General Assistant (Catering)
Seaton Sluice Middle School, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, NE26 4JS10 days remaining to apply
Closing date
20 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 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
- £24,413.00 Annually (FTE) Band 1: £24,413 per annum (£7,050 pro rata, equivalent to £12.65 per hour)
General Assistant (Catering) job summary
Seaton Sluice Middle School
Alston Grove
Seaton Sluice
NE26 4JS
0191 237 1505
NE25 0FW
General Assistant (Catering)
12.5 hours per week, Term time plus 4 days 12 midday to 2.30pm
Band 1: £24,413 per annum (£7,050 pro rata, equivalent to £12.65 per hour)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our highly motivated and hard-working Catering team at Seaton Sluice Middle School.
You will be required to achieve high standards of food hygiene and cleanliness in our busy kitchen. You will be involved in preparing and serving food, handling payments and washing up/cleaning down the kitchen at the end of each service.
Our kitchen provides a break and lunch service for students aged 9-13 so you will need to be able to work well with children and young people, as well as part of a team.
The working hours are 12 midday to 2.30pm Monday to Friday, you will work term time, plus 4 days for deep cleaning, during the holidays.
Able to work independently or as part of a team, you will ideally have previous experience of food preparation and serving in a commercial setting as you will be required to operate a range of kitchen equipment and work to the school’s health and safety protocols. Excellent attendance, reliability and punctuality are important to us and the ideal candidate will also have some flexibility with their working hours.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced criminal records check is required for this post.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Seaton Sluice Middle School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 332 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Seaton Sluice Middle School website
The Seaton Valley Federation of Schools comprises Astley Community High School, Whytrig Middle School and Seaton Sluice Middle School, all located in south east Northumberland. All three schools share a Governing Body and Executive Headteacher to promote excellence in education from age 9-18 across Seaton Valley. Individually rated as 'Good' by Ofsted, we share common values and a passionate belief that every student should be enabled to succeed in all aspects of school life.
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