Job Vacancies
Welfare Assistant - June 2025
We are looking to hire 2 lunchtime Welfare Assistants to work with children during the lunch hour in school and we wanted to give our parents/carers the opportunity to apply.
The successful candidates will:
- Control the dinner queue;
- Supervise pupils eating their dinners;
- Prevent them from taking food outside the dining area;
- Control the behaviour of pupils while they eat their meals;
- Keep pupils out of classrooms when they should be outside;
- Check that groups of pupils do not hang around places that they should not (such as toilets);
- Control the behaviour of pupils in the playground;
- Promote good behaviour, especially when they break the rules;
- Deal with accidents in the playground or dining area;
- Promote social distancing and COVID compliance where necessary
- Keep young pupils occupied when they have to stay indoors.
The job is a permanent part-time position for 1 hour per day (5 hours per week) for 5 days a week term time only . The working hours may vary, but the hour will be somewhere between 11.45am and 1.30pm with most shifts being 12pm – 1pm.
You will be paid for 38 weeks per year with allowance for holiday pay. All leave must be taken outside of your core working hours and holiday is only permitted outside of term time.
This job is on Foundation Living Wage currently paid at £12.60 per hour.
The closing date for applications is Monday 23rd June 2025 at 9am with interviews taking pace on Monday 7th July 2025.
Please either complete the attached application form and email it to bursar@padihamgreen.lancs.sch.uk or come to the school office to get a paper copy.
Equal Opportunities statementAn Equal Opportunities Employer welcoming applications from all sections of the communityRehabilitationRehabilitation The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Information provided by you or the Disclosure and Barring Service will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with the DBS's Code of Practice. You may view the Code of Practice on the DBS website at www.gov.uk/dbs or alternatively a copy is available on request. Lancashire County Council has a Handling of DBS Certificate Information Policy and a Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders this is available from the recruiting manager to applicants who are asked to complete a DBS application.
Rehabilitation The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Information provided by you or the Disclosure and Barring Service will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with the DBS's Code of Practice. You may view the Code of Practice on the DBS website at www.gov.uk/dbs or alternatively a copy is available on request. Lancashire County Council has a Handling of DBS Certificate Information Policy and a Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders this is available from the recruiting manager to applicants who are asked to complete a DBS application.
Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
We do not accept CVs as application for a position in school, please ensure the attached application form is completed in full and returned to school before the closing date.