Catering Assistant
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HZ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Part-time, Monday to Friday 12-2.30pm Term-time
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £8542
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience of working in a busy kitchen environment.
Experience of working in a team.
Commitment to undertake training / CPD.
To ensure the school’s safeguarding policies and procedures are followed at all times.
The ability to identify tasks to be completed.
The ability to communicate politely and effectively with young people and colleagues.
Commitment to follow all health and safety procedures.
Commitment to working with the team to achieve shared goals.
Trustworthy.
Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
Ability to recognise the importance of ensuring a safe and secure environment.
Ability to follow policy and procedures.
Flexibility to accommodate the needs of the school and to work late on occasions to support school events.
What the school offers its staff
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a vibrant, thriving and leading school in the local area. (1336 on roll with a Sixth Form of 185) and our long history and excellent community links provide our students with exceptional opportunities.
We are extremely proud of our 2026 Ofsted inspection, which highlights Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School as an inclusive and respectful community where pupils feel safe, valued and supported to succeed. Inspectors described the school as “an incredibly welcoming place where all pupils feel valued” and praised the “calm and respectful environment,” noting that pupils are “enthusiastic participants in lessons and school life,” benefiting from high expectations rooted in our values of respect, believe and achieve. The report also recognises the quality of teaching, stating that “teachers have a clear understanding of the skills and knowledge that pupils need” and that “staff use their subject knowledge well to adapt tasks so that all pupils… can participate in lessons.”
Inspectors highlighted our strong commitment to inclusion, noting that leaders have created “a highly inclusive culture where pupils are well known, cared for and supported,” alongside a well‑planned curriculum and a broad personal development programme that prepares pupils for life beyond school. Leadership was commended for maintaining strong standards in behaviour and attendance and for driving improvement, while our Catholic ethos continues to underpin the strong sense of community identified in both this inspection and our 2023 CSI report, which described the school’s valued “sense of family.”
We wish to appoint a Catering Assistant who is a hard-working and committed person with drive, enthusiasm and inspiration who will make a valuable contribution to the school, the pupils and their achievements.
How to apply:
This role is part-time and permanent. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests, and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, then please see the job description, person specification, application form, child protection policy, code of conduct – Safer working practice guidance, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 form, consent to obtain reference form and model reasonable adjustments statement below.
Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by midday, Friday, 9 October 2026, with the interview to take place in the week commencing Monday, 19 October 2026.
Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in the education sector.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.
The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check, together with an additional check as part of the shortlisting process, will be to carry out an online search (including social media).
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1338 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- admin@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 235 1430
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a thriving and vibrant Specialist Sports College and a leading school in the local area.
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