25 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    28 August 2026 at 8am

  • Date listed

    3 August 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

£6,979.00 Annually (Actual) NJC SCP 3

Catering Assistant job summary

Childwall Sports & Science Academy is looking to appoint reliable and enthusiastic Catering Assistants to join our catering team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a busy environment and takes pride in providing a high-quality service to students and staff. The successful candidate will support the Catering Manager with food preparation, serving customers, cleaning duties and ensuring high standards of food hygiene and health and safety are maintained at all times.


What you'll be doing:

  • Assisting with the preparation and serving of food and beverages.
  • Preparing service areas for lunchtime service.
  • Supporting hospitality and catering requests.
  • Washing up, cleaning and maintaining kitchen and dining areas.
  • Following food hygiene, COSHH and Health & Safety regulations.
  • Delivering excellent customer service to students, staff and visitors.
We're looking for someone who:
  • Has excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Enjoys working as part of a team.
  • Is reliable, hardworking and professional.
  • Is willing to undertake training and development opportunities.
  • Has previous catering experience (desirable).
  • Holds a Food Safety/Hygiene Level 3 Certificate (desirable).
Why join us?

As part of Lydiate Learning Trust, you will benefit from:

  • A supportive and friendly working environment.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Employee wellbeing and assistance programmes.
  • Excellent pension scheme.
  • Family-friendly policies and staff benefits package.

Lydiate Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

Right to Work

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as the Trust does not hold a Skilled Worker sponsor licence.

Safeguarding Statement

Lydiate Learning Trust is strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expect staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS and other relevant checks with statutory bodies.

Posts at the Trust are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and any adult cautions or spent convictions that are not protected or defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) order 2020.

We comply with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) code of practice. Shortlisted candidates are required to declare any relevant convictions, adult cautions or other matters which may affect their suitability to work with children. As a result of amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions order 1975) in 2013 and 2020, some minor offences are now protected (filtered) and should not be disclosed to us, and we cannot take these offences into account.

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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Childwall Sports & Science Academy

Organisation type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
1049 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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School location

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