Assistant Chef
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2026
Closing date
12 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Refer to job description.
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £13.74 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
About The Role:
Avanti Grange Secondary School is seeking an Assistant Chef to support the smooth and efficient running of our busy school kitchen. Working closely with the Chef Manager and wider catering team, you will play an important role in preparing and serving nutritious, high-quality vegetarian meals for our students and staff.
You will contribute to the day-to-day operation of the kitchen, ensuring food is prepared and presented to a consistently high standard and that all food safety and hygiene requirements are followed.
We are looking for someone who is organised, reliable and takes pride in delivering an excellent catering service to our school community. You will be a valued member of the kitchen team, supporting with food preparation, cooking, cleaning, stock management and general kitchen duties.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working as part of a team and is committed to maintaining high standards of quality, cleanliness and service.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Support the Chef Manager with the preparation and service of nutritious, high-quality vegetarian meals and refreshments for students, staff and hospitality requests.
- Prepare, cook, assemble and plate food to the required quality, hygiene and food safety standards, following instructions from senior chefs and established procedures.
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across the kitchen, including safe waste disposal, recycling and cleaning of equipment, work areas and facilities.
- Assist with stock management, food storage and the smooth day-to-day running of the kitchen, ensuring supplies are organised and catering services are delivered promptly and consistently.
- Work positively as part of the wider catering team, following Health and Safety, COSHH, HACCP, risk assessment and temperature-control procedures, and promptly reporting any defects, risks or near misses.
What are we looking for?
- Understanding of food hygiene and kitchen health and safety
- Good Organisational Skills
- The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
- Ability to follow strict instructions in a systematic and consistent manner
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
- You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- Organisation type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 660 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Grange Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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