Kitchen Assistant

Poplar Street Primary School, Manchester, M34 5EF

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  4 November 2025

• Closing date

  17 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £4,352

Kitchen Assistant job summary

The Trustees at Victorious Academies Trust would like to appoint a Kitchen Assistant role at Poplar Street Primary School, Ravenwood Drive, Audenshaw, Manchester, M34 5EF.

Our Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and all roles at our academy are central to ensuring that we work to support this.

Details about the role:

To start November 2025 to 31st August 2026 or on the return of the postholder whichever is the soonest

The Kitchen Assistant full-time salary £24,413

This role is temporary, part-time 7.5 hour per week – Term Time Only with an actual salary £4,352 (Grade A – Scale Point 2)

Victorious Trust Academy are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking Catering Assistant to work as part of a team within the school who provide high quality, nutritious meals to pupils and staff.

Must have a friendly disposition, be willing to work as part of a team and help were needed. Must be willing to take undertake any job requested and work flexibly.

Duties include:

• serving pupils

• general cleaning

• assisting the Kitchen Manager as required.

Uniforms will be provided.

The Trust’s vision is to support young people to develop the aspiration, motivation and to be successful; we have high ambitions for all young people in our academies and this role will be central to ensuring that everything about the way we work supports this.

For more details about the role please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details about our Trust and our schools please see attached Trust Recruitment Pack.

The proposed timescale for the selection and interview process is as follows:

• Applications close at 09:00am on Monday 17th November 2025

• Interviews will take place on Tuesday 18th November 2025

Please note we may close the advert as soon as sufficient applications have been received, therefore if you are interested in applying, please do so as soon as you are able.

Victorious Academies Trust has a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and/or young people. We have robust processes and procedures to reduce risk and continuously promote a positive culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. The role described involves working with children and/or young people and is subject to Victorious Academies Trust’s Safer Recruitment Process.

All support staff roles within our Trust have a probationary period of three months.

All posts require an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

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 Poplar Street Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 449 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Poplar Street Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/poplar-street-primary-school

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