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Catering Assistant - Part-time

Copperfield Academy, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-2024-231S
  • Posted:15/09/2021
  • Pay:Kent Range 3
  • Start Date:Immediate
  • App Close Date:30/09/2021 at 17:00
  • Interviews:TBA

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Fabulous Catering Assistant Needed! 

Salary: Kent Range 3, £18,425 fte, £4,173 actual salary

Contract type:  10 hours per week, 11.30am to 1.30pm, 38 weeks per year (term time only)

REAch2 is a National Living Wage employer.  As such we will always ensure that all our employees receive no less than the national living wage.

 Are you:

  • Hard-working, honest, dependable and self-motivated?
  • Capable of establishing good working relationships with staff, pupils and parents?
  • Committed to team-work?
  • Child-centered and solution focused?

If so, you’ll love to work at Copperfield Academy!

It is an exciting time in our kitchen as we are establishing a new team under our Trust’s catering provision REAchEat.

Our children deserve the best and as a Catering Assistant at Copperfield Academy you will be a part of our innovative approach to school catering. You will have a passion for providing high quality meals using fresh, local produce as well as delivering exceptional service to our amazing pupils and staff.

Food served in school forms a part of our healthy school’s ethos, and exceptional nutrition supports our drive for exceptional opportunities for learning.  The successful applicant can expect to work as part of a committed school team. 

We can offer you:

  • A firm commitment to you and your professional development
  • Friendly, supportive, enthusiastic and hardworking colleagues, staff and governors
  • An inspiring learning community
  • Encouragement to develop new ideas and the opportunity to make a real difference
  • Opportunities to further develop your career within our Multi Academy Trust, REAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust in the country
  • And, most importantly, AMAZING children just waiting to meet you.

How to apply 

If you would like an informal discussion with the Catering Lead, please contact Dee Formby at dee.formby@reach2.org or telephone 07785 445305. 

Visits to the school are welcomed, please contact nicola.creed@copperfieldacademy.org to arrange.

We hope you will take the time to find out more about our academy and experience our warm welcome.

For further details, please see the job description and person specification.

Start Date: as soon as possible

Closing Date:  30th September 2021
Interview Date: TBA

Please apply via Kent Teach.  CV’s will not be accepted without a completed application form.

Additional Information

Copperfield Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This position is subject to an enhanced DBS Check with barred list and satisfactory written references.

The school and REAch2 Academy Trust reserves the right to appoint earlier if an exceptional candidate applies for the post, so early applications are strongly encouraged.

Information about the school

Copperfield is an old and long-established Northfleet School, having opened as Dover Road School in 1904.

Increasing success in recent years has meant we are fast becoming a very popular school with local families, and we currently have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren here of former pupils. We are known for extending a warm welcome to families that are new to Gravesend and to many families new to the UK.

As part of the nationwide REAch2 Academy Trust, leaders and staff at Copperfield are committed to working hard to ensure it is a happy school where pupils of all ages thoroughly enjoy their learning and being at school. We consider ourselves to be a supportive extended family of, and for, all our families that is able to meet the needs of the most-able and the most-challenged.

It is now formally recognised that Copperfield Academy is a good school, and a vibrant school. Classrooms are calm and purposeful places, where pupils learn in a safe atmosphere. Leaders are determined that every pupil’s experience, regardless of their individual needs, is a positive and successful one. As a result, pupils flourish and thrive.

Job Contact Information

Fax: 01474 352413

Documents

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.