Salary: £12.65 per hour
Grade: AB
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 8.75 hours per week
Location: Sherburn In Elmet, West Yorkshire, Athelstan Primary School
We have an opportunity to join our award-winning Facilities Management catering team where you will be providing tasty, nutritious, home-cooked meals made from locally sourced fresh produce.
We are a ‘fresh food’ organisation encouraging children and young people to choose nutritious meals. eat well and fuelling their appetite for learning. We are proud to offer a wide choice of healthy options to our children encouraging them to We are currently recruiting a Catering Assistant to join our team at Athelstan Primary School.
As a Catering Assistant your role will be to support the Catering Manager in delivering an effective catering service operating to the highest standards of food safety. On a daily basis you will be serving meals to students and staff, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room.
You will be a valued member of our friendly team who is reliable, dependable and committed working from 11:45 am to 13:30 pm totalling to 8.75 hrs per week and no weekend work! You will work term time weeks only however you will receive equal monthly payments throughout the year. For this you will be paid £12.65 per hour in addition to annual holiday and Bank Holiday entitlement.
What can we offer you?
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.
These include:
• A local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
• Travel loans
• Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.
This post requires an Enhanced DBS, the cost of which will be met by the Employer.
More Information
If you would like an informal chat please contact Geraldine Johnson (Area Manager) on 07974427178 or email at Geraldine.johnson@northyorks.gov.uk
Please note we will be interviewing whilst the role is live and reserve the right to close the advert should suitable candidates be appointed.
Key Documents
Key Dates
Closing Date: 23rd November 2025
Interview Date: 1st December 2025
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.