Catering Assistant

Extend Learning Academies Network, Weston-Super-Mare, BS24 8BH

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 October 2025

• Closing date

  4 September 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  19 August 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: £8,655.25

Catering Assistant job summary

Extend Learning Academies Network (ELAN) has a fantastic opportunity for an energetic and motivated catering assistant to join the trust’s catering services.

39 weeks per year: Monday to Friday, 15 hours per week including 15 INSET hours per academic year.

Actual salary E1C £8,655.25 per annum plus excellent benefits package.

A school catering assistant is a vital part of the team that keeps pupils well-fed and lunchtime running smoothly. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and ready to play an important role of feeding the children of Walliscote Primary School and our other trust schools to cover absence as needed.

It’s a hands-on role that’s perfect for someone who enjoys working with children, values cleanliness, and thrives in a busy kitchen setting.

You will be:

• preparing and serving meals: Assisting with food prep, cooking and ensur-ing meals are served efficiently.

• maintaining hygiene: Cleaning kitchen areas, equipment, and dining spaces to meet health and safety standards.

Supporting pupils: Encouraging children to choose healthy options and helping them during meal service. As a vital member of the central team estates and facilities services, you may be required to work from any of ELAN’s locations. Therefore, access to transport is essential as you will be required to cover staff absence in other schools catering teams. All ELAN schools are within a short-drive distance from each other.

If you love food, are passionate about helping children to make good food choices, and are a reliable, enthusiastic team-player, we’d love to hear from you. Do not miss this superb opportunity to join a supportive and successful team.

Please go to:

Interviews: Monday 8 September 2025

ELAN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. We will be undertaking an appropriate online search for shortlisted candidates. It is an offence to apply for a role that requires regulated activity if you are barred from doing so. Any concerns will be reported immediately to the appropriate body. Our child protection and safeguarding policy is available on our website.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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.

About Extend Learning Academies Network

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/extend-learning-academies-network

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