Nursery Lunchtime Support Assistant - Meadowbank Primary School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
15 October 2026, 3.00pm 
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Nursery Lunchtime Support Assistant - Meadowbank Primary School
Contract type: Permanent, Mon – Fri, 10 hours per week, term time only
Location: Meadowbank Primary School, Cheadle
Required from: 3rd November 2026
Salary: Scale 1 Point 3 (£13.27 per hour)
Closing date: Thursday 15th October 2026, 3pm
Interview date: Monday 19th October 2026
The Role:
We are looking for a nurturing Lunchtime Support Assistant, based in our Nursery class, to create a calm, playful lunchtime experience for our 3 and 4-year-olds. Working with school leaders, you will help our youngest learners grow socially, emotionally and independently.
Candidates will be enthusiastic, patient, energetic, and passionate about Early Years. They will need to have a calming approach that helps children feel safe and will want to make lunchtimes a wonderful part of the children’s day.
The Key Responsibilities are:
- Purposeful Play: Facilitate fun, child-led play indoors and outdoors, whatever the weather.
- Small-Group Learning: Guide teaching and learning with small groups of children, while naturally facilitating learning within the indoor environment.
- Social Dining: Encourage independence (using cutlery, trying new foods) and talk with children to build language skills.
- Emotional Support: Help children navigate their emotions with patience, kindness, and understanding.
Daily Wellbeing & Safety: Keep children safe and happy by managing allergies, administering basic first aid, and handing over smoothly to the nursery team.
About Education Learning Trust:
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This includes a highly competitive salary, a respected and generous pension scheme, and outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development. We are also committed to supporting your health and wellbeing, offering access to our award-winning employee assistance programme and a wide range of employee benefits and discounts.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
- exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
- school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
- opportunities for professional development and leadership
- a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
- innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Please send completed applications to admin@meadowbankprimary.com
Interview Date: 19 October 2026