Catering Assistant

Highfields Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE23 3UX

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 June 2026

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: £5,944.00 Annually (Actual) NJC3, 10 hours per week, 2 hours per day, term time only

Catering Assistant job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of the Spencer Academies Trust catering team. The post-holder will support the Catering Manager in all aspects of our catering provision at Highfields Spencer Academy. This will include general kitchen duties, food preparation and service.

Please see the attached job description for more information about the roles and responsibilities.

We are seeking an individual who would enjoy the challenge of working in a primary academy which will often include many varied dietary requirements. You will need to demonstrate all round catering experience and have good communication skills.

Find out more through our websites and social media feeds where we are proud to showcase the variety of our ideas and the work that we engage in, the pace and scope of our days, and allow you to become familiar with members of our fabulous team.

If you would like to find out more about working with us, then please contact Nicola Taylor at info@spencertrust.org.uk

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and appoint before the closing date. If you are keen to apply, please complete your application as soon as possible.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

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 Highfields Spencer Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 233 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Highfields Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highfields-spencer-academy

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be the Principal of a thriving and expanding primary school located between Findern and Mickleover, and 4 miles south west of Derby.
This position offers the chance to work with:

• A diverse and inclusive school at the centre of a newly built community
• A body of children who are happy and who enjoy coming to school
• A visionary, successful and outward facing MAT
We opened in September 2020, in a brand new building, initially housing nursery and reception age children only. We now have classes from nursery to year 3 and will be accommodating all year groups by summer 2026. We pride ourselves on our ‘Rainbow’ values of ‘respect, achieve, inspire, nurture, belong, open and well-being’.

Our recent Ofsted report celebrated our strengths in a number of areas which were graded as good. Our principal is relocating for September 2023 so we are looking for an experienced and inspiring individual who can oversee the next phase of our journey towards outstanding when we are next inspected.

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