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SalaryAbout The Role
Hours per week: 6.5 hrs per week (11.55-1.10pm Monday to Friday Term time only)
Lunchtime supervisors support the catering staff to supervise children eating their hot meals in our school hall and then facilitate and support children while out at play.
What we can offer you
- By working at our school, you will be making a positive contribution to our local community
- An opportunity to work with wonderful children
- Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Free on-site parking
- training including first aid and food hygiene
- Being part of the Wessex multi academy trust
Who we are looking for
The school is currently working hard to promote a positive atmosphere at lunch times and our key priority is to appoint someone who can support us with this. The key qualities for this job are:
- the ability to relate to children and support them in the playground context;
- readiness to undertake some lifting and handling of tables and chairs on a rota basis with other staff. (Manual handling training will be provided);
- the ability to work as part of a team;
- good communication skills;
- a calm, patient manner;
- undertake a successful DBS check
Puddletown First School welcome applications from individuals who can demonstrate good interpersonal skills, the willingness to work in a team, are supportive of the school's ethos and have experience in positive behaviour management.
Further Information
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and paid annual leave entitlement for an employee under 5 years’ service.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.
