Catering Assistant

Staynor Hall Primary Academy, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 8GE

Deadline is tomorrow

Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 January 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: £23,656.00 - £24,027.00 Annually (FTE)

Catering Assistant job summary

Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy

Catering Assistant

10 hours per week, to be worked during the school term time

Fixed term until July 2025

£23,656 - £24,027 pro rata

Actual salary £5,532 - £5,619

Excellent benefits, including savings at a variety of high street shops and on holidays, generous pension schemes, free onsite car parking, plus family friendly and sick pay schemes

About the Trust

Ebor Academy Trust is a family of schools located across North and East Yorkshire, York and the Humber region. We think of ourselves as being one school across many sites, working collaboratively to deliver high quality, rich and engaging education in our diverse communities. Our aims are to enable all our learners to flourish and to open doors for their very best futures.

We genuinely seek to live by our values of Excellence, Belonging, Opportunity and Respect; these underpin how we work and how we relate to each other. We have high ambitions for our learners and staff and aim to deliver this through a culture of continuous development, support, kindness and understanding. We are a friendly trust that puts people first.

About the role

Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy is looking to recruit a Catering Assistant (Heat and Serve) to work as part of the catering team in their busy kitchen. This position is to work for 10 hours per week working two hours per day Monday - Friday. This is a fixed term position in the first instance until July 2025.

You will play a key role in preparing healthy, nutritional and delicious meals for the children, staff and visitors to the school. Ensuring that the lunch hall is set up and ready for the children to have their lunch break and will help to clean the hall after the lunch time has finished.

You will help with serving the meals and ensuring that the kitchen meets the highest standards of cleanliness, helping to wash the pots and cutlery.

The job requirements

You will be a team player who is passionate providing children with a healthy and nutritional meals during their time at school. You will have a good understanding of a healthy and balance diet and the ability to heat and serve tasty food while adhering to health and safety standards.

You will have good communication skills and a friendly and approachable manner. You will be a positive role model to the children.

Experience of working within a similar role would be an advantage however this is not essential as full training and support will be provided. You will however be committed to and have a good understanding of safeguarding children.

Working with us

We offer generous terms and conditions of employment. All our staff have access to a comprehensive Wellbeing Programme to help you and your family stay healthy. This includes access to free private GP and nurse appointments, exercise advice and classes, plus a variety of specialist clinics as well as counselling services. We also offer significant discounts on many high street shops, online retailers and travel agents, not to mention free car parking at all our schools, an enviable pension scheme, sick pay and family friendly policies.

All new starters with the Trust receive a thorough induction programme, followed by a programme of training which is essential to the role. But it doesn’t stop there, all staff receive development on an ongoing basis and we encourage the learning of new skills should you wish to develop your career with the Trust further.

The Trust is striving to be an inclusive and diverse organisation, where everyone feels able to be themselves and experiences a strong sense of belonging. The Trust wholeheartedly supports the principle of equality and diversity in employment and opposes all forms of unfair or unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sex. We encourage and support the recruitment, retention and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds and seek to develop a community of staff that accurately represents society as a whole. All applications for employment with the Trust will be considered against the criteria outlined in the person specification for the position advertised.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We follow safer recruitment practices and appointments are subject to, amongst other things, an enhanced DBS check. This also means that all applicants need to complete the online form in full as we are not able to accept CVs. Please see the Trust’s Recruitment Policy for further information.

Closing date: Friday 31st January 2025 at 12.00noon

Interview date: To be confirmed

For enquiries please contact, Clare Danks, School Business Partner, c.danks@ebor.academy

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.