7 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    15 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    8 December 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 20 hours per week Monday to Friday, term time only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Real living Wage

Hourly rate

£13.45

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will:

  • Have previous experience of working in a catering environment undertaking food preparation and basic cooking.
  • Be highly organised and able to work on own initiative with the minimum of supervision.

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidate will join the trust at an exciting time:

  • We are a Living Wage Employer.
  • The school is part of Albany Learning Trust, a tight knit academy trust and has links across the region with other schools, trusts and education organisations.
  • Our trust has been awarded the staff development national excellence award.
  • Behaviour of students in our schools is excellent.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Catering Assistant - application pack updated December 2025.pdf - 682 KB (opens in new tab)

About Albany Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
722 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
Albany Academy website
Email address
vacancies@albanyacademy.co.uk
Phone number
01257 244020
See more jobs
teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/albany-academy

Albany Academy is a highly successful and popular 11-16 school situated in Chorley, Lancashire. With 727 pupils currently on roll, the school provides an excellent education within a nurturing and caring environment where every student is well known by every member of staff and are proud to be a member of Albany Learning Trust, the first school trust of its type in Lancashire.

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