Mobile Catering Assistant
| Posting date: | 08 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £13.20 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2026 |
| Location: | West Midlands, WR5 2NP |
| Company: | Sodexo Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SDX/TP/2248949/158313 |
Summary
Mobile Catering Assistant
Covering Stourbridge, Halesowen, Worcester & SolihullLooking for a role where no two days are the same?
Join Sodexo as a Mobile Catering Assistant and become part of a supportive team delivering excellent school catering services across the West Midlands. This is the perfect opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, meeting new people, and working in different environments while making a positive impact on pupils every day.
As a Mobile Catering Assistant, you won't be based at just one school. Instead, you'll travel to support different school catering teams across Stourbridge, Halesowen, Worcester, and Solihull. You could be supporting a site for a single day, a week, or even a month, depending on business needs. This variety makes the role ideal for someone adaptable, proactive, and keen to broaden their experience across multiple sites.
Even better, you'll enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with no evening work, weekends off, public holidays off, and school holidays included.
What You'll Be DoingSupporting school kitchens across multiple locations as required.
Preparing nutritious and delicious meals for pupils and staff.
Assisting with food preparation, service, and presentation.
Keeping kitchen and serving areas clean, safe, and fully stocked.
Supporting the loading and unloading of deliveries.
Following food hygiene, allergen, and health & safety procedures.
Operating kitchen equipment safely and correctly.
Representing Sodexo professionally at every site you support.
Working collaboratively with different teams and quickly adapting to new environments.
A positive, flexible, and reliable attitude.
Someone who enjoys working as part of a team and supporting others.
Excellent communication and organisational skills.
The ability to adapt quickly to different schools and kitchen teams.
Strong time management and the ability to work well under pressure.
Previous catering, hospitality, retail, or customer service experience is desirable but not essential.
A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle is essential, as travel between sites will be required.
Working with Sodexo is more than just a job—it's an opportunity to be part of something bigger. You'll support school communities, develop valuable skills, and enjoy a role that offers variety, stability, and genuine career progression.
In addition, you'll benefit from:
School-friendly working hours
Weekends, bank holidays, and Christmas off
Full training provided
Uniform supplied
Employee Assistance Programme
24/7 wellbeing and mental health support
Discounts and cashback schemes
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension scheme
Career development opportunities
Volunteering opportunities within local communities
If you enjoy variety, love working with people, and want a role where you can make a difference every day, we'd love to hear from you.
This version sells the role much more strongly by focusing on variety, flexibility, travel, supporting different schools, career development, and work-life balance rather than just listing duties.
Package Description“Term-time roles. Full-time progression”
- £13.20 per hour
- 20 hours per week
- Working pattern: Monday - Friday (10am - 2pm, must be flexible)
- Term Time only (39 week Working Contract paid over 52 weeks)**
- This position requires and Driving Licence and access to a vehicle
- Mileage expenses: first 10.000 miles per miles 0.45pence miles, after it will be 0.25 pence per mile)
ALL TRAVEL EXPENSES ARE REIMBURSED Retention BONUS for all attached mobile roles – £200 on successful completion of 12 week probation, further £300 after 52 weeks complete employment in role.
**Equated pay (sometimes known as spread-over pay) is a method of paying you for your contracted hours, working weeks and holiday pay spread over 12 months instead of just receiving pay during the months that you work and none during the school closures/non-working weeks. This means that you get paid equal amounts of pay every month. Further information will be supplied at interview stage.**
About The CompanyAbout Sodexo
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.