23 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    28 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    25 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£12.26 Hourly Salary pro-rata, based on full time equivalent of £23,656 (Grade A/B, Scale Point 02)

Catering Assistant job summary

We’re looking for a Casual/Relief Catering Assistant to join our school kitchen team. This flexible role will involve working within the school kitchen and dining room, assisting the cooks, to deliver an efficient catering service for the school, operating to the highest standards of food safety. This will include help with basic food preparation, setting out and putting away dining furniture, serving meals, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room.

Job Details

Hours of Work: Casual contract, to be discussed with the Catering Manager

Position Type: Casual

Line Manager: Catering Manager

Travel Required: No

Please see the attached job description for more information.

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

  • Health, happiness and wellbeing
  • A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
  • A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
  • High standards and expectations
  • Integrity, kindness and good manners
  • Respect for individuality and difference
  • Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

  • Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
  • Are committed to our Trust values.
  • Show initiative and are responsive to change.
  • Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
  • Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
  • Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
  • Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

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 are not accepted.

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About Northallerton School & Sixth Form College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1079 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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