Midday Supervisory Assistant

Overview

Supervisory Assistant to join a school that makes a difference to its children and supports its staff to achieve their individual goals. We passionately believe there is something special about our Academy – a tangible sense of family and an unwavering commitment to fulfil our motto ‘Endeavour, Excel, Enjoy’.

The successful candidate will be joining our friendly and supportive lunchtime team to engage and supervise the children in the dinner hall and in the playground. Other duties may involve preparing the rooms for dining, including setting out tables and chairs or desks covers as appropriate and cleaning our catering hall after use. The working hours are 1 hour and 30 minutes per day, Monday to Friday, term time only.

You will enjoy working with children and be friendly and caring. Previous experience working in an education environment or experience in a similar role is desirable but not essential. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills which will allow them to engage with pupils and staff.

Heighington Millfield Primary Academy is a Primary school (4 to 11 year olds) and is located in the village of Heighington. Our dedicated team of staff are supportive and aspirational, and in return benefit from an environment which values and celebrates the inputs of individuals to create our Academy vision.

Heighington Millfield Priory Academy is a member of The Priory Federation of Academies Trust, an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff.

All our support staff benefit from annual appraisals, access to CPD opportunities, our Trust Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team.

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.