Catering Assistant
Minehead Middle School, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5RH16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
23 October 2026
Closing date
8 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 October 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
- Actual salary £16,137 - £16,390
Catering Assistant job summary
2 Roles Available
Role: General Catering Assistant
Location: Minehead Middle School (with cover at other Minehead schools within the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership)
Start Date: ASAP
Hours: 27.5 per week, Monday to Friday, exact hours, term time plus 2 inset days.
Salary: Grade 1 and scale point range 3 - 4, £13.28 - £13.48 per hour, (Full time equivalent £25,614 - £26,016 per annum) Actual salary £16,137 - £16,390
Do you love good food, working with people, and supporting local schools? We’re looking for two energetic, General Catering Assistants to join our friendly catering team!
Based at Minehead Middle School with the chance to support other local partner schools. Working alongside our experienced catering teams, you'll help deliver nutritious, high-quality meals in a safe and welcoming environment for pupils and staff.
Your duties will include:
- Assisting with the preparation of meals, sandwiches, salads and other food items.
- Supporting the cooking of simple food items including vegetables and basic meal preparation.
- Serving food and providing excellent customer service to pupils and staff.
- Setting up and clearing dining areas.
- Operating kitchen equipment, dishwashers and cashless catering tills (training provided where required).
- Washing crockery, utensils and kitchen equipment.
- Maintaining high standards of cleanliness and food hygiene.
- Recording food and appliance temperatures and supporting food safety procedures.
- Loading and, where required, delivering prepared meals to local schools using a school catering vehicle.
- Supporting catering for school events, meetings and functions.
- Working flexibly across different school kitchens to provide essential catering cover.
What we're looking for
We're looking for someone who is:
- Friendly, approachable and enjoys working with children.
- Reliable, adaptable and happy to work across different school locations.
- A strong team player with a positive attitude.
- Able to follow instructions and maintain excellent hygiene standards.
- Comfortable working in a busy kitchen environment.
Why Join Us?
There are many advantages to working for us. Included in your actual annual salary is generous annual leave entitlement, access to a local government pension scheme, sick pay scheme, cycle-to-work scheme, free eye tests for VDU users and employee assistance helpline. Support staff in schools can also benefit from a range of national discount schemes available to education professionals such as the Blue Light Card offering savings on shopping, travel, and leisure.
We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Minehead Middle School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 570 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
The West Somerset Academies Trust is a group of like-minded schools that share common values. Our family of academies works together to promote high academic standards, the development of good character and which puts children at the centre of its thinking.
Minehead Middle School is situated on the edge of Exmoor National Park and close to the Quantock Hills, the first ever area of outstanding natural beauty, designated in 1956. The school is one of 6 schools (2 Middle Schools and 4 First Schools) and 3 nurseries within the West Somerset Academies Trust. The school retains its own identity and benefits from being able to take full advantage of the opportunities available from belonging to the Trust, such as well resourced schools and nurseries and high quality CPD opportunities.
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