Kitchen Assistant
The Castle School, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5AUThis job expired on 20 August 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
20 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week 7:00am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday (includes an unpaid 30-minute lunch break) 38 weeks per year (Term time including one school INSET day)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- actual starting salary £20,004
Pay scale
- Catering Scale Point 1
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Castle School requires an efficient and flexible Kitchen Assistant to work in the busy school kitchen, preparing and serving food and refreshments for students, staff and visitors within our catering team.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last.
We would consider a 35-hour working week with a 7.30am start if this is more convenient for the successful candidate, with an actual salary of £18,670.
What the school offers its staff
The Castle School requires an efficient and flexible Kitchen Assistant to work in the busy school kitchen, preparing and serving food and refreshments for students, staff and visitors within our catering team.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last.
We would consider a 35-hour working week with a 7.30am start if this is more convenient for the successful candidate, with an actual salary of £18,670.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
About The Castle School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1202 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Castle School website
- Email address
- office@castle.bep.ac
The Blackdown Education Partnership is a multi-academy trust (MAT) working across Devon and Somerset. It was born of a merger between two established MATs: The Castle Partnership Trust and Uffculme Academy Trust and currently looks after a family of 12 schools: 6 primary and 6 secondary and 4 nurseries.
Blackdown Education Partnership is, therefore, a single organisation established to deliver the education and to safeguard the wellbeing of every child in our Trust. The Trust seeks to ensure that high quality collaboration and system leadership continue to improve the education in our schools. We are responsible for the good governance of the schools within our Trust and are accountable for the performance of each school. We work with an exceptional team of leaders, teachers and support staff whose combined efforts deliver on our promise to believe in every child.
We can offer you: An opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow. A friendly, busy and dynamic workplace where each day is different from the last. A competitive salary. Wider opportunities to be involved across our Trust. An energised and professional working environment.
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