunities to grow and flourish, we make aspiration and ambition a reality. Our people, just like St Teresa are relentless and fiercely ambitious. We will always reach for that which seems to be just out of our grasp.
One of Courage
As modelled for us by St Teresa of Calcutta, we will have the courage to do what is right. As a community, we will not shy away from making decisions that ensure our communities thrive. We will be brave in our actions. As a truly Catholic organisation this courage will be most apparent in how we collectively support the most vulnerable.
One of Innovation
St Teresa of Calcutta changed the world. Together, we will always be pursuing new ideas and best practice in all areas of our work. We will prepare our children and young people for the world that awaits them. A world which they will shape and change.
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
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About St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@stoccat.org.uk
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