Catering Assistant - Part Time Heanor, England
Job description
Post Title: Kitchen/Catering Assistant
Location: Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Salary/Pay Range: NJC02, Actual salary £14,170
Hours of work: Part-time, term-time, 30 hours per week, 7.45am to 2.15pm, Monday to Friday (With a 30-minute unpaid break)
Reporting to: Catering Manager
We are seeking to employ an enthusiastic catering/kitchen assistant to work within a busy secondary school environment. This is to carry out general kitchen duties, food preparation and service for a number of meals per day, ensuring correct portion control, together with washing up duties and cleaning of equipment and furniture.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
HGSA is a ‘good’ secondary school and sixth form which has shown significantly “improved performance to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding”. (Ofsted, May 2022).
Over the past 5 years, we have developed a fantastic culture amongst the students which is rooted in strong discipline and has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. “Leaders and staff are determined to enhance the lives and life chances of all pupils in this school.” (Ofsted, May 2022). The staff buy into the hashtag #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.
We believe that through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation.
We deliver a challenging yet inspiring curriculum and an unrivalled level of academic and pastoral support. We believe that what we offer students will support them to achieve success in the classroom and beyond; academically, personally and socially. “Pupils’ behaviour is very good. Lessons are calm and pupils work with focus”, (Ofsted, May 2022). We aim to instil students with a love of learning as well as helping them to become responsible, independent members of the community.
We believe that all staff are role models to our students and as such should continue to grow professionally. As such, our bespoke and strategic CPD model is extensive and supplemented by engagement with the Spencer Alliance for Leadership & Teaching but also through fully funded membership to the Chartered College of Teaching.
As part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we work alongside other schools in ensuring we deliver the very best education possible.
Spencer Academies Trust
The Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust’s focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.
Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe: All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership. We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
For any potential candidates that wish to have an informal discussion, please contact Julie Harrison, HR,
by email: [email protected], 01773 716396.
How to apply – please complete your candidate profile via our new Every portal. If you are accessing the portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your information before tagging your profile to this vacancy. There is a video to help https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656
In line with safer recruitment policies, references will be called for prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: 28 April 2023
Interviews will take place: Week commencing 1 May 2023
Our application deadline may end earlier where we have received a high and early positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as early as possible.
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training. Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
Job Description – Catering Assistant
Purpose of Role
To work in the Catering and food service areas under the control of The Spencer Academies Trust showing a welcoming, efficient and professional manner towards customers; employees and students.
Working with the Academy Catering Manager in the preparation, presentation, service and cleaning of the unit to the Trust standard and satisfaction.
Nature and Scope
Working as part of this important team you will be required to carry out the following duties. The nature of the Academy Year requires some of these tasks to be done regularly whilst others will be on an annual cycle. Where appropriate the post holder will be expected to use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages. The post holder will be required to work at the different catering locations across the Academy and may, in agreement with the Trust Catering Manager, work at the different locations across the Trust. Specific responsibilities include:
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Ensuring that Trust and Statutory regulations, regarding hygiene, safety and cleanliness, are complied with in all tasks at all times.
2. To comply with all the appropriate legal requirements in the kitchen.
3. To assist, as directed, with all aspects of preparation, production and presentation of food.
4. Assisting with serving at Service Time.
5. To undertake all aspects in cleaning equipment - walls (up to 6 ft), floors, fixtures and fittings, toilets, pots, pans, cutlery, crockery, glassware etc. To be completed daily to the Trust standard according to the cleaning rota or as directed.
6. Comply with the rotas set by the Catering Manager and rotate jobs on a termly basis.
7. To assist in loading service counters, as directed, and to ensure sufficient supplies.
8. To ensure a high standard of personal and general cleanliness and hygiene to comply with Trust and statutory regulations.
9. To assist with vending filling, cleaning & emptying cash boxes.
10. To ensure tables are left clean (tables are at child level)
11. To operate cashless catering systems.
12. To maintain catering records to the Trust standards.
13. Working as a team and to ensure a responsible attitude towards other employees.
14. To record food temperatures as per Trust standards
15. To work as directed by the Catering Manager and Kitchen Supervisor.
16. To transport food or goods to any building on site.
17. To assist at functions some of which may occasionally occur outside normal working hours.
18. To work in other Trust academies if needed
19. To report and where possible act for any customer complaints or compliments.
20. To report immediately any incidents of - accident, fire, theft, loss, damage, unfit food or other irregularities.
21. To attend meetings and training courses as may be necessary from time to time.
22. To attend to any other reasonable requests by management.
General
23. Work in a professional manner and with integrity and maintain confidentiality of records and information.
24. Maintain up to date knowledge in line with national changes and legislation as appropriate to the role. 25. Be aware of and comply with all Trust policies including in particular Health and Safety and Safeguarding.
26. Participate in the Appraisal process and undertake professional development as required.
27. Adhere to all internal and external deadlines.
28. Contribute to the overall aims and ethos of the Spencer Academies Trust and establish constructive relationships with nominated Academies and other agencies as appropriate to the role.
These above-mentioned duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive, the post- holder may be required to carry out other duties as required by the Trust.
The Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
Additional Information
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications and experience
Valid Food Hygiene qualification preferred but not essential
Experience of working in a busy kitchen environment
Previous experience in an educational environment
Ability to follow Codes of Practice. (Please refer to the Health & Safety and Hygiene Practices)
Ability to use general catering equipment safely and correctly
Ability to deliver high standards of customer service
Knowledge and skills
Ability to work collaboratively with others
Ability to work within systems and specified timelines
Knowledge of current food legislation in regards to food hygiene and health and safety in the workplace
Able to prepare, cook and present food to meet quality, cost and food and health and safety standards
Experience of preparing, cooking and serving of food within a large catering operation. (e.g. school, factory or large restaurant)
Ability to plan and organise own workload within the kitchen and provide support to the team as required
Personal qualities
Able to follow direction and work in collaboration with the catering team
Able to work flexibly, adopt a hands-on approach and respond to unplanned situations
Commitment to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
Recognition of the importance of personal responsibility for health and safety
Commitment to the Trust’s ethos, aims and whole community
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week
Salary: From £14,170.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Day range:
- Monday to Friday
Physical setting:
- Restaurant
- School
Shift:
- Day shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Heanor: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Catering: 1 year (preferred)
- Hospitality: 1 year (preferred)
- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Bartending: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 28/04/2023
Reference ID: Catering Assistant - Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
