An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join our support staff at Wimborne First School & Nursery, part of Hamwic Education Trust (HET).
HET is a large, fast-paced trust with currently 36 academies across the South Coast. Linked to 6 community-based partnerships, there are 33 primary academies, 2 secondary and 1 hospital school.
In this school, awarded ‘Good’ by Ofsted we are seeking to recruit a Midday Supervisor to join our team. Wellbeing is at the heart of our leadership, and we strive for quality teaching and a healthy work/life balance.
‘All about the Child’
At HET, we aim to put the child at the centre of everything we do. We believe that by doing this, it drives our ethos and values to do the best we can for our children.
‘What about Sam?’
Sam is the name we have given to the notional Hamwic child. By asking ourselves ‘What about Sam?’ we ensure that we put our pupils at the heart of our decision making.
Job/person summary:
Wimborne First School and Nursery currently has a vacancy to join our friendly, hardworking and experienced lunchtime team. Our lunchtime supervisory assistants are required to work, 7.5 hours per week, term time only. You will need to be a good timekeeper, caring and confident when dealing with pupils, a good communicator, a calm organiser and be able to work well in a team.
We are seeking a professional individual who will:
- supervise the children in the dining areas, playground, classrooms or other parts of the school premises
- ensure children are safe and secure
- encourage pupils to eat in a socially acceptable manner and to behave sensibly and quietly in the dining area
- be a role model, promoting good conduct and behaviour, and deal with any problems arising from unruly behaviour or other breaches of the schools’ rules, reporting serious issues to senior members of staff
- assist with associated duties (e.g. cleaning up spillages, ensuring tables are clean, packing tables away, etc.)
- provide welfare support to the pupils, including undertaking first aid duties (training provided)
- make lunchtimes a happy and fun period
- to support the aims, values and policies of the school and participate in a team approach to all aspects of school life
- to attend and contribute to regular staff meetings and in service training, and identify areas of personal practice and experience to develop
- to be aware of safeguarding and confidential issues linked to home/child/teacher/school work and to keep confidences appropriately
We can offer you:
- excellent CPD opportunities and training and development programmes
- in-house teaching school
- an individual induction programme supported by a mentor
- networking groups for Teachers, Business Managers, Site Teams and IT staff
- eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
- generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service
- free eye tests up to the value of £25 for users of VDU equipment and contribution up to the value of £60 towards the purchase of glasses specifically for the use of display screen equipment, where all conditions are met
- opportunity to become a school workplace health and wellbeing representative, meeting with other schools on a termly basis and feeding into the health and wellbeing strategy
- access to the trust health and wellbeing pages
- access to a staff benefits portal through Vivup
- free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for staff and family members