Assistant Cook
Lime Academy Orton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 5SD22 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £13,462.23 - £14,581.45 Annually (Actual) NJC points 7-12, 22.5 hours a week (term time only 38 weeks)
Assistant Cook job summary
Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 9 schools over 11 locations across Luton, Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and five special schools, with 2500 pupils and over 760 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:
- Learners are safe and enjoy learning
- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued
- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood
- Employee potential is recognised and invested in
The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.
We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.
Overview of the role:
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to run the day to day operation of the kitchen to provide students, staff and visitors with a pleasant meal experience, which is value for money and that meets the Lime Trust standards.
We are looking for an individual who:
- is an effective team leader and team player
- has good knowledge of food standards regulations, including allergen management
- has a good understanding of Health & Safety, COSHH and food hygiene regulations/legislation
- has experience of planning menus, staff rotas and stock monitoring
- has experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
Job purpose :
The postholder will be part of our school support function.
Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact Gemma Fone, School Business Manager on 01733 391800 to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.
Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before appointment.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lime Academy Orton
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 153 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lime Academy Orton website
School location
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