Head Cook

Waverley Academy, Doncaster, DN4 0UB

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2025

• Closing date

  27 January 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 January 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: £25,183.00 - £26,835.00 Annually (FTE) Part-time, term time role - actual salary £17,697 - £18,85 per annum

Head Cook job summary

Waverley Academy 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.

About Us:

At Waverley Academy, children are at the centre of everything we do. We teach academic knowledge and skills as well as developing the whole child, in order to prepare pupils for their next stage of education and to enable them to lead active and happy lives. The knowledge and skills we teach through an enjoyable and engaging curriculum, ensure pupils leave Waverley fully prepared for later life, with memories they will never forget!

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.

What we offer:

• A dedicated and supportive team with a shared mission to improve the catering offer within education
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Continued professional development and training opportunities
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

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.

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.

The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Waverley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 200 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Waverley Academy website (opens in new tab)
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At Waverley Primary Academy, children are at the centre of everything we do. We teach academic knowledge and skills as well as developing the whole child, in order to prepare pupils for their next stage of education and to enable them to lead active and happy lives. Our values of Tenacity, Empathy, Curiosity, Scholarship and Happiness run through all parts of school life and create a calm, happy and hardworking atmosphere with a strong commitment to all pupils achieving their full potential, regardless of their starting points.

Pupils start their learning journey with us in Foundation Stage where our provision, both indoors and outdoors, allows them to develop their investigative skills, test their ideas and to learn the basics of number and language. Our curriculum then develops these skills further, as pupils grow through school. The knowledge and skills we teach through an enjoyable and engaging curriculum, ensure pupils leave Waverley fully prepared for later life, with memories they will never forget!

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