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Job Ref No. ECC2006-138S Position Type: Teaching/Child Support Pay Range: Scale 2, Points 3 to 4
Position Start Date: Immediate Contract Type: Part-time Contract Term: Permanent
Application Close: 13/11/2025 Midday Date of Interviews: 17th November 2025  

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Role: Midday Assistant

Pay Scale: Scale 2, Points 3 - 4. (£24,796 - £25,185 FTE)

Hours: Monday to Friday, 11:45am to 1pm, term time only. (6 1/4hrs a week)

Actual Salary: £3502.47pa (£12.85ph)

We offer; An excellant contributory pension scheme & 5.6 weeks holiday pay.

Start Date: ASAP

We are looking to recruit a Midday Assistant to join our friendly team here at Lexden Primary School.

Our MDA's are essential in helping to ensure that lunchtime is safe and enjoyable for our pupils. A First Aid qualification would be an advantage, but training will be provided as necessary.

Key responsibilities for this post include:

  • Securing the safety, welfare and good conduct of our pupils during the lunchtime break
  • Supervision of pupils eating lunch in the dining hall and on the playgrounds and around the school premises
  • Administrating first aid

Successful candidates will need to:

  • be light hearted and caring
  • be enthusiastic about the children's individual talents and needs
  • be firm but fair when managing behaviour
  • be flexible within their role, good team players and able to work on their own initiative

We welcome visits to the school, to arrange a tour please telephone the school office; 01206 573519

Information about the School

At Lexden Primary School we aim to provide every child with a stimulating and caring environment where creativity and challenge inspire academic success and individual fulfilment. We work tirelessly to unlock the potential of every child and encourage them to achieve as highly as possible.

Our school is lively and inclusive; we are proud of the wide range of learning opportunities provided for all children, both within the curriculum and through our links to the wider community.

The teaching and support staff form a dedicated team fully committed to meeting the needs of our children and we encourage a close partnership with parents/carers to ensure that children develop the social and emotional skills that are required to get the most out of life.

Our school is well maintained and boasts extensive grounds providing a large playing field, a Forest School area and two playgrounds. The outdoor pavilion provides shelter and is used as an outdoor classroom. We have seven main classrooms, a Nursery and a enhanced provision for the teaching of Hearing Impaired Children. The Nursery has places for 26 part-time pupils and they are involved in the social life of the school, helping them experience a very successful transition to our reception class in the mainstream school.The enhanced provision has 18 places and caters for pupils who are severe/profoundly deaf from across the whole of North East Essex.

We are aiming for excellence in every aspect of school life. We believe this is achieved by promoting our values.

Community - We respect the world around us and the people we share it with

Courage - We are brave and believe in ourselves; we take responsibility for our own actions

Curiosity - We are always ready to learn new things

Commitment - We persevere; always doing our best in all that we do

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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Contact Information

Alex Candler
Trafalgar Road, Colchester
Essex, CO3 9AS
Telephone: 01206 573519
Email: admin@lexden.essex.sch.uk

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