Catering Assistant with a Super Team and Fantastic Children (7.5 Hours Per Week) - Part-time

Cobham Primary School, Gravesend

Ref:KCC886-2094-56S
Posted:22/07/2025
Pay:KSA (formerly KR3)
Start Date:1st September 2025
App Close Date:22/08/2025 at 17:00
Interviews:w/c 25th August

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Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children? Do you want to be part of a close-knit team in a welcoming village community? We are looking for a dedicated and nurturing Catering Assistant to join our small but vibrant school, where every child is known, valued, and supported to succeed.

At Cobham Primary School, we are really passionate about children being well nourished as well as having the positive experience of eating as a community. Our children enjoy high-quality food provided by Apetito, in a family-style dining environment.

Apetito provides frozen prepared meals, which are cooked on site in the school ovens. These meals are then served by table to the children. The role requires a very small amount of food preparation (e.g. cutting up bread).

In family-style dining, children sit together at a table and a serving dish is brought to the table. The head of the table shares the food out between the children, and once everyone is served the children all eat together. Children work together to clear the table after they have finished and go out to play after their table is cleared. It is a great chance to have meaningful conversations, learn the skills of setting a table, using table manners and working as a team.

We are seeking a Catering Assistant to help deliver our vision for a really positive dining experience for all children.

Information about the school

Cobham Primary School is an Outstanding primary school with a strong sense of belonging to a positive school culture, with audacious dreams of excellence for our children and our community. Despite being a small, single-form village primary, we have big aspirations and hope our children do, too - we are always courageous about school improvement and encourage our children to be courageous in their learning, too. We have positive relationships with our local community as well as the network of organisations that we work with to achieve our goals - we aim to be a responsible part of that community and to look after our school and its people. Cobham is proud to nurture its staff as well as its children and our team benefit from a range of support, from excellent professional development, networking, visits to others schools to flexibility and access to all of KCC’s pensions and benefits.

Why Work with Us?

Make a difference: Our children with SEND make the best progress in the school and we pride ourselves on ensuring our children with SEND achieve beyond their expectations.

A strong team: We are a strong, aligned team with a clear culture of open and honest mutual accountability.

A values-driven team: Our values are much more than words to us and we actively live them every day. Our Beacon values are Belonging, Excellence, Aspiration, Courage, Ownership, and Nurture.

An inclusion-focused school: Our most vulnerable children are at the heart of a whole-school inclusive culture and we know that the teaching assistants who work with them are some of the most important people in the team. We support them accordingly.

Learn and grow: Cobham is committed to innovative, evidence-informed teaching and inclusive practice. We have a strong professional development curriculum for all staff.

Job Contact Information

Name:Sarah Dawes - Office Manager
Address:The Street, Cobham, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 3BN
Telephone: (01474) 814373
Email: office@cobham.kent.sch.uk

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