Kitchen Assistant (Term Time Only)
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 3QU17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 June 2026
Closing date
22 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 May 2026
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
- £24,735.00 Annually (FTE) Approx £11587 Actual Annual Salary
Kitchen Assistant (Term Time Only) job summary
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School are looking for a Kitchen Assistant to join our friendly and hardworking school kitchen team and help keep the heart of our school running smoothly.
This post is for 20.5 hours per week, term time only (38 weeks)
Mon-10.30-2.00
Tues-9.00-2.00
Wed10.30-2.00
Thurs-9.00-2.00
Fri-10.30-2.00
The Role
As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the kitchen team in delivering nutritious lunches to our pupils. Your duties will include:
- Assisting with food preparation
- Keeping the kitchen clean, safe, and tidy at all times
- Washing up and maintaining kitchen equipment
- Supporting the team to ensure lunchtime runs smoothly
- Serving food to our pupils in a friendly and welcoming manner
About You
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Reliable, friendly, and hardworking
- A team player with a positive attitude and a good sense of humour
- Happy to work in a busy school environment
Previous experience is welcome but not essential — full training will be provided.
Additional Information
We warmly encourage visits to the school. To arrange a tour or an informal conversation, please contact the school office.
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to follow the relevant safeguarding procedures, including Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) guidance, and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
All applications to be made via My New Term.
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 St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School
- School type
- Academies, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 389 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School website
Welcome to St. George’s Church of England Primary School. As a Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School, we lead the community by following the teachings of Christ through holistically ensuring excellence for all. Through our happy, secure and stimulating environment all members of the school community grow in self-esteem and potential. Their spiritual, academic and social needs are celebrated as part of daily life.
We are a successful school with a strong Christian ethos set in the delightful Minster area with close links to Minster Abbey our local church.
The staff and governors of the school are committed to providing all pupils with a secure and caring environment in which they develop lively and enquiring minds, confidence and skills. Our record of accomplishment is exemplified in consistently good attainment for our children. The staff and governors of the school aim to provide the children with an education that is broadly based and tailored to meet the children’s individual needs. We provide a caring and happy positive atmosphere in which a child may fulfil his/her potential and grow in self-confidence and respect for the people and environment around them.
We are committed to the ideal of a partnership in education between home and school and, to this end, prospective parents are invited to visit the school and meet the staff and children. Home learning actively celebrates this partnership during celebration events.
We take every opportunity to celebrate our School with photos and pictures in the local press and our own social media pages. You can follow us on our page on Facebook. Please check our website for regular updates.
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