Assistant Cook
Beaver Road Primary School, Manchester, M20 6SX18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Term-Time only (38 weeks) Monday to Friday, 8am to 2pm 30 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Actual Salary £17,260 FTE £24,207
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
Uniform: Provided by School
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Assistant Cook to work in our very busy school kitchen. This person will be able to work as part of a team within the school and help provide high quality fresh and nutritious meals to the pupils and staff.
The post will be working at Beaver Road Primary School across both the First School (M206SX) & Junior School (M20 2RN) sites.
The Successful Candidate will:
- Work well in a team
- Engage positively with staff and pupils
- Have good communication skills
- Show commitment to professional development
- Comply with company polices and regulations in respect of health and safety to ensure the highest standards of kitchen practice and hygiene
- Adapt to change and take on different tasks as and when required
- Have the ability to communicate well with young children
Main duties:
- Working closely with the Head Cook to ensure the children receive a nutritionally balanced meal every day
- Deputising for the Head Cook in periods of absence.
- Serving meals
- General kitchen and dining room duties
- Undertake moderate lifting duties i.e. food delivery’s/dining room furniture
- Assist in the preparation of tasty meals
- Washing up and cleaning to a high standard
Professional Conduct and Development:
- Participate in the school's appraisal and professional development programs.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, pupils, and other relevant staff.
- Uphold the school's ethos, policies, and practices.
- Maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality.
What the school offers its staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Beaver Road Primary School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. The post holder will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Check with appropriate barred list checks, or the equivalent, and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
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About Beaver Road Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 1019 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Beaver Road Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@brps.net
- Phone number
- 0161 445 9337
Beaver Road is a large, multi-cultural primary school situated in the heart of Didsbury Village. In September 2018, we began our expansion from three forms of entry to five forms of entry across two school sites. The school currently has over 1000 children from 3 to 11 years of age. This will expand further over the next 2 years to 1150 children. Children from Nursery to Year 3 are based at Beaver Road First School site (M20 6SX), while children in Year 4 to Year 6 are based at our new purpose built Junior School site on Wilmslow Road (M20 2RN).
Ofsted graded the School ‘outstanding’ in October 2011 and we continue to maintain these high standards for our children and families. Beaver Road is part of the M20 Learning Trust and Liz Hardy is the Executive Headteacher (CEO) of both the Trust and School. Together with an exceptional team of talented and inspiring staff, we are committed to excellence, collaboration and respect for the whole school community.
Arranging a visit to Beaver Road Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@brps.net.
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