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Midday Assistant
Contract: Part Time Permanent
Hours: 8.75 per week (11.15am-1pm Monday to Friday)
Working weeks: 39 weeks (term time plus 5 INSET)
Scale 2 Points 3-4
Actual Salary: £4609.£4686 pa dependent upon experience
• Would you like to work in a brand new school?
• Are you patient, caring and understanding?
• Do you have a flexible and cheerful outlook?
We are looking to appoint enthusiastic, friendly people to take care and manage children during their lunch break. Your primary role will be to ensure our children feel safe, secure and happy during their lunch break. You will also help model our lunchtime ethos of family dining; helping others, good table manners, taking risks when trying new foods. The successful candidate will be flexible in their attitude and able to work as part of a team. Duties include both supervising children whilst they eat their lunch and during outside play. Full training will be given.
We offer:
• An opportunity to develop as the school grows
• A commitment to on-going professional development
• Strong links with the community
• A school committed to staff wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Benefits platform and Cycle to Work and Tech Schemes
Deadline for applications: Midday 9 May 2024. Interviews to be held on 17 May 2024
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual 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;
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 in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.
Information about the School
Lakelands Primary School is a brand new primary school that opened in September 2020 with state of the art facilities in Stanway, Colchester. Year on year the school will grow, providing 420 places for local children between four and eleven years old by 2026. At Lakelands Primary School we are creating a new school where children can thrive and flourish and fulfil their potential.