Kitchen Assistant

5 months ago

Ashford, United Kingdom Acorn Education and Care Full time

**Full Job Description**:
**We're on a mission to give our colleagues an amazing work/life balance**

**Job tile: Kitchen Assistant**

**Location: Heath Farm School, Charing Heath, Ashford, Kent**

**Salary: £10,043.92 per annum (£11.26 per hour)**

**Hours: 20 hours per week; Monday to Friday**

**Contract: Permanent; Term Time only**

**About the role**

We are seeking to appoint a Kitchen Assistant. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our catering team providing meals for students and staff.

**About the role**

The purpose of this job is to assist the Catering Manager to prepare and serve school meals. There is also an element of interaction with students to encourage a happy and healthy school lunchtime. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assist with the preparation, cooking and serving of meals, considering any special dietary needs.
- To assist with the clearing up and cleaning of the kitchen equipment, kitchen area and dining hall.
- Food preparation: both on site serving and for other schools if required.
- Ensure all health and safety and food hygiene regulations are maintained within the kitchen environment.
- Ensuring a good standard of cleanliness is maintained.
- Reporting problems raised.
- Report any cancellations or extra meals needed and maintaining records.
- To assist in the lunchtime supervision of pupils to ensure that the meal is completed on time in a safe and hygienic setting.
- Report behaviour observations to a teacher in order for them to maintain the school’s standard of discipline and behaviour.

**About the School**

It is an exciting time to join Heath Farm School. Under the leadership of the new, forward-thinking headteacher, the school and its team are currently in the process of redesigning and creating a purposeful and unique ‘Heath Farm Curriculum’ that fully meets the holistic needs of our students.

We are an independent SEN school that offers a unique and stimulating environment where every pupil can make outstanding progress in their personal development and enjoy success in their education. From our nurturing approach for primary pupils through to the relaxed working environment of the specialist 6th Form Centre, all students are encouraged to reach high standards in every aspect of their lives.

Our students present with a wide range of needs, including social and emotional issues, learning difficulties, mental health problems and associated conditions. However, they are able to enjoy extraordinary outcomes and be happy at school.

As an independent SEN school, we are far removed from the toxicity and bureaucracy found in so many other schools and we are able to abandon ineffective and traditional methods in favour of new, highly effective and tailored initiatives - essentially, we do what we know is right for the students in our care.

We are part of Acorn Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

Acorn Education is part of the Outcomes First Group.

**Why join Acorn Education?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

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