Midday Play Leader - Opal Lunchtime Coordinator

Midday Play Leader (Highfields Spencer Academy)

Salary: NJC2 - NJC6

Education Phase: Primary

Working Pattern: Part-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Monday, 31st March 2025

Interview Date: TBC

About the Role:

Working as a member of the Play Team, you will ensure that all our children have meaningful lunchtime play every day. You will work as a member of the Midday Play leader team to create a safe and stimulating outdoor environment providing social, active and creative play experiences for all. The team is also responsible for ensuring that all our children have a pleasant eating experience at lunchtime, whilst maximizing the time they can spend outside playing. You will support all our children as they visit the dining hall and are responsible for clearing and cleaning the hall to a state ready for use (e.g., for PE, school assemblies) in the afternoon.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide nurture support to create a safe and welcoming environment.
• Collaborate with teachers and families to help students reach their full potential.
• Promote a culture of respect and empathy within the classroom and beyond.

Who You Are:

• A kind, patient individual who values building relationships with children.
• Committed to fostering an inclusive atmosphere where every child feels inspired to succeed.
• Eager to grow professionally with ongoing development opportunities.

Highfields Spencer Academy is a vibrant learning community that recognizes every child's uniqueness. We teach our pupils to embrace learning with excitement and enthusiasm so they are ready to take on challenges without fear of failure. Our school culture is about celebrating diversity, dreaming big, and working together to achieve.

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of young people?

Do you want to remove barriers for young children?

Do you want to support children in realizing that they have potential and then teach them the skills in order for them to reach it?

You could be the ideal candidate for this role. Please see the attached job description for full details.

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust, and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18,000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2,800 teachers, leaders, and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high-performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies, and 1 primary-aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity, and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well-rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a 'family' and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust's high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

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Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients, and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

Job Description

Please see Job Description and Person Specifications attached.