Salary: £13.28 per hour
Grade: AB
Contract: Fixed Term (1 year)
Hours: 15 hours per week
Location: Hull, East Yorkshire- Kingswood Parks Primary School
Looking for a rewarding part-time role that fits around family life and gives you your evenings, weekends and school holidays?
Join our friendly school catering team and play an important part in providing healthy, nutritious meals to children every school day.
We’re looking for a Catering Assistant to join our team on a fixed-term contract for approximately one year, providing maternity leave cover. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, being part of a busy team and taking pride in providing a great service. Whether you already have catering experience or are looking for a change of direction, we’d love to hear from you.
While this role is initially fixed term, there may be the opportunity to move into a permanent position at the end of the maternity cover for the right person, subject to service requirements and suitable opportunities being available.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Catering Assistant, you’ll work alongside the Cook and wider kitchen team to help make sure the catering service runs smoothly each day.
Your duties will include:
· Preparing food and ingredients ready for service
· Assisting with food preparation and presentation
· Serving meals to pupils and staff
· Operating tills where required
· Washing up and cleaning kitchen equipment
· Keeping the kitchen and service areas clean and organised
· Maintaining high standards of food hygiene and food safety
· Completing relevant food safety and cleaning records
· Supporting the Cook and wider catering team as required
· Providing friendly and welcoming customer service to pupils and staff
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
· Friendly, reliable and enthusiastic
· A good team player with a positive attitude
· Happy working in a busy school kitchen
· Passionate about providing excellent customer service
· Committed to maintaining high standards of cleanliness, food safety and hygiene
· Willing to learn and support the team wherever needed
· Previous catering experience is welcome but isn’t essential, as full training will be provided.
· More important to us is finding someone with the right attitude who is reliable, enjoys working as part of a team and wants to help us provide a great catering service for our school.
A Role That Works Around Family Life.
Working in school catering can offer a fantastic work-life balance. With Monday to Friday daytime working and no evening or weekend shifts, this role can work particularly well around family commitments and other responsibilities. You’ll also be working as part of the school community, helping to make lunchtime an enjoyable part of the school day for our pupils.
Why Apply?
· Fixed-term employment for approximately one year, covering maternity leave
· Potential opportunity to move into a permanent role at the end of the fixed-term period for the right person
· Monday to Friday working
· Daytime hours
· No evening working
· No weekend working
· School-based working environment
· A friendly and supportive catering team
· Full training provided
· Opportunity to develop your catering and food service experience
· A rewarding role where you can make a difference to children every day
Join a Team That Makes a Difference
School catering is about much more than simply serving lunch. Every meal we prepare contributes to a positive school day for our pupils. You’ll be joining a team that takes pride in providing good food, great service and a welcoming lunchtime experience. If you’re reliable, enjoy working with people and are looking for a rewarding part-time role with a great work-life balance, we’d love to hear from you.
For full details of the benefits of working with us, please see our Total Rewards brochure.
Contact and More Information
For an informal chat about the role, please contact: Amy Corson Email: Amy.corson@northyorks.gov.uk
Interested?
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Due to the nature of the role, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications and identify a suitable candidate. If you’re interested in joining our team, please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Key Dates:
Closing date: 22nd November 2026
Interview date: 24th November 2026
Venue for Interview: Teams video call
Key Documents:
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