Catering Assistant
John Port Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE65 6LU13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
5th January 2026
Closing date
10 December 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 November 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
- £9,206.00 - £9,206.00 Annually (Actual) NJC2, Part Time, Term Time Only (39 weeks per year)
Catering Assistant job summary
Principal’s Welcome
At John Port Spencer Academy, we believe in unlocking the potential of every student and supporting them to achieve the very best. Every child has a champion - staff dedicated to nurturing their talents, ambitions, and wellbeing. Our university-style campus offers a vibrant, inspiring environment where curiosity thrives, and learning knows no bounds. Our values of joy, progress, success, and acting with care, kindness, respect, and integrity guide everything we do. Joining our team means becoming part of a collaborative, innovative community, passionate about making a real difference every day and supporting each other to grow professionally and personally.
About John Port Spencer Academy
John Port Spencer Academy is a thriving, forward-thinking school at the heart of our community, serving over 2,000 students from Year 7 through Sixth Form. Our university-style campus, with dedicated subject teaching spaces, specialist science labs, arts facilities, and extensive sports facilities, creates a wonderful environment for both students and staff. We offer a broad, ambitious curriculum designed to challenge students and help them excel academically, personally, and socially. Every student has a champion here - staff who guide, support, and celebrate their achievements. We have a strong community spirit and high expectations. For staff, John Port is a place to grow, collaborate, and contribute to something truly special, where everyone is encouraged and excellence is celebrated.
The Role
We wish to appoint an enthusiastic and hardworking Catering Assistant to join our dedicated Catering Team. We are a large Academy with three on site Catering outlets servicing our students and staff. The successful applicant will need to be flexible, a great team player and be willing to work in different areas within the Academy site. Some experience of food handling or previous work in a catering environment is desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
We would like someone to join the team in January 2026 working 5 days a week, 11.15am to 2.30pm. It is a great job to fit around children and school times!
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
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
Commitment to safeguarding
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About John Port Spencer Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2023 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- John Port Spencer Academy website
John Port Spencer Academy is a large, vibrant and energetic community school demonstrating a common purpose and ambition - to ensure the very best learning experience for each and every one of our students. We are a Good School (Ofsted 2022) and we recognise that every student has their own individual strengths, gifts and talents; our aim is to ensure that these are all nurtured and developed to their full potential. John Port Spencer Academy is part of the Spencer Academies family of schools.
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