School Meals Supervisory Assistant x2
| Posting date: | 17 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 November 2025 |
| Location: | Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 2HL |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | dd75a703-184f-4480-aa72-f10b988e39db |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Pupil Safety & Welfare: Ensure the safety, welfare, and good conduct of all pupils throughout the lunch break, both in the dining area and in the playground.
• Behaviour Management: Supervise and manage pupil behaviour positively, implementing the school's behaviour policy and resolving minor conflicts and disputes.
• Dining Hall Supervision: Oversee the orderly entry and exit of pupils, encourage good table manners, and assist children with eating their school meals or packed lunches, providing special help to those who need it.
• First Aid & Reporting: Administer minor first aid, provide comfort to distressed pupils, and ensure all accidents, injuries, and serious behaviour issues are reported and recorded immediately to the appropriate staff and in the correct way.
• Area Setup & Cleanup: Assist with the cleaning down of the dining hall (tables, chairs, cutlery, etc.), including wiping surfaces and dealing with food or drink spillages.
• Playground Engagement: Organise and supervise play activities and games, ensuring all children are included.
• Safeguarding: Be fully aware of and adhere to the school's safeguarding/child protection policies, reporting any concerns about a child's welfare to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
What the school offers its staff
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Access to workplace and wellbeing support services.
• A genuine sense of belonging in a family of schools rooted in strong values.
• A comprehensive induction and support programme.
• A culture where curiosity, collaboration, joy and challenge drive professional growth.
• A real commitment to work–life balance: your wellbeing matters to us. We want you to thrive, both at work and beyond it.
Commitment to safeguarding
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.
• Pupil Safety & Welfare: Ensure the safety, welfare, and good conduct of all pupils throughout the lunch break, both in the dining area and in the playground.
• Behaviour Management: Supervise and manage pupil behaviour positively, implementing the school's behaviour policy and resolving minor conflicts and disputes.
• Dining Hall Supervision: Oversee the orderly entry and exit of pupils, encourage good table manners, and assist children with eating their school meals or packed lunches, providing special help to those who need it.
• First Aid & Reporting: Administer minor first aid, provide comfort to distressed pupils, and ensure all accidents, injuries, and serious behaviour issues are reported and recorded immediately to the appropriate staff and in the correct way.
• Area Setup & Cleanup: Assist with the cleaning down of the dining hall (tables, chairs, cutlery, etc.), including wiping surfaces and dealing with food or drink spillages.
• Playground Engagement: Organise and supervise play activities and games, ensuring all children are included.
• Safeguarding: Be fully aware of and adhere to the school's safeguarding/child protection policies, reporting any concerns about a child's welfare to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
What the school offers its staff
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Access to workplace and wellbeing support services.
• A genuine sense of belonging in a family of schools rooted in strong values.
• A comprehensive induction and support programme.
• A culture where curiosity, collaboration, joy and challenge drive professional growth.
• A real commitment to work–life balance: your wellbeing matters to us. We want you to thrive, both at work and beyond it.
Commitment to safeguarding
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.