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Catering Assistant

East Coker Community Primary School, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 9HY

This job expired on 3 June 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  3 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Monday to Friday 11.30-1.30 (10 hours) Term Time only Plus an additional 2 hours per term
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,656 FTE

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Governors are looking to appoint a friendly and enthusiastic Catering Assistant to run the brand new hot meal service which is provided externally to the school. Duties involve the overall management of the external food delivery service, ensuring food health and safety requirements are met, provide a calm friendly food service to the children having hot meals, paying particular attention to meals for children with dietary requirements. This also includes ensuring the service area is ready on time for service and cleaned with equipment washed and tided away at the end of the service.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a good knowledge of food safety and hygiene practice or a willingness to learn
• Be well motivated to ensure a high quality service for our children
• Be fully committed to our school ethos
• Have good communication skills
• Reasonable level of fitness and health to manage the deep cleaning aspects of this role
• Have the ability to work in a busy environment and as part of a friendly, supportive team.

What the school offers its staff

East Coker Primary School is a large rural school with a very supportive and friendly community. We aim to provide our children with a good balance of academic and wider experiences to grow into well-rounded, compassionate and confident young people with a strong sense of community. We strongly value creativity, collaboration and independence and our pupils are encouraged to take an active part in our school.

We can offer:

• A caring, warm and friendly school in a beautiful setting.
• Happy, well behaved children.
• The opportunity to help set up a new exciting lunchtime service.
• A dedicated lunchtime team committed to providing the best for our children.
• A Well Being programme for staff.

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 East Coker Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 198 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: East Coker Community Primary School website
• Email address: office@eastcokerprimary.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/east-coker-community-primary-school

Arranging a visit to East Coker Community Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@eastcokerprimary.org.

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