Kitchen Assistant
The Westleigh School, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 5NL14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 16 hours - Monday to Friday - 39 weeks per year plus 2 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,657 - £24,027 FTE (Pay Award Pending)
Actual salary
- £8,779 - £8,917
Pay scale
- Grade 2 - SCP 8 - 10
Hourly rate
- £12.26 - £12.45 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a reliable and enthusiastic part-time Kitchen Assistant to join our friendly catering team. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the daily running of the school kitchen, helping to prepare and serve meals to students and staff. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our pupils receive nutritious food in a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting with food preparation and serving meals.
- Helping to keep the kitchen and dining areas clean and tidy.
- Washing up and operating basic kitchen equipment.
- Following health, safety, and hygiene procedures.
- Supporting the catering team as needed.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
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
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About The Westleigh School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 957 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Westleigh School website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
The Westleigh School is a secondary school providing education to pupils aged 11 to 16, as well as providing an adult education centre to members of the local community.
The school motto of “Aspiring and Achieving Together” accurately captures the shared vision which ensures that leaders at all levels are developing their ability to communicate high expectations.
At The Westleigh School, an unrelenting focus is placed on the quality of teaching above all else so that the pupils are able to grow in a continuously developing learning environment.
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