Catering Assistant

Colne Community School, Colchester, Essex, CO7 0QL

19 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
6 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
17 September 2025

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: £15,375.00 - £15,616.00 Annually (Actual)

Catering Assistant job summary

Join a Team that Builds Aspiration, Nurtures Resilience, and Practices Kindness at The Colne.

CATERING ASSISTANT

Pay Range: Local Government Pay Scale 2

Actual Salary from: £15,375 - £15,616 (Points 3 - 4)

Start Date: ASAP

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen at the Colne Community School for a Catering Assistant to join our Catering Team.

Our school is a community in which we believe everyone, students and staff alike, should have the opportunity to be nourished and grow. Therefore, we are seeking to recruit a proactive and reliable member of staff to enrich the skills and experience already present in our Catering Team. We aim to foster an inclusive culture where everyone is able to learn from each other. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, confident and diligent.

Colne Community School is a member of the Sigma Trust. The Sigma Trust’s mission is to be ‘Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts’ and this is certainly a message that The Colne invests in too. We work closely with other schools within the Trust to improve standards and ensure that we are creating the best environment for our students to learn and our staff to develop.

Our school community is expanding which makes this a particularly unique and exciting time to join our school. We have a new teaching block consisting of 8 new classrooms and 4 specialist Design and Technology rooms fully equipped. A further large scale internal refurbishment took place over the 2022/23 academic year which has further improved our school environment for all.

Our ARK values of Aspiration, Resilience and Kindness describe the ethos that flows through our school. We expect all members of staff to feed into our values and lead by example to our students. We believe that every member of staff has the potential to impact on student experience and therefore we encourage our staff, both teaching and support, to immerse themselves in our school culture.

Applications from outstanding professionals who believe they can contribute to our school community are greatly welcomed. If you are willing to invest in us, we will invest in you which we believe makes the experience at the Colne especially exciting.

This post is 27 hours, 30 minutes per week, 38 weeks per year (term-time only)

Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive an overwhelming response.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

The preparation and simple cooking of food and beverages.
Serving customers.
To maintain a high standard of personal and general cleanliness and hygiene to comply with statutory and school regulations.

(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Person Specification).

We're looking for you if you have:

Good general standard of education
Focus on customer service
The ability to be flexible and adaptable

Why work for The Sigma Trust, Colne Community School?

We can offer you:

A Competitive Salary
Robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish
Opportunities to work with colleagues across the Trust to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships
Free tea and coffee available in all team rooms and communal staff room
Sociable and friendly staff
Staff weekly wellbeing opportunities
Staff social events

Employee benefits include:

Excellent pension scheme
A Health Cash Plan
Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential advice
Cycle to Work scheme
Eye care plan
Annual free flu vaccination
Discounted gym membership at selected local gyms
Discounted cinema tickets
Eligible for Blue Light Card

Please note that an integration period applies to all new staff joining the Trust, to support introduction into the organisation.

To Apply

Ready to take the next step? Find out more about the role and apply by Sunday, 5th October 2025 at Midnight.

Nb: Only fully completed application forms will be accepted. We reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive a large number of applications.

The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.

The Sigma Trust is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristics. This is embedded in our vision ‘To Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts’, where we believe we are strong and more successful working together, creating a workplace which celebrates diversity.

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.