Dining Room Assistant

Millbrook Combined School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4BA

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  9 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  24 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,797.00 Annually (FTE)

Dining Room Assistant job summary

Title: Dining Room Assistant

Responsible to: Global Café Manager

Job Purpose: To ens To enure the safety, welfare and supervision of pupils at lunchtimes.

Conditions: Bucks Pay Range 1a; 12.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per yea, 1 year fixed contract.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities

Supervise pupils in the dining hall as required by the Catering Manager.

Supervise and accompany pupils lining up and entering the dining room.

Encourage pupils to eat in a polite manner, keeping their voices at an appropriate level.

Encourage pupils to clear up after themselves and to ask permission to leave by raising their hands.

Prevent pupils taking any food or drinks outside the dining hall.

Deal with incidents and accidents in the dining room.

Attend to minor first aid/medical matters.

Refer more serious first aid/medical matters to the staff on medical duty.

With other members of the team, ensure that the dining room is kept orderly and tidy.

Sweep and tidy the dining room. Empty the bins daily in preparation for cleaning.

Complete daily cleaning duties as required by the Catering Manager.

Report incidents of serious behaviour or concerns about pupils’ wellbeing to the senior play worker and to the appropriate key stage leader.

Attend meetings when required with the Catering Manager and senior staff to review performance and procedures.

Attend appropriate training sessions to develop the role and skills of dining room assistant.

General

To have in mind the school’s vision and values ‘ASPIRE’ to be aware of the school’s aims, organisational values and behaviours and their impact on this post.

To participate in the school’s performance management processes; this job description will be supplemented by annual target based outcomes, which will be developed in conjunction with the post holder. It will be subject to regular review and the school reserves the right to amend or add to the duties listed.

To take due account of the school’s health and safety policy and duty of care when working in the school and with pupils; to carry out all duties and responsibilities with reasonable care for the health and safety of you and any other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work and to co-operate fully with the school in health and safety matters.

To maintain confidentiality with regards pupil information.

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.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Millbrook Combined School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 690 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Millbrook Combined School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/millbrook-combined-school

Here at Millbrook Combined School we get to know our children well as every child is special. We expect children to do their best and we have high expectations in relation to appearance, attitudes, behaviour, courtesy and work. We also demand high standards of ourselves. We pledge to provide high quality teaching and resources to help children learn.

Millbrook Combined is a successful primary school with a strong reputation in both the local community and wider educational environment. We are looking to appoint facility assistants as part of our development plan for growth in the coming years. We have various facility growth plans throughout the school including car parking, our own on site cafeteria, two main halls for hiring, swimming pool hire and more.

Please see our website for more information: www.millbrook.bucks.sch.uk

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