Midday Support Assistant

Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0EA

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  20 August 2025

• Closing date

  20 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 July 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: £24,408.00 - £24,795.00 Annually (FTE) Actual starting salary

Midday Support Assistant job summary

Midday Support Assistant - Grade 5

To start 20th August 2025

We are looking to recruit staff to support pupils over the lunch period. The role will be linked to specialist care and support for key pupils. You will receive training to support your key pupils to eat their lunch and to be able to complete their personal care.

Would you like to help a young person eat their dinner?

This is an ideal position for someone who wants a few hours work each day during school term times. We are an Area Special School for pupils with Learning Difficulties (aged 3-19). The hours will be 11:30am to 2:00pm daily - Term time only.

Midday Support Assistant post at 12.5 hours per week,

Term time only (39 weeks which includes at least 12.5 hours training), to support pupils at lunchtime

Actual starting salary: £7,057.47

What we need from you:

• Positivity

• Good communication skills

• Good team member

• Flexibility

• Resilience

• Ability to work in a sensitive and supportive way above all you will need to be patient and kind

More information about the school

The successful applicant must be committed to assisting children and young people with complex learning needs who may have physical or sensory disabilities.

At our school, individual differences are recognised and respected but are never seen as a barrier to achievement. By adapting the curriculum and teaching methods we ensure that our pupils have every opportunity to succeed both academically and socially.

We have a great deal of specialist expertise and experience at our school. Therefore, we are able to offer induction, support and training to newly-appointed staff. What is important to us is commitment to our overall ethos and approach. Successful candidates must be willing to undertake training as required for the role.

We work in multi-skilled teams so good teamwork is essential. All staff have responsibility for ensuring the personal care needs of learners are met.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to a check being carried out at an Enhanced level by the Disclosure and Barring Service regarding any previous criminal record.

Dorothy Goodman School is seeking to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable to the above duties under the terms of the Equalities Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.

Dorothy Goodman School shares a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture that embraces the ethos of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

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

Dorothy Goodman School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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 Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 19
• School size: 404 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dorothy-goodman-school-hinckley

Dorothy Goodman School is an all age (from ages 4-19 years) SEN School.
Our children & young people have a wide variety of special educational needs and disabilities including pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities, severe learning difficulties, moderate difficulties and those with Autism. Some children & young people also have social, emotional and mental health difficulties associated with their learning difficulties.

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