Chef Tutor
Aurora Foxes, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5TY27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 October 2025
Closing date
14 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,423.76 - £30,659.02
Chef Tutor job summary
Overview and Responsibilities
Chef Tutor – Aurora Foxes
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £28,423.76 - £30,659.02 (FTE £30,722 - £33,138) Depending on experience and qualifications
Hours: 40 hours per week, Term time only
Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.
We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
The main purpose of the role:
As one of our Chef Tutors your role is to plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate inspiring, engaging and individualised Food Preparation sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student.
Your role is to help achieve our mission which is to equip young adults with learning disabilities to find sustainable employment in the hospitality sector and to live independently.
Always promote a professional attitude and approach with students and learner support practitioners, to support students to develop the skills required to be 'work ready, life ready.
Key duties:
Effectively and professionally plan, prepare and resource highly individualised sessions of the highest quality, including those sessions where you may be absent, according to the published scheme of work.
Deliver professional, inspiring, and engaging sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student, and in which all students are motivated and engaged throughout. We expect every tutor to be fully always engaged in the session without exception.
Plan and prepare robust and professional assessments and ensure that all tracking (including baselining, target setting and review) and reports associated with these are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner, and that any records are kept up to date.
All tutors must be familiar with, and actively use the principles of RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement).
Work professionally and collaboratively with all colleagues and teams across the Academy, including the Therapy team and House Managers, to analyse student performance and ensure that all students make progress commensurate with their ability.
Where underachievement is identified appropriate strategies should be implemented immediately and
Where overachievement is identified, targets should be reviewed, and further challenges agreed within teams and set.
Ensure that all students receive professional, timely and effective feedback, with appropriate strategies (next steps) to improve their performance, and that such discussions are evidenced through effective and professional record keeping (Evaluations, Tutorials, Reviews).
Prepare, direct and lead Learning Support Practitioners (LSP) within your session, and to actively always promote a professional attitude and approach with the LSP. Ensure that LSPs (Learner Support Practitioner) contribute throughout the session.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
Level 2 in English & Maths
City and Guilds (Or other recognised awarding body) Hospitality and Catering Level 2 or equivalent
Level 3 desirable or willing to work towards
Level 4 certificate in Education (desirable or willing to work towards)
Experience of working in a hospitality catering setting.
Experience in vocational education (desirable).
Experience of working in a team setting.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
Comprehensive training and ongoing support.
Funded qualifications.
10% discount on accommodation, hot drinks, and food at Foxes Hotel.
Life assurance and pension scheme.
Health cashback plan.
24-hour online GP access for employees and their families.
Car lease scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
Perkbox benefits platform.
Free parking during shifts.
Meals provided while on shift.
If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
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 Aurora Foxes
- School type
- Other type, ages 16 to 25
- School size
- Up to 85 pupils
- Age range
- 16 to 25
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aurora Foxes website
School location
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