Chair of Governors: Mr. Michael Tooze Head Teacher: Miss Sonia Thompson St Matthew’s Primary School is offering a very exciting opportunity for a Lunchtime Supervisor, to join our hard-working lunchtime team, dedicated to making a real difference to the lives of our pupils. You will be part of a successful team responsible for supervising children during the lunch break, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all our children, promoting good behaviour and taking a proactive role in supporting and leading play activities. The hours of work are from 12noon to 1:15pm, Monday to Friday, where you will be responsible for supervising children in the dining hall, classroom and playground areas. We are looking for someone who: can manage pupil behaviour effectively is able to communicate effectively with children and staff with a good standard of spoken and written English has the ability to relate well to children and adults is a good role model for our children can work well as part of a team We offer the successful candidate: a supportive team of staff a well-resourced school with fantastic facilities local government pension scheme employee assistance Programme – free, totally confidential advice, with face-to-face consultations This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.