Kitchen Assistant
| Posting date: | 10 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 5NL |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 052c2dbe-033e-4173-b237-cf307daf189f |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a reliable and enthusiastic part-time Kitchen Assistant to join our friendly catering team. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the daily running of the school kitchen, helping to prepare and serve meals to students and staff. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our pupils receive nutritious food in a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• Assisting with food preparation and serving meals.
• Helping to keep the kitchen and dining areas clean and tidy.
• Washing up and operating basic kitchen equipment.
• Following health, safety, and hygiene procedures.
• Supporting the catering team as needed.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
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.
We are looking for a reliable and enthusiastic part-time Kitchen Assistant to join our friendly catering team. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will support the daily running of the school kitchen, helping to prepare and serve meals to students and staff. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our pupils receive nutritious food in a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• Assisting with food preparation and serving meals.
• Helping to keep the kitchen and dining areas clean and tidy.
• Washing up and operating basic kitchen equipment.
• Following health, safety, and hygiene procedures.
• Supporting the catering team as needed.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
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.