Bright Little Stars Nursery
Kitchen Assistant – Watford Nursery – £12.83/hr, Part Time, School-Friendly Hours!
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
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
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
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.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Ready to join us?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you – click Apply to get started!
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location