Job Title: Catering Assistant
Location: Laurence Jackson School (Guisborough)
Start Date: October 2025
Actual Salary: £9,025 (Grade C, SCP 3)
Hours of Work: 16 hours per week, term time only
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 12.00pm, Monday 22 September 2025
Interviews: W/C Monday 22 September 2025
About the Role
We are seeking to appoint a Catering Assistant. Your role will be to support the Catering Manager in delivering an effective catering service in a busy school kitchen, operating to the highest standards of food safety. On a daily basis you will be serving meals to students and staff, setting out and clearing away dining furniture, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room, basic food preparation.
About Us
We are a newly merged Trust, Spark Education Trust which currently consists of 11 Primary Schools and 4 Secondary Schools. The Spark Education Trust can offer you a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity, working with collaborative schools that are passionate about the progress and development of every student.
What we have:
* A positive and caring ethos and working atmosphere
* Friendly children, eager to learn and achieve
* An aspirational curriculum for all students
* A committed, enthusiastic and supportive staff team
* Excellent support from the Governing Body, the staff and parents/carers
* Opportunities for career development
For further details on us as an organisation, please click here
For further information on the school, please click here or contact the Vacancies Team at vacancies@laurencejackson.org
How to Apply
Please make sure that the application form is completed and returned via email to vacancies@laurencejackson.org addressed to Mrs C Juckes, Headteacher.
Please note that feedback will only be given to shortlisted candidates, if you do not receive an invite to interview within 30 days of the advert’s closing date assume that you have been unsuccessful in your application for this post.
Safeguarding Notice
The Spark Education Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. The post you are applying for is exempt from the rehabilitation of offender’s act 1974. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents or issues that are publicly available online.