Catering Assistant

Are you passionate about food and promoting healthy eating? Are you looking for a rewarding catering assistant opportunity and help us deliver nutritious, enjoyable school meals to pupils? 

Extend Learning Academies Network (ELAN) has an exciting opportunity for a reliable, enthusiastic and hardworking catering assistant to join our successful trust-wide catering services team.

This is an ideal role for someone looking for a school catering job, kitchen assistant role, food service assistant position, or part-time catering work in Weston-super-Mare. Whether you have previous experience in a school kitchen, café, restaurant or food preparation environment, or are looking to develop a career in catering, we'd love to hear from you.

As a catering assistant, you will help provide nutritious, high-quality meals to pupils while ensuring our kitchens maintain the highest standards of cleanliness, food safety and customer service.

Hours: 15 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent term-time only, 39 weeks per year, including 15 INSET hours per academic year

Interview date: 6 October 2026

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and serving hot and cold school meals
• Supporting the day-to-day operation of the school kitchen
• Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, health and safety, and allergen compliance
• Cleaning kitchen equipment, food preparation areas and dining spaces
• Assisting with stock control and kitchen organisation
• Encouraging healthy eating and providing excellent customer service to pupils
• Helping create a safe, welcoming and enjoyable lunchtime environment

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with an interest in school catering, kitchen assistant, food service, hospitality or catering support roles who enjoys working in a busy environment and making a positive difference to children's wellbeing.

Why Join ELAN?

At ELAN, we value our staff and provide a supportive working environment where colleagues can thrive.

Benefits include:

• Generous local government pension scheme
•  Ongoing training and development opportunities
•  Term-time working pattern supporting work-life balance
•  Friendly and supportive team environment
•  Opportunity to make a positive difference to children's wellbeing and education
•  Working across a successful and growing Multi-Academy Trust

This post involves regulated activity with children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.