Catering Assistant

Ashwood Spencer Academy; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 4,680 - 6,240; Part time

Job summary

Ashwood Spencer Academy in England is seeking a passionate catering assistant to join a busy, fast-paced kitchen, assisting with preparing simple, child-friendly meals under the supervision of the catering manager.

The role is part-time, Thursday and Friday 9:00–14:00, and involves helping with food preparation, washing up, serving meals, and upholding health and safety standards to support pupils’ balanced choices. A positive, collaborative approach and reliability are important.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of foodstuffs and basic cooking.
• Washing up and general kitchen duties.
• Serving food ensuring that pupils are helped to make a balanced choice and that the correct portion control is made as per the National Nutritional Standards.
• Supporting the catering team during service.
• Cleaning the kitchen, its surrounds and equipment.
• Following all health and safety laws and guidance and working within the food hygiene standards.
• Undertaking training to support the job.

Job description

Ashwood Spencer Academy are looking for a passionate, caring catering assistant to work in their busy, fun and fast packed kitchen. You will be able to assist with preparing simple, child-friendly meals under the supervision of the catering manager. The role is Part Time, Thursday & Friday 9:00 - 2:00

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the Role:

• Preparation of foodstuffs and basic cooking.
• Washing up and general kitchen duties.
• Serving food ensuring that pupils are helped to make a balanced choice and that the correct portion control is made as per the National Nutritional Standards.
• Supporting the catering team during service.
• Cleaning the kitchen, its surrounds and equipment.
• Following all health and safety laws and guidance and working within the food hygiene standards.
• Undertaking training to support the job.

Ashwood Spencer Academy joined Spencer Academies Trust in November 2018 and has gone from strength to strength each academic year. We have approximately 675 pupils on roll from nursery to year 6 and we are proud of our changing, diverse school community. Ashwood Spencer is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all our pupils. In October 2022, we received the IQM Inclusion Quality Mark with Centre of Excellence status. In our recent Ofsted inspection in February 2023, we were recognised as a ‘good’ school and we want to continue to improve on that status, by making the staff, pupils and community experience at Ashwood a magical one.

We are fully committed to our ethos of ‘Working together to believe and achieve’.

We work hard to make Ashwood a place to DREAM:

• Determined risk takers who want to succeed
• Resilient and respectful learners
• Expressive communicators
• Ambitious achievers, unafraid of mistakes
• Magic happens when you dream

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date. Previous applicants need not re-apply.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre‑employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer