Catering Assistant – temporary maternity cover

Dorridge Primary School, Solihull, West Midlands, B93 8EU

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 May 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: £8,769.00 - £8,906.00 Annually (Actual) Band A: £23,656 - £24,027 (full time equivalent). £8769 - £8906 – actual salary range for 16 hours per week

Catering Assistant – temporary maternity cover job summary

This is a temporary maternity cover vacancy.

Hours of work: 11:00am to 2:45pm, Monday to Friday including a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. 16 hours per week.

AMAT Catering Services is part of Arden Multi Academy trust, a group of schools providing excellent education to children and young people within Solihull and the local area. Our Catering team are proud of delivering delicious, healthy school meals using locally sourced, high-quality ingredients to pupils within all our schools. We are delighted to be able offer the following role within the Trust.

The postholders will assist with the preparation and serving of meals, refreshments and other catering services. If you, therefore, have an interest in food and are enthusiastic, self-motivated, able to assist in the preparation and serving of meals to students and staff and would like to join a team with the same commitment we would love to hear from you.

We currently have a temporary maternity cover vacancy at Dorridge Primary School. Although this is a part time job, applicants must be able to work Monday to Friday.

The key responsibilities for this post are as follows:

• Preparation and some cooking of food
• Preparing the dining area for service, placing out and putting away of dining room tables, chairs and utensils as required
• Preparing the counter for service
• Transporting food between service points, serving meals
• Operating the till systems
• Excellent customer service skills

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification provided.

In return we can offer you:

• An excellent Local Government Pension scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free Uniform
• A school environment where enthusiastic students enjoy learning and engage positively in all aspects of school life
• Access to high quality continuing professional development and the opportunity for personal growth and development

Further information about Arden Multi Academy Trust is available here:

https://www.ardenmat.org.uk/

Further information about Dorridge Primary School is available here:

https://www.dorridge.solihull.sch.uk/

Arden Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure and, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, will be subject to a social media online search.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Dorridge Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 695 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dorridge Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dorridge-primary-school-solihull

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