Lunchtime Supervisor

Job start date: 1 March 2025  

Hours per week: 7.5 term time only  

Brays School
Brays Road
Birmingham
B26 1NS
Telephone number: 0121 809 0885

Contact email: recruitment@fet.ac

Contract type: Permanent

We are a popular special school located in Sheldon, Birmingham. We are looking to appoint lunchtime supervisors who are kind, playful, flexible and a commitment to providing our pupils with equality of opportunity.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to join our talented and dedicated team of Brays staff and multi-disciplinary colleagues.

All the amazing children who attend our school have an Education and Health Care Plan. Our school currently educates children with complex and multiple needs across 9 classes. Our children may have Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD), Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) and/or a diagnosis of an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC). Some children have additional needs including visual impairment and hearing impairment. We aim to underpin our curriculum delivery which includes lunchtimes through continually developing our communication work so that the children can access their learning in a way personalised to their needs.

Brays School is part of Forward Education Trust (FET), an established and developing MAT of 7 special schools in Birmingham and Sandwell, including a new school in Solihull. The Trust is committed to ensuring the schools develop individual personalities, recognising their own unique characteristics and celebrating the many good things that happen day-to-day.

As an employee of Forward Education Trust you will have access to a range of benefits to help our staff on a personal and professional level, which includes:

• support staff local government pension – employer contribution
• FET HUB – information all in one place, access to a range of benefits
• paid for health cash plan – employee and dependent children benefit – option to add partner
• employee questionnaire – consultation with staff on a range of issues and ideas
• salary sacrifice scheme – cycle to work scheme
• access to the NHS approved Thrive App – to support mental health and well-being
• comprehensive induction and probation support and an ongoing performance management and appraisal system
• easy purchase scheme (salary deduction) – Smart Tech in association with Currys
• enhanced employee assistance programme – free, totally confidential advice, with face-to-face consultations
• personal and professional learning and development – including FLICK online learning and other resources
• access to discounts and offers from Reward Gateway and My Perks
• occupational health service – accessible to support the needs of individual staff
• staff recognition – e-cards to celebrate success among colleagues
• mental health first aiders
• policies being developed to support positive health and well-being: Family Friendly Working, Special Leave of Absence, Flexible Working, Menopause
• a commitment to develop new ideas to show we really value what you do for our children

As a member of Brays staff, we can offer you:

• a relaxing, work free space to take your breaks
• the opportunity to engage with a school dog, a 4-year-old cockapoo named Rusty
• the opportunity to purchase fresh eggs from our 6 hens
• a role recognition programme e.g. World Teacher Day, National Teaching Assistant Day, Thank A Cleaner Day

You will offer us:

• a commitment to engaging and inspiring our pupils and the ability to make a real difference to their lives adhering to the newly introduced Brays values: Belonging, Teamwork, Respect, Equality, Kindness and Safety Flexibility, commitment and excellent interpersonal skills

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to apply:

Please apply online

The Trust may review applications upon receipt and may call applicants for interview prior to the advert closing date. Therefore, you are encouraged to make an early application for this role and we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

Please note that only fully completed Forward Education Trust Application forms will be accepted; we will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitae (CV) or accept them in place of an application form.

If you do not hear from the school within 14 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.  

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.  

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.  

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.