Catering Assistant

Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8AQ

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  13 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 July 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: £14,581.00 Annually (Actual)

Catering Assistant job summary

We are seeking a Catering Assistant to support with the provision of nutritional, varied and exciting food for our students and staff which is served from our four food outlets in school: North Eat Diner, Northfleet Café, Pit Stop and the Sixth Avenue Café (based in our dedicated Sixth Form Building).

This is a permanent post for 28.25 hours per week and term time only (39 weeks per year). The working pattern is 8:00 - 14:15 Monday to Thursday and 8:00 - 13:45 on Friday.

The postholder will join our experienced and committed in house Catering Team and under the direction of the Catering Manager will assist with preparation, serving and selling of food and refreshments. Responsibilities also include maintaining high standards of cleanliness, hygiene and health & safety within the dining and kitchen areas.

Please visit our website www.nsfg.org.uk and see the attached documents for further information on the school and the role.

Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.

We reserve the right to withdraw this advert before the published closing date should a suitable candidate be appointed before.

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

Northfleet School for Girls and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. For any candidate who is shortlisted, an online search will be conducted in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 statutory guidance.

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 Northfleet School for Girls

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1302 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northfleet School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northfleet-school-for-girls

Northfleet School for Girls is a vibrant and caring school with a great community feel. Over recent years we have been growing rapidly (62% increase in student roll since 2017) and we believe this is down to the following key areas:

- A real passion to develop the whole student as well as achieve excellent academic progress
- A dedicated staffing team who really care and a clear commitment by leaders to staff wellbeing
- Great student behaviour and engagement, allowing staff and students to flourish

Our vision is that all students should "dream big and achieve" through the following:

- High expectations in all aspects of school life including uniform, attendance, behaviour and academic achievement
- Working together through truly valuing positive working relationships with staff, students and parents
- Enjoying the journey, we strongly believe that all involved in our community can enjoy being at our school and create lasting positive memories.

We are at a very exciting stage of realising our aspirational vision through the following:

- Very strong academic achievement, significantly above Kent similar school averages
- Continued oversubscription across school
- A key emphasis that we are not an exam factory, we seek to develop the whole person with equal importance to academic performance
- Valuing and developing our committed staff team through wellbeing support and further career opportunities
- A strong financial position allowing us to invest for the future

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