Lunchtime Supervisor

**Lunchtime Supervisor**

**Status**:Temporary

**Salary**:£20,441per annum **(£4,630 actual salary)**

**Hours**:11.30am-12.45pm-6.15 hours per week

We are currently working with a local trust who wish to appoint enthusiastic, experienced, and committed lunchtime supervisors. All the schools are based in Middlesbrough and Redcar.

In return, we can offer you the opportunity to join a successful academy within a well-established trust. Both the trust and academy have a strong inclusive ethos and an inherent drive for quality.

**What we are looking for**:
We are looking for people who have enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to children and young people with a range of complex needs.

**Safeguarding requirements for the role**:
**Dinner Hall Responsibilities**
- Ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere
- Behaviour management
- Support pupils, as appropriate, while they are eating their dinner.
- Being aware of pupils on special or restricted diets for medical reasons
- Assisting pupils with cutting up food, pouring liquids etc. where necessary
- Encouraging social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks
- Ensuring pupils tidy/clear up in a satisfactory manner.
- Cleaning up spillages
- Supporting children with intimate care if needed
- Sharing responsibility with other lunchtime supervisors and/or teachers for the maintenance of order and discipline in the dining hall area

**Outdoor Play**
- Ensure pupils are adequately dressed for the weather conditions.
- Direction of pupils to the playground and supervision of their activities and behaviour, ensuring their safety and wellbeing, providing emotional support where necessary
- Ensuring safe play in line with the academy policy by engaging in, and modelling, a range of play activities to motivate and enthuse pupils during their lunchtime.
- Preventing behaviour issues, being aware of changes in friendships, encouraging socialising, play etc.
- Behaviour management.
- Supervision and control of pupils inside the premises when they are not allowed outside due to bad weather

**Ancillary**
- Ensuring that any pupils who suffer accident or injury are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the Academy’s agreed procedures.
- Supporting the academy with cleaning before and after lunchtime

**Safeguarding Children**
- The trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.
- To follow the child protection procedures adopted by the academy

**Personal skills and attributes**
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Can communicate effectively with both adults and children.
- Successfully supervise pupils, both in the dining hall and whilst playing on the yard.
- Have a good understanding of how to care for children.
- Demonstrate a proven track record of working successfully as part of a team.
- Flexible and adaptable, even under challenging situations
- Actively promote the ethos of the academy**Job Types**: Part-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 3 months

**Salary**: £10.60 per hour

Expected hours: 10 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Gym membership

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Middlesbrough: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Supervising experience: 1 year (preferred)
- Restaurant management: 1 year (preferred)
- Bar management: 1 year (preferred)
- Hospitality: 1 year (preferred)
- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Management: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person