Pleckgate High School
Blackburn with Darwen
£7,366 - £7,367 per year
Salary:
SCP 3 15 hours per week, actual salary £7367 per annum
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
01 October 2025
Apply by:
26 September 2025
Job overview
The Job:
Pleckgate High School seek to appoint a Catering Assistant on a part time basis working 12.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday 12:15 – 14:45) over 39 weeks per year. The actual salary for this position is £7,367 per annum.
What does this job do?
* To provide and maintain a high standard of catering in the school.
* To ensure catering areas of the school are prepared for relevant use, as directed.
* What are the job requirements?
* Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to Health and Safety and security. Child protection, confidentiality and data protection and reporting all concerns to an appropriate member of staff.
* Ensure that all Health and Food Safety policies are adhered to.
* Use all equipment in a safe manner and report any faults/incidents to the appropriate member of staff.
About Pleckgate High School:
We are a large secondary school, part of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), situated on the northern outskirts of Blackburn. Our school community is made up of 1350 students and 180 staff with excellent facilities to benefit both the school and local community. Pleckgate High School is a thriving multicultural community that places the best interests of young people at the heart of everything we do.
We are an ambitious school with high expectations for ourselves and our pupils. We are committed to providing excellent teaching and learning and we want all our pupils to be safe, happy and successful. In our Ofsted report in June 2024, our school was described as offering a "harmonious and supportive environment. Pupils learn the importance of being kind and respectful towards others". Every pupil at Pleckgate is encouraged to have ambitious goals and to work hard. A copy of our full report is available from the school website.
We are proud of our achievements – our ambitious curriculum, our examination success, opportunities for pupils' personal development, our charity work and our community involvement. We are significantly oversubscribed and pupils achieve positive outcomes at Pleckgate.
We are significantly oversubscribed and pupils achieve positive outcomes at Pleckgate. We are proud of how staff support pupils in achieving success both academically and through sport.
As a staff member of Pleckgate High School, you will be able to take advantage of the staff benefits, available through the EPT, which includes access to both the Simply Health and Discount for Teachers schemes.
If you have any questions about our school, or the role itself, please don't hesitate to get in touch and please visit our school website to get a flavour of what we have to offer.
About the Education Partnership Trust (EPT):
EPT was established in 2012 as a multi-academy trust and is an approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities. We benefit from our diverse and unique range of schools which include secondary mainstream, alternative provision and special and have a proven track record of sustained improvement. Our schools are united by a drive to improve opportunities and outcomes for children and young people within a collaborative learning culture.
Our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances. As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed.
Our extensive range of rewards and benefits include:
* Healthcare cash back plan provided free by the trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
* Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling, CBT, and wellbeing initiatives.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Access to government pension schemes.
* Free parking.
* Electric Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice).
* Training, mentoring and progression opportunities.
* Trust wide intranet to share knowledge and resources.
Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team -
We warmly welcome a visit to the school or an informal conversation prior to application. Please contact Claire Hopkinson @ -
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About Pleckgate High School
Pleckgate High School
Pleckgate Road, Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 8QA
United Kingdom
Message from the Head Teacher
"Pupils at this school are strongly supported to develop aspirational goals for their future lives. They thrive in a well-established culture of high academic expectations" - Ofsted 2024
Dear Candidate,
Pleckgate High School is a large, outstanding secondary school under the sponsorship of the Education Partnership Trust (EPT), situated on the northern outskirts of Blackburn with Darwen. Our school community is made up of 1350 pupils and 180 staff with excellent facilities to benefit both the school and local community. Pleckgate High School is a thriving multicultural community that places the best interests of young people at the heart of everything we do.
We are an ambitious school with high expectations for ourselves and our pupils. We are committed to providing excellent teaching and learning and we want all our pupils to be safe, happy and successful. In our Ofsted report in June 2024, when we received our second 'Outstanding' judgement in all areas, our school was described as offering a "harmonious and supportive environment. Pupils learn the importance of being kind and respectful towards others". Every pupil at Pleckgate is encouraged to have ambitious goals and to work hard.
We are proud of our achievements – our ambitious curriculum, our examination success, opportunities for pupils' personal development, our charity work and our community involvement.We are committed to the pursuit of outstanding teaching and learning alongside the highest possible academic, personal and moral standards. This commitment is built upon a shared belief in hard work, self-reflection and a culture of respect and support for others.
We are significantly oversubscribed and pupils achieve positive outcomes at Pleckgate. We are proud of how staff support pupils in achieving success both academically and through sport.
As a staff member of Pleckgate High School, you will be able to take advantage of the staff benefits, available through the EPT, which includes access to both the Simply Health and Discount for Teachers schemes. We also have an Associate member of our Senior Leadership Team whose role is to work with our staff on staff wellbeing, working to ensure you have a balanced home and work life-style.
If you have any questions about our school, or the role itself, please don't hesitate to get in touch and please visit our school website to get a flavour of what we have to offer.
Yours sincerely
Aishling McGinty
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