Midday Supervisor

The Bellbird Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB22 3GB

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.85 Hourly

Midday Supervisor job summary

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Term time only 11.45am to 1:15pm each week day. The role includes set up, lunchtime and then clearing away.

We are seeking to appoint a Midday Supervisor to join our team.

We are looking for professional, polite and confident team players

As a school lunchtime supervisor, your tasks during the meal would include:

• helping children who are in difficulties, for example with cutting up food
• encouraging good table manners
• making sure behaviour does not become too boisterous

After the meal you would:

• supervise children in the playground (or in the hall or classroom in wet weather)
• stop any dangerous behaviour
• deal with any quarrels or fights
• comfort children who are upset
• deal with minor injuries such as cuts, grazes and bruises
• sometimes organise games

Skills, interests and qualities

To be a lunchtime supervisor you should have:

• enjoyment of working with children and the ability to control and supervise them
• patience
• the ability to stay calm in an emergency
• good communication skills
• a reasonable level of fitness
• the ability to work as part of a team

The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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

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 The Bellbird Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 410 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Bellbird Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-bellbird-primary-school

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