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Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 3EF21 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
27 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 6:00am - 1:55pm, (includes a 30min unpaid break) 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- F8- F12 (Actual pro rata salary £22,306 - £23,782) (Pay award pending)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential:
- Allergy Awareness qualification
- HACCP training
- Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate
Desirable:
- COSHH qualification
- Health & Safety qualification
Experience, understanding and knowledge
Essential:
- Experience of working within a catering environment, ideally within a mass catering setting.
- At least 2 years’ experience working as a cook in a school kitchen.
- Experience of menu planning and costing.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of keeping Health & Safety records
Desirable:
- Experience in working in a secondary school
- Understanding Child protection/safeguarding
- Experience of working with a till system
What the school offers its staff
Employee Benefits
Lifestyle and wellbeing
- Salary sacrifice electric car leasing scheme
- Four electric car charging points
- Family-friendly policies
- Attractive salary and pension
- Generous annual leave entitlement/term time only working options
- Free one-to-one wellbeing support
- Onsite parking facilities and cycle storage
- Free/discounted access to the school’s onsite
- Gym (conditions apply)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Techscheme – save money on the latest tech from Apple and Currys PC World
- Blue Light Card - Discount Scheme
- Staff social events
- Onsite catering (8.00am - 1.30pm daily)
Statutory and other benefits
- The full range of statutory benefits including sick pay, maternity, parental, and adoption leave
- Enhanced Paternity Leave Policy
- We will honour your continuity of service in other state-funded schools in relation to sick pay and pension rights.
- Provision of all necessary IT equipment.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are an equal opportunities employer and value and respect diversity across our whole school community. Bournside is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1828 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- recruitment@bournside.com
- Phone number
- 01242235555
Bournside is the largest comprehensive 11-18 school in Gloucestershire. We are an established single academy trust with a good reputation (Ofsted ‘Good’ rating 2022), wide catchment, and a strong presence in the community. Our school is consistently oversubscribed with a PAN of 300, and most of our students choose to stay with us for their
post-16 study.
Bournside is a mixed, non-denominational academy school for students aged 11 to 18. It is located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It settled in its current location of Warden Hill in the early part of the 1970s and converted to academy status in 2011.
Arranging a visit to Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bournside.com.
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