Catering Assistant in Garforth

As a Catering Assistant, you will be responsible for preparing and serving food to staff and pupils/students. Please see the attached job description on our website for the essential criteria and more information on the role. If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience required for this position, then we would very much like to hear from you. Our staff are talented, enthusiastic and strive to deliver innovative learning experiences to our young people. They also enrich, guide and support our students to ensure they are fully prepared and equipped to enter the competitive world of work or further studies. We pride ourselves on providing our students with the knowledge, skills and resilience to achieve the highest possible standards academically, socially and personally. We have a staff rewards budget that encourages staff to socialise both as subject teams and as a whole staff, as well as access to a staff benefits scheme. At Garforth, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged and supported to achieve their very best. In 2026, our outcomes at both KS4 and KS5 were superb and again well above national expectations in both attainment and progress. At KS5 our Grade A

• -A was 21% and our A-C was 73% with a positive value added score. At KS4, 79.3% of our students achieved a Grade 4+ in English and Maths with 62.1% achieving a Grade 5+.

We also pride ourselves on the huge variety of extra-curricular activities available to our students from after school clubs in Music, Sport, Art, F1 STEM, Gardening, Cooking to name just a few to day trips, to sports/musical events, whole school productions, Duke of Edinburgh weekends to week long residentials abroad. During the last 18 months we have had a number of residentials to Paris, Battlefields, Iceland and the Azores. In addition, we have had a sixth form Ski trip to America, a Y9 ski trip to Europe and a Geography trip to South Africa with even more planned this academic year. Our trips even include a full year group team building/resilience residential. We are excited this year to be further developing our Sporting Pathways, a trust-wide strategy focused on creating more opportunities for pupils across our academies to enjoy, learn, compete, represent and excel through sport. We are immensely proud that in November 2024 the Academy was graded Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted.

• The school has high aspirations for students and Teachers are experts in their subjects.
• Students consistently meet the school's high expectations of their conduct, and the school's strong pastoral support helps students if they do struggle to meet these expectations.
• Students, including disadvantaged students achieve extremely well across the breadth of the subjects that they study. This is reflected in consistently high outcomes in exams.
• Staff are well supported by leaders at all levels. The school provides them with high quality training. This includes detailed information on how to support students with SEND in lessons.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.

Therefore, we will consider job applicants who have a criminal record based on their skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and, where needed, qualifications and training. However, our approach depends on the job, and whether it is covered by, or exempt from, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.

Garforth Academy are looking to appoint a Catering Assistant to join our academy in November 2026 on a part time, permanent basis. Do you want to work for a Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England? If so, this could be the role for you.

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