Catering Assistant

Job description

Position:Catering Assistant

Salary: Scale 1B, (school term time only)

Hours of work: Part Time 20 hours per week

Contract Term: Permanent

Closing Date & Time: 12pm on Friday

Shortlisting: WB 1st September 2025

Interviews: 12th September 2025 Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email by Friday 6th September

Start date : September 2025

Are you a talented, passionate, and experienced chef looking to make a real difference?
Do you believe that great food has the power to transform children’s health, education, and wellbeing?
If so, we want you to lead our school’s food culture revolution! Cook amazing meals the children
will love and have the opportunity to engage with the school food curriculum.

Why Join Us?

At Lancasterian Primary School, we believe that school meals should be fresh, nutritious, and exciting—not just fuel for the day, but an integral part of education. We are looking for a Catering Assistant to join our catering team and inspire a love of food and cooking across the school.We are working in partnership with Chefs in Schools (https://chefsinschools.org.uk/) to enhance the catering team at Lancasterian Primary School. This has created an exciting opportunity for a Catering Assistant who will assist in developing, implementing and continuously improving the culinary vision for the school.

Lancasterian Primary is a two-form entry school in the heart of Tottenham, a busy, exciting and energetic part of London. We are proud of our diverse, welcoming and enthusiastic learning community. The leadership team has a clear vision to ensure that all children and adults at the school have the opportunity to thrive and excel. One of our current school improvement priorities for this year is to, ‘Revolutionise the school’s catering offer to provide healthy, substantial and enjoyable food for children’, and we’re looking for the right person to enable us to achieve this goal.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Assisting a team to cook fresh, seasonal meals from scratch.
What We’re Looking For:
• Experience in a professional kitchen team.
• Someone who loves working with children, teachers, and parents to make food exciting.
• A strong understanding of food hygiene, budgeting, and stock control.
For successful candidates we offer:
• An attractive site and kitchen facilities which have been well resourced and effectively maintained.
• A supportive senior leadership team who understands that rapid school improvement and staff wellbeing must go hand in hand
• Fantastic professional development and career enhancement opportunities
• Excellent transport links

If this sounds like the job for you then please contact us to find out more!

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged and can be arranged by contacting the school. Please visit our school website to download the application pack (https://www.lancasterianprimary.co.uk/keyinformation/staff-vacancies) and contact the office to arrange a visit or if you require further assistance, on 020 8808 8088.

Lancasterian Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to pre-employment checks, in addition, as part of the shortlisting process, we may conduct an online search as part of due diligence checks in the recruitment process.

References will be sought and successful candidates will need to undertake an enhanced DBS check