Supervisory Assistant

Job Reference: )Primary Location :
Tyrone-Strabane-St Michael's Primary School, Dunnamanagh Contract Type :
Permanent Duration of Contract/Contract End Date : N/AStatus :
Part-Time Hours per Week : 5

Working Pattern : 12-1pmGrade/Scale :
Supervisory Assistant | NJC pt 5 - 8 | £13.6288 - £14.2897 per hour Additional Allowance(s) : A retainer fee is paid during school holidays

Anticipated Interview Date(s) : 14/9/26

Additional Information: N/AJOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE:

Supervisory Assistant

REPORTS TO:

Principal/Senior Supervisory Assistant JOB PURPOSE Responsible individually or as a member of a team for the supervision of children and the maintenance of discipline for the children remaining on the school premises throughout the mid-day break (i.e. the interval between the close of morning school and the re-opening of school in the afternoon).MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Assist in the supervision of children in all areas of the school and ground in order that health and safety regulations are observed and school discipline is enforced.

Liaise with the principal/senior supervisory assistant on all matters relating to mid-day supervision.

Deal with minor problems, accidents/sickness and report any serious incident to the principal/senior supervisory assistant immediately.

Supervise children consuming meals and packed lunches, including:(a) the movement of children between classrooms and dining areas where necessary, including dining areas outside the school premises.(b) the supervision of queues, seating arrangements, and the circulation of pupils to and from service points.(c) the supervision of the conduct of diners.

To be responsible for:(a) collection of dinner tickets where appropriate.(b) the distribution of meals within the dining area as appropriate.(c) ancillary associated duties (eg, cleaning up spillages, ensuring tables are cleared and cleaned, removal of litter from all areas used for the consumption of food including packed lunches, etc).(d) assisting children where necessary.

Duties as delegated in connection with cash cafeterias

Carry out all duties to comply with:(a) the Health and Safety at Work (NI) order 1978;(b) Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments and Regulations and other legal requirements;(c) Codes of Practice.

Carry out all duties in the working conditions normally inherent in the particular job Complete all necessary paperwork.

Carry out duties for jobs up to and including those in the same grade, provided such duties are within the competence of the employee.

This job description will be subject to review in light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to  accordance with Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act (1998), the post-holder is expected to promote good relations, equality of opportunity and pay due regard for equality legislation at all times.

PERSON SPECIFICATION NOTES TO JOB APPLICANTS You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how, and to what extent you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria, where relevant.

You must demonstrate how you meet the criteria by the closing date for applications, unless the criteria state otherwise.

The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is outlined in the table below.

Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form.

Please note that the Selection Panel reserves the right to shortlist only those applicants that it believes most strongly meet the criteria for the  the event of an excessive number of applications, the Selection Panel also reserves the right to apply any desirable criteria as outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting, in which case these will be applied in the order listed.

It is important therefore that you also clearly demonstrate on…