Senior Midday Meals Supervisor

Horley Infant School, Horley, Surrey, RH6 7JF

47 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2025

• Closing date

  15 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 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: £26,777.00 - £27,715.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata £6,234-6,453

Senior Midday Meals Supervisor job summary

We are looking for a committed, reliable and enthusiastic team-player to lead our fabulous group of Midday Supervisors. The ideal candidate will ensure lunchtimes are a positive and enjoyable part of the day for children and staff and, as a result, a successful lunch-time experience will be had by all.

Senior Midday Supervisors support, induct and lead our Midday team whilst also being happy to get stuck in to the day-to-day tasks required during lunch-times. This will involve:

• Managing the inside and outside team
• Liaising with the admin, teaching and catering team regarding lunches
• Setting up and clearing the tables
• Ensuring children with special diets and medical needs receive the correct/safe food
• Assisting and supervising children during lunchtime (both in the dining hall and playground) to ensure positive behaviours
• Enabling children have an enjoyable and sociable lunchtime experience
• Encouraging healthy eating and good manners.

You will also be a key champion of our OPAL project and will help engage and enhance the team and children in a wide range of games and activities whilst promoting positive play and behaviour and helping children build relationships with others.

Horley Infant School has a positive local reputation whereby we live by our vision and values of “embracing and nurturing the individual” and “inspiring all to achieve”. We pride ourselves on giving a family feel to our school, even though we have nearly 270 children on roll. In May 2018, Ofsted recognised that we continue to be a good school but don’t just take their word for it - feel free to come along and take a look around.

We hope you would agree that being at our school is a lot like the difference between being in a home and being in a house. In our latest Staff Wellbeing Survey, our school staff reported an 11% greater level of job satisfaction than the national benchmark. Maybe this could be your moment to join us?

We are looking for someone who is:

• Patient, tolerant, sympathetic and fair
• Able to support and encourage children
• Hard working and conscientious
• Able to listen to understand
• Calm under pressure and can work independently and show initiative
• Adept at building strong, trusting relationships with adults and pupils

We will offer:

• A competitive salary
• A team of and supportive staff
• access to an employee assistance scheme offering a range of wellbeing and health support initiatives
• Term time working only
• Continued CPD program

Working pattern: Monday to Friday from 11:30am – 1:30pm (10 hours per week term time only, 38 weeks per annum).

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of our Trust. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any specific support or require alternative formats, please contact us.

Applications will be considered on receipt and we reserve the right to close the advert early. As such, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible.

Safeguarding Statement

Greensand Multi Academy Trust 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. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful candidate will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and an overseas criminal records check if you have lived or worked outside the UK within the last 10 years. Shortlisted candidates will also be subject to an online check in accordance with the updated KCSIE statutory guidance.

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 Horley Infant School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 264 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Horley Infant School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/horley-infant-school-horley

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