Kitchen Assistant – Join Our Watford Nursery Family! (September Start)
Bright Little Stars – Watford | Part Time, 25 hrs/week, 9am–2pm, Mon–Fri, all year round | £12.83 per hour / £17,512 per annum (inc. 5% performance bonus)
Love good food and a happy team? Join our Watford kitchen!
We’re recruiting a Kitchen Assistant for our Watford nursery, with a September start. Join our BLS family and enjoy a genuinely brilliant benefits package (including regular salary reviews!) plus a wellness programme with incredible perks. We want the whole team to enjoy their time at work and be happy in their personal lives too.
How we’re usually taught to measure success is “salary and job title”. The BLS way? Salary and job title plus mental health, physical health, free time and loving what you do. It’s an approach our team reflects in our Indeed and Glassdoor reviews, and it’s part of why we’re one of the area’s leading nurseries.
The role at a glance
- Role: Kitchen Assistant (supporting our full-time Nursery Chef)
- Pay: £12.83 per hour / £17,512 per annum (including 5% performance bonus)
- Hours: Part Time, 25 hours per week, set shifts 9am–2pm, Monday to Friday, all year round
- Location: Bright Little Stars, Watford
- Start: September
About the role
This role involves supporting our full-time Nursery Chef to prepare and cook meals for our children, ensuring a high standard of catering in line with our policies, procedures and legislative guidelines, while maintaining our excellent 5-Star Food Hygiene rating.
What we’re looking for
- Understanding of the importance of health and hygiene.
- Experience in a kitchen environment (nursery or school settings desirable).
- Understanding of catering for special diets, allergies and intolerances.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Good timekeeping and organisational skills.
- An enthusiastic, flexible, can-do attitude.
- A clear DBS.
Bright Little Stars benefits
- Excellent rates of pay with annual review.
- Up to 35 days annual leave (20 days holiday + up to 3 days paid Christmas closure + 8 bank holidays + 1 pro-rata birthday day + 1 bonus day).
- Up to 5 days sick pay (depending on length of service) starting from Year 1.
- Support for higher-level qualifications with paid study days.
- Internal promotion opportunities.
- Inset days – 2 training days plus 1 planning day, with additional internal and external training throughout the year.
- Free uniform.
- Access to the complimentary BLS Wellbeing programme, including weekly PT sessions, community benefits, a cycle-to-work scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Free wholesome, hot lunches in the staff room.
- Complimentary team-building activities and annual group Christmas Ball.
- Employee of the Month prize.
- Increasing staff childcare discount and salary sacrifice for parental staff.
Ready to join us?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you – click Apply to get started!
