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Role: School Cook
Location: Falkland House School, Perth PH2 7AR
Salary: £22,500.00 per annum
Hours: 38 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 10:00-18:00, Friday 09:00-15:00
Contract: Permanent, Term time only
UK Applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.
As part of our continued growth in service, we are looking for a School Cook to join our team.
Main Purpose
The purpose of this role is to deliver high quality food and menu service during term time to all pupils, staff, and visitors across the Falkland House School Perth.
The role seeks someone with energy and enthusiasm, as well as the requisite culinary skill and experience. We would like someone that will not only manage a kitchen, but also engage the young people with food and enterprise. The successful candidate will support small groups of young people around food preparation and ensure their voices are central to any meal planning.
Essential
- To take responsibility for the preparation, presentation and serving of all meals to an exceptional standard.
- Qualification in Food Preparation and Cooking.
- Food preparation skills.
- Ability to carry out all aspects of the role to a high standard at all times.
- Positive attitude.
- Approachable, reliable and flexible.
- A common sense approach.
- Must be able to work on own initiative, and with resilience.
- The ability to organise workload and multi-task.
- The ability to work without direct supervision.
- The ability to work as a member of a team.
- Highly motivated with a drive to introduce continuous improvement.
The Location
Falkland House School Perth provides care and education for up to 24 pupils and young people with additional support needs between the age of 12 and 18. Our statement of purpose is to give the young people the skills, confidence and resilience needed to go and meet the world.
We are part of the Options Autism and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work' for the fifth year running.
Why join Options Autism?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you'll get an exceptional reward package including:
- Life Assurance
- "Your Wellbeing Matters" – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that's right for you, including:
- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
And that's not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to PVG checks through Disclosure Scotland. We expect all our employees to share this commitment and strive to achieve the best outcome possible for everybody in our care. A full application form must be completed with all employment dates accurate and gaps in employment accounted for.
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