Midday Supervisor

The Carlton Infant Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG4 1QS

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2025

• Closing date

  8 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 6 hours, 25 minutes per week, Permanent, Term Time Only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £3,580.22 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

The pupils, staff and governors at The Carlton Infant Academy wish to appoint an enthusiastic and supportive Midday Supervisor to join the team over lunchtime, from December 2025.

We are keen to appoint someone who is caring, flexible, conscientious and experienced in good behaviour management. We are proud of the positive ethos in our school and we are looking for someone with a calm and efficient manner who can work under pressure and has the ability to communicate effectively with both adults and young children. Lunchtime is an important part of the school day and we are looking for staff to provide high quality play experience for all our children. To be successful in this role, we are looking for applicants to meet the below essential and desirable criteria:

Essential Criteria

Experience & Skills

• Ability to work effectively with children in a school setting.
• Good communication skills with both children and adults.
• Ability to manage groups of children and maintain order during lunchtime

Personal Qualities

• Patience, empathy, and a caring attitude towards children.
• Reliability and punctuality.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and handle minor incidents confidently.

Knowledge

• Awareness of safeguarding and child protection principles.
• Basic understanding of health and safety in a school environment.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience working with children (e.g., in a school, nursery, or youth setting).
• First Aid training or willingness to undertake training.
• Knowledge of positive behaviour management strategies.

Other Requirements

• Commitment to promoting equality and inclusion.
• Willingness to undertake relevant training (e.g., safeguarding, first aid).

Applicants should be able to work as part of a team and ideally have some experience of working with children. The hours of work will be 11.45am to 1.15pm

What the school offers its staff

The Carlton Infant Academy is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The Academy is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities for further information please visit the website.

Benefits

• Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
• The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
• Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

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.

For further details regarding this post please contact Paula Deabill on the Academy number. To apply complete our on-line application form, please use the 'apply now' button.

If you have any questions or queries regarding the application process please contact the HR Team.

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 The Carlton Infant Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 181 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Carlton Infant Academy website
• Email address: p.deabill@thecarltoninfantacademy.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-carlton-infant-academy

Arranging a visit to The Carlton Infant Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email p.deabill@thecarltoninfantacademy.org.uk.

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