Kitchen Assistant

Horizon Teachers is looking for a Kitchen Assistant to join a welcoming school in Tower Hamlets. The role involves supporting kitchen staff and ensuring cleanliness, organisation, and food safety within the kitchen environment.Key Responsibilities

• Assist with food prep, including making sandwiches, cooking vegetables, and replenishing chiller cabinets.
• Serve food, maintain food presentation, and ensure portion control.
• Assist customers politely and be aware of menu items and pricing.

Deliveries & Stock

• Help receive, store, and label food deliveries, ensuring proper stock rotation.
• Assist with stock taking and alert managers about shortages or spoiled produce.

Hygiene & Cleaning

• Wash and clean during and after food preparation and service.
• Maintain hygiene standards, check food temperatures, and clean equipment/surfaces regularly.

Health & Safety

• Follow school health and safety policies, wear appropriate uniform, and operate machinery after training.

Why Horizon Teachers?

• We are a friendly team that work hard to place you in the best suited role and many of the team are ex teachers themselves
• We offer our staff the highest rates!
• You will be paid the permanent equivalent for the job after 12 weeks, in many cases from day one!
• We offer a FREE safeguarding training online course to support you in your work in an educational setting
• Horizon Teachers is committed to ensuring our staff are happy in their roles, please look at our 4.8 rated google reviews

Contact us today for a confidential chat about your next role!Horizon Teachers is a specialist Education Recruitment Consultancy that helps Teachers and Support Staff find long term, permanent and interim employment in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools throughout London, the South East, the Midlands and the North of England. As part of the registration process you will be required to have a DBS Check carried out and all original relevant qualifications will need to be sighted and copied before any work placement. For all teaching roles you will need to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent. Horizon Teachers. Enhancing Children's Education.