Horkesley Park, Park Road, Nayland, Colchester, Essex CO6 4JR
Littlegarth School is an IAPS Co-educational Day School for boys and girlssituated in beautiful surroundings overlooking the Stour Valley providing education for 320 pupils aged between 2½ and 11 years.
Catering Assistant - Job Description
Reports to
Bursar (or in her absence, the Head).
On a day to day basis, the Catering Assistant Reports to the Catering Manager.
General
The post holder will work in a team to help prepare and serve healthy and nutritious lunches for children and staff. The post holder will also assist in preparing and serving food for match teas, special occasions, such as parent evenings, Governors’ meetings and other School functions.
Responsible for
- Assisting in preparing, serving and clearing up lunch for children and staff during term time
- Assisting in preparing, serving and clearing up for a variety of School functions.
- Ensuring that work is carried out undercurrent health and safety standards
- Prepare all food items within agreed cooking methods and portion controls.
- Implement and maintain the School’s food standards, and work with the Catering Manager to improve where possible
- Ensure the food safety of pupils and staff with parents with emphasis given to allergens and special diets.
The postholder will have experience in working in a kitchen and the ability to work part of a team which produces excellent quality dishes for our children, including those withspecial dietary requirements. Experience of working in a school environment would be helpful.
The postholder must have an understanding of current “Healthy Eating” guidance. The ethos of the School's catering is to prepare dishes of fresh food from locallysourced produce where possible. We provide a two course lunch every day with a vegetarian option and a daily salad bar. All food is cooked from fresh ingredients in the School kitchen.
Responsibilities
The postholder will be responsible for the following:
- Setting up the dining room for both school lunch sittings
- Helping in the food preparation for the daily lunches, match teas, meetings and other functions, as required
- Clearing away and washing up after lunch and other functions
- Assisting in the clearing and washing of the kitchen and dining room, including floors
- Ensuring the guidance for those with special diets is adhered to
- Ensuring all food is garnished and attractively presented
- Helping to promote healthy eating in the School.
- Assisting in the preparation of a two-course lunch with vegetarian option each day
- Assisting in preparing lunches for children and staff with special dietary requirements
- Serving food to children and staff in an attractive manner, ensuring portion controls are maintainedand promote a warm and friendly atmosphere.
- Preparing and serving match teas, as required
- Ensuring that the kitchen is thoroughly cleanedand promote a warm, friendly atmosphere.
- Adhering to responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and being aware of the main causes of accidents and risks to health and safety in a catering environment
- Maintaining all kitchen and store areas in a safe and hygienic state;
- Ensuring that full uniform and personal protective equipment is worn as appropriate
- Ensuring the dining room is suitably cleaned and prepared before lunch and cleaned afterwards for School activities
- Ensuring all food equipment is clean and in good condition, and reporting any defects immediately
- Using correct cleaning materials and abiding by the COSHH regulations
- Ensuring that knives and other lockable items are secured at the end of each day
- Extra time for after-school functions and events at the School
- End of term cleaning
The successful candidate is likely to fit the following profile:
- An enthusiastic, reliable and self motivated individual
- Be professional, personable, energetic, intuitive and efficient
- Has the ability towork under pressure and use own initiative
- Must be able to work as part of a time and be respectful to colleagues and staff.
Training will be given although applicants should ideally hold a Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2.
Salary
The salary for the post is £8.63 per hour. Salaries are reviewed each year to ensure that they remain competitive.
Hours and Holidays
The appointment is for 24 hours per week. Normal hours of work arefor fourdays a weekfrom 9a.m. to 3p.m. during normal School Term, with additional hours as required. The post holder will be entitled to 20 days paid holiday plus statutory bank holidays calculated as 12.07 per cent of hours worked during the holiday year.
Benefits
The Applicant is entitled to join the School'squalifying pension schemein accordance with Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2008.
Probation
The appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of a three month probationary period.
APPLICATION FORM
Applications will only be accepted from candidates completing an Application Form in full (available on the School website
CVs may be submitted but will not be accepted in substitution for completed Application Forms in the absence of good reason.
Candidates should be aware that all posts in the School involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding children, although the extent of that responsibility will vary according to the nature of the post.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as “spent” must be declared.
You should be aware that provision of false information is an offence and could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal if the applicant has been selected, and possible referral to the police and/or DfES Children’s Safeguarding Operation Unit
References
We will seek references on shortlisted candidates and may approach previous employers whether or not named as a referee for information at any stage following receipt of the application form.
Employment is subject to satisfactory references from suitable referees and references will be verified by telephone call.
If you are currently working with children, on either a paid or voluntary basis, your current employer (who must be listed as one of your referees) will be asked about disciplinary offences relating to children or young persons (whether the disciplinary sanction is current or time expired), and whether you have been the subject of any child protection allegations or concerns and if so the outcome of any enquiry or disciplinary procedure. If you are not currently working with children but have done so in the past, the previous employer will be asked about those issues (and should be listed as a referee). Where neither your current nor previous employment has involved working with children your current employer will still be asked about your suitability to work with children, although it may where appropriate answer if your duties have not brought you into contact with children or young persons.
In the case of applicants who have been employed but who are not now employed, one referee must be the most recent employer (who should be listed as one of your referees).
Interview
Interviews will be held during w/c 29 May 2017.
All candidates invited to interview must bring documents confirming any educational and professional qualifications that are necessary or relevant for the post (e.g. the original or certified copies of certificates, diplomas, etc.). Where originals or certified copies are not available for the successful candidate, written confirmation of the relevant qualifications must be obtained from the awarding bodies.
All candidates invited to interview must also bring with them:
- Two of the following documents:
-Full birth certificate
-Current driving licence
- A utility bill or bank statement that is under three months old which shows the candidate’s current name and address
- Where appropriate, any document evidencing a change of name.
Conditional Offer of Appointment: Pre-appointment Checks
Any offer to a successful candidate will be conditional upon:
- Receipt of at least two satisfactory references (if these have not already been received)
- Verification of identity and qualifications
- A satisfactory DBS Certificate
- Verification of professional status (where required)
- Where the successful candidate has worked or been resident overseas in the previous five years, such checks and confirmations as the school may require in accordance with statutory guidance
- Verification of medical fitness
The Bursar,
LittlegarthSchool
Horesley Park
Nayland
Colchester
Essex
CO6 4JR
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Catering Assistant Job Description
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