Midday Supervisor

St Louis Catholic Academy, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 7AA

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  17 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,796.00 - £24,796.00 Annually (FTE)

Midday Supervisor job summary

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

1. To supervise pupils, during the lunch period, in the dining hall, playground areas and school premises, ensuring the safety, welfare, physical and mental well-being of pupils and the maintenance of good order and discipline.

2. To report to the Senior Midday Supervisor at the beginning of the lunch period and receive any instructions with regard to duties.

3. To monitor the behaviour of pupils, discouraging in a positive way any anti-social behaviour and reporting any incidents to the Senior Midday Supervisor as appropriate.

4. To ensure the welfare, safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.

5. To arrange and supervise appropriate activities under the direction of the Senior Midday Supervisor.

6. To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.

7. Fulfil all safeguarding responsibilities in line with statutory requirements and following school policies

Dining Hall

8. . Before pupils enter the dining hall, to ensure that pupils have visited the toilet and washed their hands where appropriate.

9. To organise dinner queue and entrance of pupils into dining hall and from dining hall to playground: ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere. To deal with any poor behaviour that may occur in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy. Report, as appropriate, incidents to Senior Midday Supervisor.

10. To encourage all pupils to eat but especially those with special needs or disabilities and to assist children with cutting up of food, pouring of water etc, where necessary.

11. To encourage social skills and good table manners, including proper use of knives and forks.

12. To ensure that all plates and cutlery are cleared and stacked before the children go out to the playground.

13. To clean up all spillages of food and to ensure that the tables are wiped down after each sitting.

14. To ensure that the hall’s cleanliness is maintained to a high standard throughout the lunchtime period.

Playground

15. Where appropriate, to collect pupils from the classroom ensuring that they are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.

16. To ensure that pupils who leave the school site have perission to do so.

School Premises

17. To supervise pupils on the school premises in the hall, classrooms and through corridors, when they are not allowed outside because of inclement weather.

18. To ensure that, when classrooms are used during the Midday break because of inclement weather that the children are quietly occupied and that the classroom is left tidy, ready for afternoon school.

19. To check toilet areas regularly to ensure that they are clean and being used appropriately. To report any problems to the Senior Midday Supervisor.

20. To:

take part in training appropriate to the job of midday supervisor.

take part in any appraisal arrangement made by the school.

undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of the job.

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 St Louis Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 295 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Louis Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-louis-catholic-academy

St Louis Catholic Academy is part of Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Multi-Academy Trust. It is a thriving and happy school where the children are central to all that we do. The School is in the horse-racing town of Newmarket, within easy commuting distance of Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Ely, Mildenhall and Thetford.

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