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  • Job start date

    6 January 2025

  • Closing date

    13 December 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    29 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Catering, cleaning and site management

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: Part time: 17.50 hours per week/Permanent

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

£9580 per annum

Pay scale

Grade 16. Pt. 2

What skills and experience we're looking for

We have a vacancy for a Catering Assistant to join our excellent catering Team, working from 10.45AM to 2.15PM term time plus INSET days (39 weeks). This is a varied and interesting position that offers the opportunity to assist in the preparation of hot and cold meals for students and staff and our feeder primary schools, serve in the Servery at break and lunch times and help keep the kitchen clean and tidy and hygienic following the guidance of the Food Standards Agency.

We are looking for outstanding individuals who will relish the opportunity to:

  • Work with a friendly team in a busy and fast paced catering environment
  • Assist with the preparation of meal ingredients, which includes washing, cleaning, peeling, cutting, and chopping fruit, vegetables, poultry, and meat to a high standard following Food Standards Agency guidance and practices
  • Assist in the servery, taking money and ipay transactions for staff and students
  • Keep up to date with current relevant legal requirements and food safety regulations

You are likely to be someone who:

  • Is reliable and self-motivated with a responsive and reflective approach to work
  • Has previous experience in catering and industrial kitchen environments (or relative experience)
  • Has Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualification (or be willing to train)
  • Has COSHH and Manual Handling qualifications (or be willing to train)
  • Understands the working of The Children’s Food Trust and promotes healthy eating options for children
  • Understands food allergens and safe food handling practices
  • Has some flexibility to cover staff absences and occasionally work additional hours where required
  • Can offer excellent communication and interpersonal skills, working within a busy team

What the school offers its staff

Wadham School can offer you:

  • An additional opportunity to increase hours and join the Cleaning Team until 5.30PM daily.
  • An opportunity to work in a Level 5 Hygiene rated establishment with a highly motivated team
  • Part time hours that suit a busy family life, working term time only (plus INSET days)
  • Onsite parking (on a first come – first served basis)
  • Training and CPD in Catering, Health & Safety and Safeguarding, with options for other courses through TES online training
  • Voluntary pension scheme through Somerset Council
  • Fulfilment, in knowing that you matter, and the work you do makes a positive difference to the lives you touch

Further details about the role

For further information and a Somerset County application form please visit our website: www.wadhamschool.co.uk Please Note: we do not accept applications by CV and all application forms must be completed in full, giving a full work history and two referees, one being your current/ previous employer.

Visits to the school or an informal talk are warmly encouraged.

For all enquires please contact Lorrie Mahoney on LMahoney@wadhamschool.co.uk

or telephone 01460 270127 to discuss.

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.

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About Wadham School

School type
Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
805 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01460 270127

Are you looking to work in a Good school (Ofsted, June 2019) with a community working together for the best possible outcomes for young people?

Wadham School is friendly, vibrant and forward looking. It is an exciting time at Wadham School. We strive to be a school which uses an evidence based approach to teaching and an ethos and drive for the school to be much more than just learning in lessons. A varied programme of extra-curricular activities and house competitions provides an exciting opportunity for staff to be involved in the wider school community. At our core is an aim, through everything that we do, to develop a sense of hope, a hope which will encourage and support students in becoming the best that they can be.

The school serves a beautiful area of South Somerset with excellent links to the wider South West, Bristol and Bath and direct train links to London from Crewkerne itself and Taunton.
If the above gives you a picture of a community that you would be excited to be part of then the students and staff at Wadham School invite your application and would love to meet you.

Arranging a visit to Wadham School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email LMahoney@wadhamschool.co.uk.

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