The vacancy
Join our friendly catering team and help deliver an outstanding service to staff and students.
We are looking for a motivated and customer-focused Catering Assistant to provide high-quality food service across our college sites. You will play a key role in preparing and serving food and drinks, maintaining excellent hygiene standards, and ensuring a positive experience for all customers.
Actual Salary: £13,810.92 per annum
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (9:00am - 2:00pm) 25 hours a week
Essential Criteria
1. Relevant Food Hygiene qualification (or willingness to work towards)
2. Recent experience in a similar catering role
3. Strong customer service skills
4. Ability to work flexibly across sites and as part of a team
5. Experience of food preparation, cooking and service
Key Responsibilities
6. Assist in the preparation of food, snacks and drinks within on-site catering facilities
7. Maintain high standards of cleanliness and food hygiene in kitchen and dining areas
8. Provide prompt, efficient and friendly service to customers
9. Report customer requests and complaints promptly to the Catering Manager
10. Work collaboratively with the catering team and support wider Estates and Facilities services
Why Join Us?
11. Competitive salary
12. 30 Bookable annual leave days, bank holidays, and 2 weeks off at Christmas.
13. Professional development opportunities.
14. Access to same-day GP appointments, high street discounts, discounted hair and beauty treatments, electric car scheme.
15. On-site gym & florist (site dependent).
16. Access to our In-house Food Hall & Coffee Shops.
Additional Information
17. Safer Recruitment: As part of the recruitment process and in line with keeping children safe in education, we will conduct social media checks on shortlisted candidates. Additionally, before commencing employment, all employees undergo safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS.
18. Right to Work: Applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Closing date: 4th January 2026
For further information about this role, please contact staff.recruitment@dncolleges.ac.uk.
About us
North Lindsey College has been a key training provider in Scunthorpe for over 60 years, helping thousands of people throughout the years to go on to achieve their dreams.
We offer post-16 study programmes, apprenticeships, traineeships, part-time short courses and Higher Education programmes.
Across all of our provision we work closely with employers across every sector in this region and further afield, to help you gain the skills you need to progress into your chosen career.
The benefits
All employees at DN Colleges Group enjoy a generous annual leave allowance, as well as an additional 2 weeks closure over the Christmas period. We encourage all our teams to take regular breaks, no longer than 3 weeks, to enjoy a healthy work life balance.
DN Colleges Group are committed to Health and Wellbeing of all our employees. We have an increasing number of provisions exclusive to our employees, designed to help you stay at your best or to assist and provide support when you need it.
On site
nursery
Generous annual leave
2 weeks off at Christmas
Electric car scheme
19. Vivup – Employee Wellbeing and Benefits platform
20. Wellness initiatives, onsite during your working week. This could include health visitors, financial advisers, or physio specialists.
21. Onsite fitness classes, at lunchtime or after work in conjunction with our Sports colleagues.
22. Cycle to Work and Electric car scheme
23. Free Eye Care Vouchers
24. Discounted Hair and Beauty services
25. On site nursery
26. Online access to Remploy which is our 24/7 confidential mental health and counselling resource.
27. In house counselling/safeguarding specialists to assist in Wellbeing
Lets Teach Programme
Let’s Teach The LET’s teach programme supports new members of teaching staff in terms of college systems and key teaching and learning areas including new staff lesson visits and postcard peeps. Each new member of staff has an allocated Lead Practitioner who works closely with them throughout the programme.
Let’s Bloom
The LET’s Bloom Programme aims to connect our experienced and qualified teachers to share best practice and support continued risk-taking as we continue to add depth to our teaching craft. Teachers volunteer on this one year programme, working closely with the Learning Enhancement Team, capturing their experimentation in a journal.