Lunchtime Supervisor

Are you seeking a new opportunity to join a highly successful comprehensive school that is committed to providing an outstanding education of excellence for all? Would you thrive when working with other committed and innovative members of staff? If so, The Halley Academy is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Lunchtime Supervisor.

The Halley Academy is seeking to appoint a Midday Supervisor to join us as soon as possible. You will be working as part of a team, assisting the Academy Leadership Team in ensuring the safety and welfare of pupils during the midday lunch break. This will involve effective supervision of students in and about the Academy site in accordance with the high expectations that we have of all students. Midday Supervisors act as role models for our students, as friendly and familiar faces in our staffing body. 

Our ideal candidate will:

• Supervise students and manage their behaviour in the restaurant and the playground at break and lunchtimes, including orderly queuing when necessary.
• Take responsibility for students' welfare, safety and supervision during the lunch break.
• Act as a role model and encourage good behaviour amongst students.
• Deal with any spillages in the dining hall in accordance with infection control procedures.
• Ensure students are directed to the appointed First Aider when needed. 
• Ensure, in accordance with instructions given, that all students return to class at the end of the lunch period.

Please read the attached job description for more information on this role.

We pride ourselves on having a diverse and dynamic staffing body of committed, creative and hardworking support staff who enjoy coming to work as they benefit from: 

• A committed, supportive and successful team.
• Opportunities to collaborate with, and learn from, colleagues across the Leigh Academies Trust.

Previous experience of a role in an educational setting is desirable. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We’d like to hear from you if you are keen to: 

• Support students to behave calmly, sensibly and safely during lunchtime, in accordance with our Academy values.
• Contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the Academy.
• Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other staff professionally.

The working hours will be 12.15pm – 2.15pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and 11.30am - 1.30pm on Wednesday, during term time only. Our ideal candidate, due to the nature of the role, will live locally to the school and have a flexible approach to working. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis so early applications are encouraged. 

This is a permanent position working 10 hours per week, term time only and offering an actual salary of £6,305 per annum (£25,983 full time equivalent)

Welcome to The Halley Academy - Click here to view a message from Ben Russell (Principal). 

I am delighted to welcome you to The Halley Academy. We are an aspirational, disciplined and inclusive academy where human-scale education, a dynamic curriculum, and excellent teaching and pastoral care, maximise student achievement. 

We build strong partnerships with parents and carers, working closely together to ensure all students enjoy a fulfilling and rewarding education. Our teachers lead with professionalism and scholarship; they are experts in their field and love sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for their subject with their classes. All of us are part of a warm and compassionate family of staff, Governors and Trust colleagues who have boundless ambitions for those we work with and a deep commitment to learning and self-improvement. We know that working with children every day is the best job in the world. 

The Halley Academy has a diverse and dynamic staffing body of committed, creative and hardworking educators who enjoy coming to work as they benefit from: 

• A calm, organised and professional learning environment; 
• An academy culture that is committed to the holistic development of children; 
• Evidenced-based teaching and learning policies rooted in the strongest possible evidence about how children learn best; 
• A clear and consistent behaviour policy which ensures that disruption to learning is minimal; 
• A visible and approachable leadership team; 
• A comprehensive weekly CPD programme that supports all staff in their academic and pastoral roles; 
• Opportunities to collaborate with, and learn from, colleagues across the Leigh Academies Trust.

This is an exciting time for colleagues to be joining our Academy community. Our first cohort of Halley Academy students achieved the best ever GCSE results in the school’s history in August 2023. We’re immensely proud to now be one of the top performing mixed comprehensive schools in Greenwich, and we were celebrated in Schools Week magazine as the third most improved school in the country for the progress of disadvantaged pupils, compared with pre-pandemic performance. Our Year 13 cohorts have a consistent track record of outperforming international averages in the IBCP programme, and we are becoming oversubscribed in many Key Stage 3 year groups. 

We are proud to be a local school of choice for the community we serve. Our school equips students with the knowledge, skills and experiences they need so they can lead fulfilling and successful adult lives. If you feel that you want to be a part of our exciting and unique learning community, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Ben Russell (Principal) 

Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

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Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.