Midday Assistant; FTC

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Midday Meals Assistant (MDA)

We are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Midday Meals Assistant (MDA) to join our supportive and collaborative team. You will initiate positive play creating a purposeful and inclusive learning environment, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children is maintained at all times.

Using a calm and caring approach you will be able to demonstrate fantastic meal time manners, encourage healthy eating and be ready to help with balancing those peas or that overflowing cup of water! The Midday Meals Assistant (MDA) plays a crucial role in ensuring our children enjoy safe, sociable and happy lunchtimes and are ready to learn when they return to their classrooms.

It’s not necessarily your experience as a Midday Meals Assistant (MDA) that we’re most interested in, it’s your passion and commitment to our mission, ensuring every child, whatever their background, receives a high quality education.

Closing date: midday on 13/03/2026

FTC until 31/12/2026

• A great communicator who develops positive relationships with young children
• Enthusiastic and committed to working as part of a team
• Passionate, resourceful and creative about children learning through play and physical activities
• Able to promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
• Committed to achieving high standards of service and hygiene

• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and vast promotion opportunities across the trust
• A comprehensive and supportive induction programme
• Friendly and supportive environment, where everyone is committed to a work life balance
• The opportunity to be part of exciting development and innovative change
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye tests
• Employee Assistance Programme - free & confidential advice on a variety of subjects ranging from physical and mental health to financial help

We aim to provide a stimulating and vibrant learning community. Constantly improving and providing children with experiences that develop perseverance, ambition and optimism. We enable our students to have a good grasp of skills and inspire them to be significant contributors to world society in their future.

We want our staff to love their job and make their choice of profession to be a choice they are proud of and a workplace they enjoy and take pride in working in.

We have and want our children to have high expectations. We will learn from mistakes and turn them into success by creating independent children who have enquiring minds. Through developing confidence, pride and respect we will all support and encourage, listen and innovate through clear direction on our journey to brilliance.

Our whole school vision is encapsulated in the phrase Forever Proud. To find out more visit our website here https://.

To discover what makes The Mill Primary Academy so incredible, please arrange a visit by contacting the school office on or email (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) is one of the largest Multi‑Academy Trusts in the South & East of England with 45 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT Family. Our ultimate aim is to ensure we drive educational standards through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. Within the #oneTKATfamily, the shared and common purpose is to work together as a community of schools to ensure that every child, whatever their background, receives a high quality education.

We place a high value on collaboration; ‘achieving more together’, giving staff the opportunity to come together and learn, ensuring a shared sense of purpose across our network and by sharing expertise across the TKAT family.

We have a flexible approach to interviews and can offer a range of dates and times to suit your personal circumstances.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications.

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full safer…