About the role
School Cook/Catering Assistant
Pay Scale: H3, Term Time Only + 5 Inset Days
Working hrs: 15 hrs per week to be worked Monday – Friday (10.30am – 13.30pm to cover break and lunch times)
Starting date: 03rd September 2025
Location: Based across both sites (Letchworth Garden City and Hitchin)
The North Herts Education Support Centre are currently recruiting for a friendly, enthusiastic and motivated person to join our team. The purpose of the role is to provide home style cooked meals for our students over two sites - in Letchworth & in Hitchin. When at capacity, there will be 33 students on site. across the two Centres. The role will also include mentoring and possible 1:1 cooking sessions, ensuring a safe learning and working environment for our students and staff.
To be successful in this role, the applicant must be able to work independently, be able to use their own initiative, a strong team player, empathetic and a positive character in the Centre.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate. You will be joining a dedicated team who will contribute to an outstanding working environment, which supports staff and students.
Due to the continuing development of our Centre and the exciting news that we will have a new build on site in the future (Briar Patch Lane, Letchworth), there will be potential for personal development opportunities for the successful candidate.
Included is a detailed Job Description and Person specification.
North Herts Education Support Centre
The North Herts Education Support Centre is an Ofsted Outstanding Provider of educational programmes to support students who are at serious risk of permanent exclusion or who have been permanently excluded from their mainstream school.
The centre’s vision is to inspire and enable all students to achieve their full potential.
At KS3 the focus of centre work is to re-engage the students with their learning and reintegrate them into a mainstream school or appropriate setting. Our outreach team works closely with all primary and secondary schools in supporting students who are experiencing emotional, social, behaviour challenges that are impacting on their school success.
At KS4 students are provided with an alternative provision where it is acknowledged that a mainstream setting is not meeting their needs. Students are offered a wide variety of opportunities for accreditation, including GCSE courses (Pearsons, AQA, WJEC) and several Vocational courses (City and Guilds, BTEC, etc.)
The North Herts Education Support Centre’s success is built upon strong partnerships with schools and other services and most importantly, with young people and their parents and carers.
How to Apply
If you are passionate about our values and dedicated to making a meaningful impact on education, we invite you to apply. Please complete the application form on My New Term and tell us about how you connect with our values of "respect, teamwork, high aspirations, tolerance, accountability and challenge" and what you feel you can contribute to our team and our goal to deliver world class education.
The North Herts Education Support Centre is an equal opportunities employer. The centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers, online checks and the Disclosure Barring Service.
We reserve the right to close this advert and interview and appoint earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a good response to the advert, so early applications are advised.
Diversity: The North Herts Education Support Centre is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We want to attract and retain the very best staff in all areas of the Centre, ensuring our staff body reflects the diversity of our students and local community.
PLEASE COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORM VIA MYNEWTERM
Closing date: 8am, Friday 9th July 2025
Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by: 11th July 2025
Interviews will take place 18th July 2025
’Short Listed candidates are subject to an online search’
Start date: 3rd September 2025
We welcome visits to our Centre from potential applicants. Apply now and experience the difference in a rewarding and meaningful career in education.
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