- Part time
- Based in Yeovil
- Term time only
- Monday to Friday 12pm - 2pm
Job purpose:
To ensure the security, safety and wellbeing, and care of the pupils of the school and to promote their social, emotional and physical development during the lunch time period.
Main duties and Responsibilities:
- Preparation of the dining area for service, which may include moving and/or setting up furniture and trolleys, cleaning putting away after service
- Preparation the service area, hot cupboards and other equipment as instructed.
- Wash dishes, cutlery, tumblers, jugs, serving utensils, containers, tables and all other catering equipment in the catering environment.
- Clean catering areas to regulated standards as directed.
- To assist in the serving of meals in line with agreed procedures.
- To be qualified in the Level 2 Award in Food Safety (Desirable but not essential)
- To encourage social skills and good table manners, ensuring safety with knives and forks.
- To clean up spillages of food and to organise clearing cutlery and crockery off tables.
- To carry out the washing up of food utensils and crockery etc. and to store items in a clean and efficient manner.
- To understand, and ensure the implementation of statutory Health and Safety policies, Environmental Health requirements and emergency and fire procedures.
- To ensure the safety and wellbeing of children, providing emotional support where necessary.
- Promoting and ensuring good behaviour and calm atmosphere.
- Reporting any misbehaviour that may occur in accordance with the school's Behaviour Policy.
- Addressing issues calmly and politely and in doing so being a role model to the children.
- Report as appropriate any incidents to the senior members of staff.
Support for the School
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentially and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Vigilant safeguarding of all pupils and staff across the school, observing, monitoring and reporting all concerns to the relevant designated safeguarding leads.
- Be aware of and support differences ensuring all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
- Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
- Attend relevant meetings as required
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
- To participate actively in supporting the principles and practice of equality of opportunity as laid down in the school's policy.
- To comply with all Health and Safety legislation and school policy as appropriate (NB the exact responsibilities will depend on the post)
- As a term of employment to carry out any other reasonable duties and/or times of work as may be reasonably required of you in accordance with the grade and general level of responsibility within the organisation.
Working with Long Term Teachers:
We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.
LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.
Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.
We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.