Kitchen Assistants (Part time - 6 hours per week) - Portland Academy
Portland Academy, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR3 2NQ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Upon completion of recruitment clearances
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: The post is based in the Cafe at Portland and the working hours are 11.00am - 2.00pm Monday and Tuesday only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.26 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
An individual with a passion for working in the catering service of a multi-academy trust
An enthusiastic and positive approach
Commitment to own professional development
Consistently high expectations and aspirations for our young people and yourself
Someone with strong attention to detail, thoroughness and a high level of integrity
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Complete commitment to the core values of Ascent
What the school offers its staff
An exciting opportunity to develop within this role
Comprehensive induction programme
Opportunity to work in settings which value multi-disciplinary ways of working
An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals who love what they do
A comprehensive wellbeing and support package for staff
This is an exceptional opportunity to make a difference within a positive and exciting environment. If you share our community’s ethos of diversity and collaboration, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Portland Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 204 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Portland Academy website
- Email address
- kismith@ascenttrust.org
- Phone number
- 07586719072
We cater for approximately 168 students between the ages of 11 and 19 who experience severe learning difficulties and profound, multiple and complex medical needs. A growing number of our pupils also have an Autistic spectrum condition. Portland offers co-educational day provision to pupils from a catchment area which covers the city of Sunderland and beyond.
The academy is able to offer a number of part time or assessment placements for identified pupils.
Portland Academy is part of ‘The Ascent Academies’ Trust’, a multi-academy trust which currently consists of 5 special schools across Sunderland, Durham and Stockton. This partnership provides us with a wealth of experience and knowledge and opens up many opportunities for working together to improve outcomes for our pupils.
The school has excellent facilities, including a social café, therapy pool, sensory room, OT Room, woodland walk, outdoor adventure area and bike track. These, together with a relevant, progressive and challenging curriculum delivered and supported by committed staff, enables us to offer a wonderful range of varied opportunities to enrich our pupils’ lives.
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