Job Introduction
Kitchen Assistant
Band 1, Point 2
22.5 hours a week, term time only + 1 week, permanent.
FTE salary £24,407
Actual Salary £13,215
Solent Academies Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, patient and cheerful individual to join our amazing kitchen team.
Dove House is a popular, successful, and highly regarded school in Basingstoke, for students with moderate learning difficulties and autism, aged between 11-19. We are proud to be an ‘Outstanding’ school but retain our passion to keep moving forward.
You will support our Kitchen Cook in preparing and distributing meals to pupils of Dove House Academy, ensuring a clean and functional kitchen to prepare food daily.
At Solent Academies Trust, we are proud to be a community built on connection, respect, and belonging.
Our Relational Culture Charter guides us to work together and support each other through:
- Valuing Difference
- Effective Communication
- High Challenge & High Support to Empower
- Respect for All
- Solution-Focused Approaches
We believe that when relationships thrive, people thrive – and so do the children and young people we serve.
By joining Dove House Academy, we offer you:
- Excellent staff induction with a commitment to high quality professional development aligned in relational leadership and HR excellence
- A culture rooted in relational practice, belonging, and wellbeing
- A workplace where your values, voice, and contribution truly matter
- Local Government Pension Scheme with the option of a 50/50 contribution to build over time
- Competitive employer pension contribution
- Increase in paid weeks after 5 years of service from 46.3 weeks to 47.1 weeks
- Confidential Counselling & Wellbeing Support Service
- Life Insurance - 3 times annual salary (for members of the pension scheme)
- Wellbeing Inset Day to support the wellbeing of our staff
- Free onsite parking
- CPD opportunities to support Career development
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Employee Benefits Platform
The hours for this role are Monday to Friday 9:30am – 2pm. You will work for 40 weeks of the year; however, you will be paid for 46.3 weeks. Your salary will be paid over 12 months of the year.
If you want to make a positive difference and enrich the lives of our pupils, then this could be the school for you!
Please complete a Solent Academies Trust application form. For more details, please visit our website Solent Academies Trust - Our Vacancies
For any questions or to submit your application, please email our HR team recruitment@solentacademiestrust.info
Please note we will only accept applications completed on our Solent Academies Trust form.
Closing date for applications is Tuesday 17th March 2026, 9am.
Interviews will be held Wednesday 25th March 2026.
Solent Academies Trust welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religion. Only applications submitted on the academy’s application form will be accepted Solent Academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
