Catering Assistant

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

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 November 2026

• Closing date

  29 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £9081.04

Catering Assistant job summary

Are you passionate about food and promoting healthy eating? Are you looking for a rewarding catering assistant opportunity and help us deliver nutritious, enjoyable school meals to pupils? 

Extend Learning Academies Network (ELAN) has an exciting opportunity for a reliable, enthusiastic and hardworking catering assistant to join our successful trust-wide catering services team.

This is an ideal role for someone looking for a school catering job, kitchen assistant role, food service assistant position, or part-time catering work in Weston-super-Mare. Whether you have previous experience in a school kitchen, café, restaurant or food preparation environment, or are looking to develop a career in catering, we'd love to hear from you.

As a catering assistant, you will help provide nutritious, high-quality meals to pupils while ensuring our kitchens maintain the highest standards of cleanliness, food safety and customer service.

Hours: 15 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent term-time only, 39 weeks per year, including 15 INSET hours per academic year

Interview date: 6 October 2026

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and serving hot and cold school meals
• Supporting the day-to-day operation of the school kitchen
• Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, health and safety, and allergen compliance
• Cleaning kitchen equipment, food preparation areas and dining spaces
• Assisting with stock control and kitchen organisation
• Encouraging healthy eating and providing excellent customer service to pupils
• Helping create a safe, welcoming and enjoyable lunchtime environment

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with an interest in school catering, kitchen assistant, food service, hospitality or catering support roles who enjoys working in a busy environment and making a positive difference to children's wellbeing.

Why Join ELAN?

At ELAN, we value our staff and provide a supportive working environment where colleagues can thrive.

Benefits include:

• Generous local government pension scheme
•  Ongoing training and development opportunities
•  Term-time working pattern supporting work-life balance
•  Friendly and supportive team environment
•  Opportunity to make a positive difference to children's wellbeing and education
•  Working across a successful and growing Multi-Academy Trust

This post involves regulated activity with children and 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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