Midday Supervisory Assistant (MDSA)

Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2025

• Closing date

  4 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  23 September 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: £6,266.00 - £6,266.00 Annually (Actual) Term time only 38 weeks per year

Midday Supervisory Assistant (MDSA) job summary

The job

Our Midday Supervisory Assistants (MDSAs) play a vital role working alongside our class teams to support our amazing students to develop their self-help and independence skills over lunch time.

Staff usually work with individual students or small groups to assist them with eating their lunches, personal care, support on the playground and managing their behaviours.

Promoting good communication skills is a key element of the role; good spoken English skills are essential.

Some of our students require additional physical support with personal care and understanding how to regulate their emotions and behaviours.

MDSAs play a key role in ensuring that the students are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.

Hours

11.45am - 2.00pm, daily.

11.25 hours per week, term-time only

Salary

Actual salary £6,266

Working in a special school is a unique and privileged opportunity for the right person. We advise interested parties to ensure they have watched our school video in order to get a flavour of our school.

Application form

When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all the points in the essential column on the person specification. The letter of application should not exceed 750 words.

Closing Date

The closing date for applications is Friday 3 October at midnight.

Visits to the school

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to visit the school in the week beginning 6 October, to spend time in a classroom,

Interviews

Interviews will be held during on Monday 13 October.

At Woodlands School we are committed to safeguarding our students and promoting their welfare.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.

IT IS AN OFFENCE TO APPLY FOR A ROLE WORKING IN REGULATED ACTIVITY IF YOU ARE BARRED FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN

PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED POLICIES - Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy - Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

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

Woodlands Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children.

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 Woodlands Secondary School

• School type: Special school, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 263 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodlands Secondary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-secondary-school

Woodlands is a large secondary special school located in the north of Luton. Our mission statement is to 'Empower our young people to become successful adults.'
Our students have severe or profound learning difficulties, some have additional learning needs.
We have developed and refined our ambitious curriculum offer to meet the needs of the different cohorts of learners to ensure that learning is interesting, relevant and functional.
We have great facilities on site and aim to enrich learning by accessing the community and applying learning beyond the classroom.

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