This school is part of a group of over 15 SEN schools/colleges and supported living across the UK. They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.
Call/email Alisdair at School Staffing to get an application form to complete and send back and also a full job description with details of this SEN Schools' Group
School Cook - Location: Midge Hall, near Leyland, Lancashire
Salary: £13.14 - £14.72 p/hr depending on experience £25,286 - £28,327
Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time Only + 3 weeks
This School is an independent day school in Lancashire providing specialist education for young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties (SEMH) and Autistic Spectrum Condition.
Your Skills & Experience
- Relevant knowledge of regulations and standards for the catering environment.
- Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
- Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
- Experience working with special diets and allergens
- Highly organised
- A passion for creating healthy home cooked foods with experience of cooking with a wide range of ingredients.
The Role:
The role of Cook is to provide good quality food, for a range of dietary needs, using fresh ingredients. The role will deliver an effective catering service with a dynamic approach to continually strive to improve the catering with new initiatives and menu ideas and distilling an enthusiasm for cooking and eating well in others.
Key Duties:
- Provide a balanced menu and diet to a high standard within budget.
- Ensure current legislation/regulations are fully met, and that records are kept up to date and are available for inspection.
- Undertake full range of management tasks for catering team, including supervisions, supporting training needs
- Create menus that are appealing and nutritionally balanced
- Prepare, cook and present home cooked food using fresh ingredients where possible ensuring appropriate portion control
- Take responsibility and ensure the smooth running of the kitchen
- Liaise with suppliers, building good relationships.
- Monitoring stock and quality control, ensuring the college remains within budget allocation.
- Undertake menu planning, to provide nutritionally balanced food, within budget.
- Ensure compliance with all regulations relating to food preparation, cooking and storage.
- Maintain the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness.
- Ordering of supplies ensuring best value
Benefits:
- Life assurance
- Competitive pension
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
- Refer a friend for £1,000. We'll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search**.**
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.