School Catering Assistant
Wimbledon College, London, SW19 4NS13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 October 2025
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 11am to 2pm: 3 hours per day: Monday to Friday (15 hours per week), 37 weeks in term time
Contract type
- Fixed term - One Year initially
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,221 p.a Pro Rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
The ideal candidate is a proactive and reliable individual with a positive attitude and a passion for providing excellent service. You'll be a key part of our catering team, helping to prepare, cook, and serve high-quality, nutritious food for pupils and staff.
While previous catering experience is a plus, it is not essential as training will be provided.
Skills and Attributes:
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact positively with both children and adults.
A friendly, polite, and upbeat attitude with a good sense of humor.
Exceptional timekeeping and reliability.
Ability to work methodically and practically, using initiative to work without close supervision.
A flexible team player who can work well under pressure and support colleagues as needed.
A commitment to maintaining high standards of health, hygiene, and safety.
This role requires standing for long periods and the ability to lift heavy items, and you will be working in a fast-paced kitchen environment.
What the school offers its staff
- Term-time hours (37 weeks per year)
- 5 days per week 11am – 2 pm
- Pro rata 6 weeks paid holiday included in monthly spread over payments. (Actual Salary £15.50 per hour, £10,049 p.a)
- The opportunity of working within a supportive, friendly environment in this well run and respected school.
- Competitive salary.
- Pension Scheme.
- Access to gym and free access to employee assistance programme.
- Great Transport links, bus, tube, train and tram
Further information about the job
A Day in the Life
As a Catering Assistant, your main responsibilities will involve the preparation, cooking, and serving of fresh, healthy, and delicious food. You'll also play a key role in maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen and dining areas, assisting with deliveries, and ensuring all tasks are carried out in compliance with health and hygiene requirements. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, sometimes noisy environment, and will require you to be on your feet for long periods and carry heavy items.
Commitment to safeguarding
At Wimbledon College we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils.
We make every effort to provide an environment in which children and adults feel safe, secure, valued and respected, and feel confident to talk if they are worried, believing they will be effectively listened to.
We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding policy.
Applying for the job
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About Wimbledon College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1258 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wimbledon College website
- Email address
- hr@wimbledoncollege.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02089462533
Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level with results significantly above national averages. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.
The school is accommodated in striking Grade II listed buildings on Edge Hill, above the parish church of the Sacred Heart, on a spacious green site in a conservation area. Private and public funds have facilitated a substantial development of the facilities of the College over the last fifteen years.
The College currently has close to 1300 boys on roll including 270 in the Sixth Form. It is a great place to work with a supportive, committed staff who share the school’s high expectations. All teachers are specialists in their subjects and there is a well-established CPD programme which encourages staff to work collaboratively on self-identified areas of research and pedagogy.
Wimbledon College has a strong system of pastoral care and discipline. All teachers are form tutors and work with Heads of Line in ensuring every boy is supported, cared for and challenged to progress academically and become involved in the wider life of the school. The school’s intake is truly comprehensive academically, socially and economically and ethnically. It draws from across southwest London and from Surrey and north of the Thames also. Last year saw boys join the College from over 40 different schools. Places in Y7 are regularly oversubscribed threefold.
We encourage all of our boys to be involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities and we offer over 80 different such opportunities to the boys. The school has a strong tradition of drama and music as well as a very extensive sports programme in the school, financially supported by parents’ donations to the School Fund.
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