Catering Assistant

Cherry Tree Academy, Colchester, Essex, CO2 0BG

37 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 10 hours per week. (Monday to Friday, 11.30am – 1.30pm, (Term-time only + one week (non-pupil days)) required ASAP.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £5567

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for someone who has:

• High standards of personal hygiene.
• The ability to complete tasks speedily and accurately.
• The ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, pupils, staff and visitors.
• The ability to work either alone or as part of a team.

Your duties will include:

• Supporting the Catering Manager with the preparation and simple cooking of food & beverages.
• Serving pupils at the counter/hatch or from a trolley or kiosk as required.

• To undertake all aspects of cleaning equipment (light and heavy), walls (up to 6ft.) floors, fixtures and fittings, cooking utensils, cutlery, glassware etc. as directed.

The Catering Assistant role is to support the Catering Manager to provide healthy and balanced meals for our pupils. We need someone who is flexible, patient,a team player and can work at a fast pace.

What the school offers its staff

Staff wellbeing

Happy and Friendly Team

Professional Development

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.

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About Cherry Tree Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 171 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cherry Tree Academy website
• Email address: HR@inspiresmat.co.uk
• Phone number: 01376 518190
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cherry-tree-academy

At Cherry Tree Academy our mission is that our pupils will develop:

• A set of spiritual and moral values — honesty, integrity and good judgement.
• A toolkit of basic skills — linguistic, mathematical, scientific, artistic, physical and social.
• An enquiring mind and a desire for knowledge.
• Strong self-esteem and high personal expectation.
• Tolerance and respect for others

Arranging a visit to Cherry Tree Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@inspiresmat.co.uk.

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