Assistant Chef
Avanti Park School, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1EU10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 July 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £13.74
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Join Our Friendly Food & Beverage Team!
We’re looking for a reliable, hard-working, and enthusiastic individual to join our team. In this vital role, you’ll help keep our kitchen running smoothly and ensure everyone enjoys a positive, seamless experience.
As part of our catering team, you’ll play a key role in maintaining clean, organised kitchen spaces and preparing crockery, cutlery, and meals to support busy service times.
If you enjoy teamwork, take pride in your work, and want to contribute to a warm and welcoming dining environment, we’d love to hear from you.
What will you do?
- To prepare all types of food in line with kitchen requirements or to pack meals as needed
- Operate within a team of permanent, part time and flexible staff in the unit, ensuring that the manufacturing service is successfully delivered consistently to the required standard on a daily basis.
- Assist in all aspects of the day to day duties in the kitchen and ensure that the required catering service is successfully delivered on a daily basis. This includes working as an effective team member.
- Participate in ensuring the smooth running of all operations.
What are we looking for?
- Understanding of food hygiene and kitchen health and safety
- The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
- Ability to follow strict instructions in a systematic and consistent manner
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role..
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- O2 discounts
- NUS Card
- Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Access to multiple well-being programmes
- Cycle to work Schemes
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Park School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 13
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 524 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 13
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Park School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Park is built on three areas: Educational Excellence, Character Formation and Spiritual Insight. We are very proud of our inclusive, warm and caring approach. Strong relationships between staff and pupils are incredibly important to us and are key to ensuring that your children will flourish and reach their academic and social potential.
All staff at Avanti Park School work in partnership with parents to ensure that every child is prepared to meet their life challenges, with high standards in literacy and mathematics as well as memorable experiences in other curriculum areas such as arts, craft and whole school festival celebrations. Through our curriculum pupils will gain a reflective, compassionate understanding of themselves and the communities around them.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Park School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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