Lunch time Learning Assistant

Salary: Grade 2 SCP 3 £2,804.00 - Actual Per Annum

Permanent, 5 hours per week - Term Time Only, Monday - Friday 11:45am until 12:45pm

Start: September 2026

Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust is a vibrant family of ten schools across Hull – three secondary and seven primary – united by a shared purpose: to inspire pupils to thrive in life. Each Thrive school is a dynamic community of staff, pupils, and families working together to unlock every child’s potential.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will share our collaborative approach and ethos and must believe in a self‑improving and sustainable system of school improvement. Oldfleet Primary School are looking to appoint a lunchtime Learning Assistant to join our existing team. You will provide highly effective support to our children at Oldfleet Primary School across the lunchtime period in the dining hall.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people.
• Live our Trust values, demonstrating commitment to the Thrive Charter.
• Establish positive relationships with children, ensuring they feel safe, valued, and happy.
• Have high expectations of social behaviour and learning over the lunchtime period.
• Encourage appropriate social interaction and independence when dining together with their peers.
• Teach appropriate skills, i.e., the use of cutlery and manners.
• Be a positive role model working with enthusiasm, care, and consideration.
• Promote an inclusive lunchtime environment, recognising and supporting individual needs.
• Work as part of a team with the catering assistants, organising the dining room (furniture/equipment) and clearing of tables for all the operational needs of the school’s catering provision.
• Undertake first aid duties.
• Be flexible to ensure the operational needs of the school are met, undertaking duties of a similar nature and responsibility as and when required.

What We Offer

• An inclusive and forward‑thinking school within a supportive Multi‑Academy Trust.
• Opportunities for professional growth through leadership development programmes.
• Access to our staff benefits platform, including retail discounts, gym membership offers, and savings schemes such as cycle‑to‑work.
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Closing date: Friday 4th September 2026, 16:00pm

Interviews: Friday 11th September 2026

As part of Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust commitment to safer recruitment processes and in accordance with statutory guidance: Keeping Children Safe in Education an online search will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

Please note, we do not accept CVs, applications must be submitted using our application form.

Our commitment to Safeguarding: Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Each school has a robust Safeguarding Policy and all staff receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout their employment. A candidate’s suitability to work with children will be explored at all stages of the recruitment process. The successful applicant will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive pre‑employment checking process including receipt of a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), a Children’s Barred List check, a Section 128 Management Check if relevant, Prohibition check and overseas checks as applicable, identity check, medical clearance, proof of qualifications, satisfactory references and a check regarding their eligibility to work in the UK.

This role involves contact with children and provides regular access to children, therefore it is ‘regulated activity’. As such, this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act – 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: Thrive Co-operative Learning Trust recognises and celebrates the diversity of its schools and their communities. There is a shared commitment across the Trust to develop further a culture of respect, where discrimination is not tolerated, and individuals are treated equitably and fairly and feel a sense of belonging.

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