Out of School Club Cook
Polehampton Church of England Junior School, Reading, Berkshire, RG10 9AX33 days remaining to apply
Closing date
31 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £12.85 Hourly
Out of School Club Cook job summary
Our new Out of School Club provision, Polecats OSC, is looking for a Cook to assist the team with food preparation and overall food safety. This is a term time only role working Monday-Friday 15:00-17:00 (a total of 10 hours per week). The salary for this role is Grade 3 SCP5 (Annual FTE) £24,790, actual hourly rate £12.85.
Duties will include the following:
- Day to day food preparation (both hot and cold)
- Cleaning of all food preparation areas
- Ongoing food preparation and cleaning associated paperwork and administration
- Assist with food ordering
- Assist with meal plans and long-term menu selections
- Support Allergy Management.
To be considered for this position, you will need to:
- Be adaptable to all aspects of the role
- Be efficient in completing tasks over a short, medium and long term timeframe
- Be fully committed to being part of a hard-working team
- Undertake training to ensure you are compliant with legal expectations for food preparation.
It would be an advantage if you:
- Have previous experience in the same or similar role
- Hold a recognised food hygiene qualification
As a member of The Keys Academy Trust, the successful applicants will have access to high quality professional development and career progression within The Trust.
Visits are warmly welcomed and encouraged.
Please contact the school office to make an appointment or to speak with the Operations Manager, Simon Rance, on 0118 941338.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will need to provide references prior to interview and have a full DBS check prior to starting work. We welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion. No agencies, please.
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 are not accepted.
About Polehampton Church of England Junior School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 232 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Polehampton Church of England Junior School website
We are dynamic, inspirational and over-subscribed Infant and Junior schools, ensuring the best possible learning experiences and outcomes for all our children.
Our core Christian values are at the heart of all we do and our Christian culture of compassion and consideration for each other touches every area of school life. The school community enjoys strong links with our local Church in a mutually supportive and beneficial partnership. We contribute to and are enriched through our involvement with the Church and the local community.
Our two schools work very closely together as the Polehampton Schools; two schools, one journey with a shared senior leadership team. This ensures a smooth transition and strong progress from the Foundation Stage through to the end of Year Six. Our children are well-equipped for secondary school and prepared to be compassionate, reflective and successful life-long learners in an ever-changing world.
Everyone is committed to excellence, improvement and the pursuit of high standards academically, physically, artistically, as well as spiritually, morally, socially and culturally. Our united, respectful and respected team of adults consistently applies best practice, modelling the school’s deeply embedded drivers of community, curiosity and cultural diversity.
Our amazingly supportive parental community help to enable the school to flourish and grow. We have a highly committed and proactive Governing body who work with the school team, appropriately supporting and challenging so that high standards are sustained in an encouraging and warm environment that values everyone.
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