Job Description
Children, Education and Justice Services
Breakfast Club Assistant
St Margaret's RC Primary School
Salary: £24, - £24, (pro-rata for part-time and sessional)
Hours: 5.4 per week, 38 weeks sessional
Working pattern: Monday - Friday 7:45 - 8:50
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time, term time, Breakfast Club Assistant in St Margaret's RC Primary School.
Breakfast clubs provide a healthy start to the day and offer opportunities to take part in social and physical activities before the academic school day begins. Breakfast clubs promote children’s attendance, punctuality and readiness to learn.
They also provide support for parents and carers who are in work or training or for those in need of additional support before the start of the school day. Breakfast clubs have a key role in addressing food insecurity by ensuring that no child starts their school day hungry.
Key Aims of the Breakfast Club Programme are:
• To ensure that every child attending a City of Edinburgh Council mainstream primary school has access to breakfast club provision delivered in a safe, nurturing and caring environment, by appropriately trained staff.
• To increase the number of children eating a healthy breakfast, which will help them engage in learning and improve their general health.
• To promote the social aspects of eating together by encouraging social skills and good citizenship.
• To support parents/carers in work, training and education, particularly where families are experiencing economic disadvantage.
Key Objectives of the Breakfast Club Programme are:
• To promote a holistic, whole school approach towards children’s health and wellbeing – physical and emotional.
• To ensure that breakfast is a calm and relaxed, social occasion for the children, in readiness for the start of the school day.
• To increase the children’s life skills by encouraging their participation in the daily breakfast routines.
• To provide social and emotional support and help with homework where appropriate.
At St Margaret’s RC PS, we place our children at the centre of all we do - believing that in the right environment where everyone’s needs are recognised and met, everyone can learn and grow. We nurture and promote partnerships between staff, pupils, parents and the community to encourage all learners to be the best they can be. We are inclusive, embrace diversity and respect everyone as equal. We aim to live out the agreed values of Love, Respect and Kindness.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
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As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
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