General Kitchen Assistant

The Venn Boulevard Centre, HULL, HU3 3EL

3 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  23 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 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: £9,931.65 Annually (Actual)

General Kitchen Assistant job summary

This role is for 17.5 hours a week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus training days)

Are you enthusiastic, reliable, and enjoy working as part of a team? We are looking for a General Catering Assistant to join our friendly school catering team at Venn Boulevard & Sullivan Centre.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a busy kitchen environment, takes pride in providing healthy and nutritious meals, and wants to be part of a supportive school community.

About the Role

As a General Kitchen Assistant, you’ll help prepare and serve meals to our pupils, ensuring high standards of hygiene, safety, and customer service. You’ll play a key part in creating a positive lunchtime experience for our children.

Key Duties

• Assisting with the preparation, cooking, and serving of meals

• Maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen and dining areas

• Washing up and clearing away after service

• Complying with food hygiene and health & safety regulations

• [Supporting the cook and other team members as required]

We’re Looking For Someone Who Is:

• Friendly, approachable, and a good team player

• Able to follow instructions and work to deadlines

• Committed to maintaining high standards of cleanliness and food safety

• Reliable and punctual

• Experience in a kitchen or catering environment is desirable (training will be provided)

What We Offer:

• A supportive and welcoming school environment

• Term-time only working - ideal for work-life balance

• Uniform and training provided

• Local Government Pension Scheme, EAP, free flu vaccinations and access to a 24/7 GP service for you and your family

• An opportunity to make a positive impact every day

  This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in young people’s daily lives by ensuring they receive healthy, enjoyable meals every day.

  Please contact Regan Merrylees - Trust Catering Manager on regan.merrylees@vennacademy.org or telephone 07946001356 to have an informal conversation.

  Our Multi Academy Trust is a group of inspirational and aspirational mainstream and specialist schools in Yorkshire whose main objective is to ensure that all pupils make exceptional progress through the development of outstanding staff.

  Venn Academy Trust is committed to achieving fairness and equality in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

  Our Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.

  An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants

  Online searches will be carried out as part of Venn Academy Trust’s recruitment due diligence for all shortlisted candidates, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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

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 The Venn Boulevard Centre

• School type: Academy, ages 10 to 18
• School size: 60 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 10 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Venn Boulevard Centre website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-venn-boulevard-centre

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