Midday Supervisory Assistant

Sprites Primary Academy, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 0SA

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 April 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  17 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,413.00 Annually (FTE) NJC, SCP 2 (£24,413 FTE) - 1.5 HPD (7.5 hours per week) - Term Time only (38 weeks)

Midday Supervisory Assistant job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic Midday Assistant to join our collaborative and growing Academy team at Sprites Primary Academy. You need to be committed to providing children with a safe and enjoyable lunchtime period. You will assist with pupils’ table manners and use of cutlery and will also be responsible for coordinating a range of interactive play activities, administering minor first aid and ensuring the welfare and safety of the pupils. 

As a Midday Assistant, you will be passionate about ensuring the best outcomes for children and giving them every opportunity to succeed. Every child is respected and treated as an individual, with no limits placed on their learning - just opportunities to continually improve. We give all children the opportunity to challenge themselves through a range of tasks and activities - empowering children to take ownership and responsibility for their own learning. 

In particular, successful candidates should have:

• Experience of working with young children 

• Basic understanding of child development and learning

• Enthusiasm and dedication to caring and supporting pupils’ lunch time activities 

You should be: 

• A responsible and reliable person 

• Confident in dealing with young people, maintaining discipline and motivation 

• Able to relate well to pupils and adults

In turn, we can offer you: 

• Great facilities to create a vibrant, stimulating learning environment for children 

• A supportive Leadership team who will encourage innovation and initiative 

• A wider network within REAch2 Academy Trust of support, exceptional practice and excellent CPD 

If you feel you have all the necessary attributes, are highly motivated, committed to making a positive difference to children’s lives and want to be part of creating a legacy for the future - then we'd love to hear from you! 

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why work with us

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:

▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
 
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

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

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.

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 Sprites Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 403 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sprites Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sprites-primary-academy

Our Vision:
A fun and exciting centre of excellence that nurtures and inspires young minds to be fearless…
…and change the world!

Our Aims:
• Provide an environment that is safe, joyful, fair and full of hope
• Nurture our children to become kind, caring, polite citizens of the world
• Break down barriers, smash ceilings, ignite belief so that our pupils become highly aspirational learners
• Deliver a relevant curriculum that tackles the big issues of our times, fearless and filled with controversy and debate so that we motivate our pupils to become passionate, lifelong learners with a truly global outlook
• Place our children at the centre of our world – all of our thinking revolves around their needs
• Create a culture of high expectations, high enjoyment and high challenge
• Become a beacon school where others come to learn; a school that transcends its perceived barriers

We are a caring employer who invests in the future of our employees, as only through their excellence can we deliver excellence for the children and families whom we serve.

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