Kitchen Assistant

Staynor Hall Primary Academy, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 8GE

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  15 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,413.00 - £24,769.00 Annually (FTE)

Kitchen Assistant job summary

Staynor Hall Community Primary Academy

Catering Assistant

Monday - Friday 10.00am - 1.45pm (18hrs and 45mins each week) , to be worked during the school term time

Permanent

£24,413 - £24,769 pro rata

Actual salary £10,534 - £10,688

Excellent benefits, including savings at a variety of high street shops and on holidays, generous pension schemes, free onsite car parking, plus family friendly and sick pay schemes

About the Trust

Ebor Academy Trust is a family of schools located across North and East Yorkshire, York and the Humber region. We think of ourselves as being one school across many sites, working collaboratively to deliver high quality, rich and engaging education in our diverse communities. Our aims are to enable all our learners to flourish and to open doors for their very best futures.

We genuinely seek to live by our values of Excellence, Belonging, Opportunity and Respect; these underpin how we work and how we relate to each other. We have high ambitions for our learners and staff and aim to deliver this through a culture of continuous development, support, kindness and understanding. We are a friendly trust that puts people first.

About the role

Staynor Hall are looking to recruit a Catering Assistant to work alongside the School Cook and team in their busy kitchen. This position is to work for 18 hours and 45 minutes per week during the school term time, this role is a permanent part time position.

You will play a key role in preparing healthy, nutritional and delicious meals for the children, staff and visitors to the school. Ensuring that the lunch hall is set up and ready for the children to have their lunch break and will help to clean the hall after the lunch time has finished.

You will help with serving the meals and ensuring that the kitchen meets the highest standards of cleanliness, helping to wash the pots and cutlery.

The job requirements

You will be a team player who is passionate providing children with a healthy and nutritional meals during their time at school. You will have a good understanding of a healthy and balance diet and the ability to cook tasty food while adhering to health and safety standards.

You will have good communication skills and a friendly and approachable manner. You will be a positive role model to the children.

Experience of working within a similar role would be an advantage however this is not essential as full training and support will be provided. You will however be committed to and have a good understanding of safeguarding children.

Working with us

When you join our Trust, you’ll start with a friendly induction to help you feel settled from day one. From there, you’ll get role-specific training and plenty of opportunities to keep learning and growing, whether through ongoing CPD, apprenticeships, or longer-term development programmes like our Ebor career pathways.

We’re proud to have high staff engagement, with great feedback in our staff surveys and from our exit interviews. People enjoy working here, feel supported, and know they’re making a difference.

We offer generous benefits too, including access to free private GP and nurse appointments, counselling services, and wellbeing support for you and your family. You’ll also get great discounts at high street stores and travel companies, free parking at all our schools, a brilliant pension, and family-friendly policies.

We’re committed to being an inclusive and diverse place to work, where everyone feels they belong. We welcome people from all backgrounds and walks of life and treat every application fairly and equally.

Keeping children safe is at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we follow safer recruitment practices (including enhanced DBS checks) and we ask all applicants to complete on online application (we don’t accept CVs).

If you feel that you align to our values of Excellence, Belonging, Opportunity and Respect and you want to help shape the lives of the next generation, then we would love to hear from you.

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 Staynor Hall Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 322 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Staynor Hall Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/staynor-hall-primary-academy

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