Playground Assistant

**Salary**:
Competitive, depending on experience

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
January 2025

18 November 2024

**Job overview**:
**Playground Assistant & Lunchtime Supervisor - January 2025**

We are looking to appoint a Playground Assistant & Lunchtime Supervisor at our popular co-ed school in the heart of Notting Hill who will be part of a highly committed and passionate team.

The role requires someone who has a natural ability to interact with children, has a friendly, approachable disposition and can work efficiently and calmly under pressure. Duties will include: encouraging good behaviour in the playground and at lunchtime; checking the safety of playground equipment; accompanying children to the First Aider and; helping with the safe movement of children between sites.

NHP is a ‘Thinking School’, a title which reflects its intelligent approach to education and its devotion to instilling in its children the values of resilience, creativity and responsibility, which it holds dear. The successful applicant must fully support the ethos of the school.

This position will involve contact with, and responsibility for, children and will amount to ‘regulated activity’.

The role is term time only, for 20.5 hours per week over 5 days.

The salary is competitive. Free school lunches are provided.
- The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS_.
- The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless they are ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children._
- NHP is an equal opportunities employer._

**About **Notting Hill Prep School**:
**Notting Hill Prep School**
- 95 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill- London- W11 1QQ- United Kingdom+44 20 7221 0727

**Headteacher**:
Mrs Maxine Shaw

Notting Hill Preparatory School is a mixed, non-denominational independent primary school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, serving students from the age of 4-13. The primary school, situated in Notting Hill has approximately 400 students on record.

Notting Hill Preparatory School opened in 2003, set up through the collaboration of parents and teachers. The school opened new buildings in 2009 and 2018, with facilities including a computer suite and specialist art, music and science rooms.

**Values and vision**:
Notting Hill Preparatory School’s vision is to welcome students into a close knit community where they can be inspired to learn in a modern teaching environment. The primary school installs the core values of kindness, courtesy and concern for others, wanting students to be happy and feel cared for during their time learning. It is important to the school that children feel respected and acknowledged as individuals, and encourages them to share their views and ideas in the classroom in order to challenge their thoughts and gain in confidence. Students are nurtured to become the best version of themselves while at the same time enjoying their childhood. A wide range of extra-curricular activities are available for children to get involved in and gain new skills, including music, sport and drama.

**Independent School Inspectorate**:
“The personal qualities of pupils within the context of the school’s life are significant. Pupils are tolerant and respectful of each other’s differences and collaborate exceptionally well when working together. They are given many opportunities for responsibilities and accept these with enthusiasm and pride.”
- View Notting Hill Preparatory School’s latest ISI report