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School Chef/Cook

Links Hatfield Academy, Hatfield, AL10 8TJ

This job expired on 14 May 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  14 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 April 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 Annually (FTE) H4

School Chef/Cook job summary

The role will be term time only 9:00 - 14:30 approximately 25 hours a week. Start/end time and hours negotiable. We are looking for someone who has a passion for food and is a creative cook; who will deliver consistently high-quality meals for our students. Many of our young people rely on us to deliver a healthy and nutritious warm meal on a consistent daily basis. They face or have faced challenging experiences in life and hot food served with love goes a long way to helping them cope with their social and emotional difficulties.

Key Responsibilities:

Prepare and cook nutritious, balanced meals for our students, considering dietary restrictions and allergies. Roughly on average 30-40 meals a day.

Be responsible for delivering a good quality service and ensuring meals are presented and served in an attractive way.

Maintain high standards of hygiene, cleanliness and food safety in the kitchen.

To control and order provisions creating and presenting school meals across the trust.

Cater for staff inset and twilight training sessions.

We are recognised as a ‘School of Character’ and encourage Responsibility, Respect and Resilience. These are characteristics we expect of all our students and staff regardless of their role within the school.

The Links Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We will also require two appropriate references. As part of the recruitment process online checks will be carried out on shortlisted candidates.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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.

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About Links Hatfield Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• School size: 15 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Links Hatfield Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/links-hatfield-academy

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