Catering Assistant - Part Time (16.25hrs per week)

John Port Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE65 6LU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  19 October 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)

Catering Assistant - Part Time (16.25hrs per week) 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 Catering outlets servicing our students and staff. The successful applicant will need to be flexible, a great team player and adaptable to work in different areas within the Academy. 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 November working 5 days a week, 11.15am to 2.30pm (16.25 hours per week). It is a great job to fit around children and school times!

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

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.

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: View Ofsted report
• School website: John Port Spencer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/john-port-spencer-academy

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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