Midday Supervisors

What will you be doing?

Main Duties and Responsibilities:-

1. To supervise pupils, during the lunch period, in dining hall, playground areas and school premises, ensuring the safety, welfare, physical and mental well-being of pupils.
2. To report to the lunchtime coordinator at the beginning of the lunch period and receive any instructions with regard to duties.
3. To model, recognise and promote positive behaviour and report any incidents as appropriate.
4. To deal appropriately with the management of children’s behaviour within our behaviour policy and anti-bullying policy, referring to a member of the Senior Leadership Team as appropriate.
5. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.
6. To be aware of cultural differences between pupils, dealing with any incidents of racism and sexism in accordance with agreed procedure.
7. To support pupils to deal with conflict and to support them to find suitable solutions together.
8. To arrange and supervise appropriate activities.
9. To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.

Dining Hall
10. To assist with setting up the dining hall tables and chairs before the start of lunch service.
11. To support children to enjoy a lunchtime meal.
12. To organise dinner queue and entrance of pupils into dining halls and from dining halls to playground: ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere.
13. To promote pro-social behaviour and to deal appropriately with the management of children’s behaviour in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
14. To encourage all pupils to eat but especially those with special needs or disabilities and to assist children with cutting up of food, pouring of water etc. where necessary.
15. To encourage social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks.
16. To clean up spillages of food (or encourage children to do so) and to organise clearing cutlery and crockery off tables.
17. To put away tables and chairs at the end of lunch service and sweep the floor, leaving the halls ready for use.

Playground
18. Where appropriate, to collect pupils from classroom ensuring that they are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.
19. To supervise and control entrance and exit to school premises by pupils during the lunch break. Check on any strangers who may enter the school grounds and report any concerns.
20. To ensure that pupils who leave the school site have permission to do so.

School Premises
21. To supervise pupils on the school premises in the hall, classrooms, on stairs and through corridors, when they are not allowed outside because of inclement weather.
22. To ensure that, when classrooms are used during the lunch break because of inclement weather that the children are quietly occupied and that the classroom is left tidy, ready for afternoon school.
23. To check toilet areas regularly to ensure that they are clean and being used appropriately.
24. To:
a. take part in training appropriate to the job of midday supervisor.
b. take part in any appraisal arrangement made by the school.
c. undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of the job.

Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications
• Has some experience of working with children
• Awareness of the importance of safeguarding children
• Enhanced DBS Clearance (this will be carried out by the school for all successful applicants)
• Appropriate first aid training, or the willingness to undertake this
Skills and Personal Qualities
• Is pro-active, energetic, fun, positive and enthusiastic
• Has good interpersonal skills and communicates successfully with adults and children, always maintaining a friendly disposition
• Sets high expectations for pupil behaviour and will support children to resolve conflict following the school’s behaviour code
• Values the personal development and wellbeing of pupils.
• Is emotionally resilient when dealing with challenging behaviours
• Sees play as a learning opportunity
• Has an interest in working with children
• Is able to respond flexibly to change
• Works effectively with the staff team for the continuing improvement and development of the school

About you

​We are looking for one or two kind, positive and energetic people who would be able to help the school on both a temporary basis and an occasional basis assisting our friendly lunchtime team. Midday Supervisors are valuable members of our staff team, helping to support children in the dining hall and in their lunchtime play. These posts are ideal for someone who has some spare time during the day and would like to help the school. No previous experience is necessary.

For more information about the school and to access the application pack for this post, please visit the school website: https://www.fulbournprimaryschool.co.uk/vacancies/ Alternatively, please contact Mrs. Jo Bouttell, Business Manager, for an application pack - email: hr@fulbourn.cambs.sch.uk.

Interview date - to be arranged. 

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers