Senior Midday Supervisor

Location: Arboretum Primary School
Hours: 10 hours a week, Term time + 5 Inset days per year
Contract type: Permanent

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Senior Midday Supervisor to lead our Play Team, who have an important role in providing a safe and enjoyable lunchtime experience for all our children.

The role involves leading our large and friendly play team to ensure that all our children have happy, healthy and safe lunchtimes. You will be responsible for coordinating the team to provide supervision in and around the dining halls, ensuring that they eat healthy, balanced meals; and in the playground, organising and supervising activities to engage the children. At all times, you will help to maintain the high standards of behaviour that we expect at Arboretum.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, together with the ability to remain calm and make sound decisions under pressure.

We are a large 625 place primary (which includes 32 children in our 2 year old unit and 60 in our 3 year old nursery), with a rich ethnic mix of delightful and well-behaved children. Our modern school has been refurbished and extensively extended and sits in large attractive grounds. We pride ourselves in our caring ethos and the value we place in our dedicated and friendly staff teams. We are a popular school, and have a waiting list for most year groups.

DDAT welcomes a diverse population of both children and staff and is committed to promoting and developing equality of opportunity in all its functions.

DDAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, online checks, completion of a probationary period, pre-employment and Disclosure Barring Service checks. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020).

Please note that all candidates must have a right to work in the UK in order to be able to work at our Trust. Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for international job applicants.

For application details, please see attached, or go to Join the Team on the Main Menu of our website at: www.arboretum.derby.sch.uk where you will find job details and application forms. Alternatively, you can call into the school office to collect an application pack.

Please complete the DDAT Support Staff Application Form and the DDAT Monitoring form, including the contact details for TWO referees whom we may contact regarding your application. Please note that applications that do not include referee details will not be considered.

All applications must be made on the correct forms – we do not accept CVs or any other form of application.

Completed applications can be returned to the school, or preferably via email to jobs@arboretum.derby.sch.uk

The closing date for this vacancy is Wednesdat 11 November 2026 at 09:00am. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held week commencing 16 November 2026.

Please see here for Job Description

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Please see here for Application Form