Kitchen Assistant

Spencer Academies Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 8,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational trust is seeking a part-time Kitchen Assistant for Ashwood Spencer Academy. This role involves supporting food preparation and maintaining a clean kitchen environment, catering to the needs of the academy's pupils in a fun and enthusiastic atmosphere. Applicants should be reliable, hardworking, and passionate about contributing to a positive school experience.

Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Looking for reliable, hardworking, and enthusiastic individuals.
• Experience in kitchen duties is preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist in food preparation and other kitchen duties.
• Ensure the cleanliness and organization of the kitchen.
• Support the kitchen team in providing quality meals to students.

Skills

Reliable

Hardworking

Enthusiastic

Education

No formal qualifications required

Job description

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Location: Ashwood Spencer Academy, Allenton Derby, DE24 8FT, UK

Salary: £7548 (NJC 2)

Education Phase: Primary

Working Pattern: Part-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Monday, 7th July 2025

Interview Date: Monday, 14th July 2025

About Us

Ashwood Spencer Academy are looking to appoint a Part Time, (hours 11:15 - 2:00), reliable, hardworking, fun and enthusiastic Kitchen Assistant to work in our school kitchen.

At Ashwood Spencer Academy we are dedicated to providing exemplary teaching and learning for all our children. Our DREAM curriculum ensures creativity is at its heart- encouraging oracy, tolerance and collaboration. Our aim is to develop respectful individuals, who aspire to follow their DREAMs. Ashwood is a magical place that offers enriching experiences within a loving and stimulating environment. At Ashwood we value our close relationships with our parents, governors and the community; working in partnership to enable our pupils to have the best possible start in their educational journey.

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
  
  

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
  
  

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact [e-mail] or 01332 348356.

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.

Closing date for applications Monday, 7th July 2025

Interviews will take place Monday, 14th July 2025

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.

If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

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

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Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous of service. For full details, click here https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employee-benefits

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