Midday Meals Supervisor - Part-time

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with their development and learning? Are you keen to develop new skills? Come and join our fantastic team at Foreland Fields School!
Our school is currently undergoing an exciting phase of expansion and therefore we have a vacancy for a Midday Meals Supervisor.
Our pupils and students have a wide range of needs, including difficulties with communication, learning, physical and sensory development as well as medical and care needs. All pupils and students have either severe or profound learning difficulties and many also have a diagnosis of autism. Classes are needs led and pupils and students follow personalised learning journeys along different curriculum pathways, depending on their individual needs.
Midday Meals Supervisors are appointed to the whole school and may be required to work with any needs type or age group. Duties include supporting pupils and students with their eating and drinking, their personal care and their development through play and other planned learning activities. Mid-Day Meals Supervisors work for 2 hours per day, across the lunchtime period.
Whilst relevant qualifications and experience would be an advantage, they are not essential (please refer to the Midday Meals Person Specification). We provide all staff with a full week of induction training, which includes Moving and Handling, Communication, Pool Evacuation, Behaviour and Safeguarding Training. We are committed to providing aspirational outcomes for all our students and we provide regular specialist training for all staff, throughout their careers at Foreland Fields School. Essential training for Midday Meals Supervisors takes place during 5 INSET days over the year.

Foreland Fields School is a Day Special School for pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Needs (PSCN), many of whom also have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
We provide for 200+ pupils aged 3-19 in five departments, Nursery, Infants, Juniors (KS2) Secondary (KS3) and KS4/6th Form. In addition, we have satellite classes at Garlinge Primary School, Hartsdown Academy and East Kent College.
We encourage all of our employees to further their career development and we respect initiative and ambition. We are committed to performance management, staff training and coaching. The successful candidate will embrace the special ethos of the School, and the role will provide an opportunity to take Foreland Fields School into this next exciting phase and beyond.
Foreland Fields School is committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children therefore all successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and references. We will also complete an online search on all shortlisted candidates.