Midday Supervisor

Midday Supervisor (2 Posts)

Post 1: Part Time, 8.33 hours per week, term time only. Temporary for one year with view to extend. NJC02 £4,574 actual salary

Post 2: Casual hours, as required to cover 11.15 am to 12.55pm - salary NJC02

Please call school upon application to confirm which role you are interested in - TEL: 0115 9155747

We are looking for professional, polite and confident team players who have experience of working with children, ideally in a community setting.

The job involves:

• Being responsible for the safety, welfare and conduct of pupils and of others on the site during the midday break.
• Ensuring reasonable behaviour and safe conduct of pupils by maintaining good order and discipline, dealing as appropriate in line with school behaviour policy.
• Reporting of accidents in the playground in line with the school procedures and guidelines.
• Inspiring a high level of playground interaction and play.
• Responding appropriately to children with differing needs.
• Use of school computer systems.

If you are looking for an adventure and opportunity to work across our school from Nursery to Year 6 then we would like to hear from you. You will be part of a team working collaboratively to develop outstanding practice. If you feel you are ready for this challenge, we would be delighted to welcome you to our dynamic team. We can offer you a very friendly and supportive working environment in our community focused school.

We will appoint someone who:

• has a positive, "can do disposition"
• has excellent all round communication skills
• works flexibly and recognises the specific demands of a school environment
• is a good communicator and has the ability to work within an effective team
• will provide challenging and enjoyable activities throughout the lunchtime period
• deals sensitively and effectively with people
• has understanding, experience and enjoyment of working with children

At Portland Spencer Academy we ASPIRE in all that we do, ensuring the very best for every child. Our children expect you to:

Always smile and listen to our ideas

Succeed in teaching and see potential in us

Praise us when we make good choices

Inspire us and include everyone

Respect us and other members of staff

Everyone should have fun!

Portland Spencer Academy is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ school (November 2023) which reflects our whole school community’s desire to deliver our children with the very best education. We pride ourselves on learning which has kindness and creativity at its core, but which sets children up for a lifetime of success. 

Read more about our Outstanding Ofsted report here: 10254786-Portland-Spencer-Aca-140550-final-pdf.pdf (portlandspencer.org.uk)

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world. 

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe: 

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Debbie Batterbee: info@portlandspencer.org.uk 

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.

Closing date for applications 20th September 2024 at 9 00 am 

Interviews will take place on 25th September 2024

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.   Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. 

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656   

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).  

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer