Head Cook
Astrea Academy Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 9EW4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,269.00 - £29,093.00 Annually (FTE) £23,740 - £25,328 Annually (Actual)
Head Cook job summary
Astrea Academy Dearne have an exciting opportunity for a Head Cook to join their team on a term time basis.
As an essential member of the catering team, you will thrive in a busy environment, be adaptable and flexible and will support colleagues to maintain high professional standards.
As Head Cook, you will:
- Work as part of a team preparing and serving fresh, interesting and nutritious school meals within budget
- Work in accordance with the school food standards, allowing for allergen issues, ensuring full adherence to recipes, food presentation standards and portion control
- Ensure that work is carried out hygienically, safely and tidily at all times within the prevailing legislative framework
- Lead and organise the kitchen in the absence of the Catering Manager.
We are looking for:
- Relevant experience in a similar role
- Excellent organisational skills
- The ability to work to tight deadlines, whilst paying close attention to detail
- Relevant Food Safety and Hygiene certificates
- Evidence of recent in-service training and professional development.
Interested in applying?
Please take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more before applying.
We actively welcome visits and discussions about the role - please contact Hannah Peace on 01709892211.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early - please apply now to avoid disappointment.
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Astrea Academy Dearne
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1114 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Astrea Academy Dearne website (opens in new tab)
Do you want to be part of a team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students and rapidly accelerate their progress?
Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced teacher or ECT.
Astrea Academy Dearne is an 11-16 secondary academy situated in Barnsley, with around 1150 students. We are within commutable distance from Wakefield, Leeds, Doncaster and Sheffield and are a proud member of the Astrea Academy Trust family of schools. We have the highest aspiration for our students to achieve their very best and grow both as individuals and as members of their community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work.
We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything
We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.
We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.
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