Midday Meal Supervisor

Status: Permanent
Hours/Percentage of Week: 7.50
Weeks per year: 38 (term-time only) / 52
Grade: BEXLEY 04 spinal point 41
Post Start Date: Immediate or as soon as possible
Closing Date for Applications: Noon on Monday 18th September 2017

Are you looking for a great opportunity to join our happy and thriving school? Are you passionate and committed to working with children? Are you a team player? Upton is a great place to work, with a welcoming community of children and adults, a new and attractive environment and a determined vision for the future. We need a dedicated, supportive and hard-working member of our MDS team to help to provide happy and safe lunchtimes for all of our children.

For further information about the school please visit the school website: www.upton.bexley.sch.uk

For further details regarding this vacancy and/or an application pack please email Caroline Douglas, School Business Manager, at cdouglas@upton.bexley.sch.uk

Closing date is noon on Monday 18th September 2017. Interviews will be held during week beginning Monday 26th September 2017. References will be requested for those short listed ONLY and prior to interview. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

This post is considered to be a customer facing position; as such it falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out below. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

• Ability to speak with confidence and accuracy, using accurate sentence structures and vocabulary
• Ability to choose the right kind of vocabulary for the situation in hand without a great deal of hesitation
• Ability to listen to customers (staff and children) and understand their needs
• Ability to tailor your approach to each conversation to be appropriate to the customer (staff and children), responding clearly with fine shades of meaning, even in complex situations

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.

The school is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery.

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