Midday Assistant
| Posting date: | 13 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | Witham, Essex, CM8 2NJ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5296defe-dd31-43c9-a641-b4fda194e95c |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Duties include:
• Preparing and/or clearing the dining hall
• Encouraging good dining room practices
• Provide playground supervision and support
• Provide basic medical care where necessary (training will be provided)
• Encouraging group games
• Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our children
You must have:
• a flexible "can-do" approach
• the ability to communicate with children
• good organisational skills
• patience and understanding
What the school offers its staff
• Positive and happy children
• A supportive, dynamic and caring team
• Professional development
• Good links with other local schools within our MAT
• A supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Inspires Multi-Academy Trust are committed to: Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people; promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued; promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs; and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment. and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.
Duties include:
• Preparing and/or clearing the dining hall
• Encouraging good dining room practices
• Provide playground supervision and support
• Provide basic medical care where necessary (training will be provided)
• Encouraging group games
• Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our children
You must have:
• a flexible "can-do" approach
• the ability to communicate with children
• good organisational skills
• patience and understanding
What the school offers its staff
• Positive and happy children
• A supportive, dynamic and caring team
• Professional development
• Good links with other local schools within our MAT
• A supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Inspires Multi-Academy Trust are committed to: Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people; promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued; promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs; and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment. and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.