Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Part Time
Number of Positions: 1
Start Date: 2nd November 2026
Salary: TBC
Christ the King RC Primary School, with 389 pupils on roll including Nursery, is seeking to appoint a Lunchtime Organisers to supervise and support children during the lunchtime period.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supervising children’s dining and play activities across all age groups, primarily outdoors, encouraging positive and safe play.
- Promoting and supporting positive relationships between children and adults.
- Managing minor incidents, including accidents and behaviour issues, in line with school policies.
- Encouraging healthy eating and supporting children’s wellbeing through positive communication.
- Working effectively as part of a busy team in a dynamic school environment.
- Supporting children’s physical activity at lunchtime by encouraging participation in games and play.
- Participating in relevant training, including whole-school policy updates, which may occasionally occur outside contracted hours.
Christ the King offers:
- Wonderful children who love school;
- A committed, hardworking and friendly staff team;
- An attractive, stimulating and safe environment;
- A supportive Governing Body;
- A vibrant and forward-thinking parish;
- Excellent links with the Diocese and other local Catholic schools;
- A commitment to your professional development and wellbeing.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school office on 0161 681 2779 to arrange a visit.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- To communicate effectively with the pupils in their care.
- To supervise pupils in the dining area/s and elsewhere, as required by the Head teacher.
- To help create an enhancing atmosphere, so that the meal and lunchtime recreation is a pleasant experience for pupils and staff.
- Providing first aid (including the completion of any relevant paperwork/records) for pupils who have minor accidents or are unwell, and if first aid is not necessary, comforting and reassuring them.
- To report more serious accidents / incidents to the Senior Lunchtime Organiser.
- Be aware of and comply with child protection procedures, health and safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting any concerns to the relevant member of staff.
- To accompany sick or injured pupils home or to hospital, in a taxi or other transport provided.
- Where the need arises, for instance with young children, or children with special needs, attending to their physical needs such as hand washing, feeding and toileting.
Where the postholder is disabled every effort will be made to supply all necessary aids, adaptations or equipment to allow them to carry out all the duties of the job.
If however, a certain task proves to be unachievable job redesign will be pursued.
Christ the King offers:
- Wonderful children who love school;
- Very supportive families from a well-established community;
- A committed, hardworking and friendly staff team;
- An attractive, stimulating and safe environment;
- A supportive Governing Body;
- A vibrant and forward thinking parish;
- Excellent links with the Diocese and other local Catholic schools;
- A commitment to your professional development and well-being.
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We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice)
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
