Catering Assistant

**Full Job Description**:
**How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?**

**Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

**Job title: Catering Assistant**

**Location: The Holden School, Leigh, Greater Manchester**

**Salary: £18,832.35 per annum**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 7-30am-3pm**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time only**

**UK Applicants only**

If you really want to make your mark in a rapidly growing business that is committed to improving the lives of pupils and young people, we have the role for you We are recruiting for a Catering Assistant to join our close-knit team at The Holden School.

**Job Purpose**

To support the Catering Manager by performing a variety of tasks in all areas of the kitchen, including food prep as directed by the Catering Manager. To also ensure the kitchen is clean and hygienic. To ensure meals are served and produced to a good standard.

**Areas of Responsibilities & Key Tasks**
- Cleaning all kitchen areas, equipment and fabric as required, and keeping the servery and dining areas clean, washing and sanitising tables and chairs.
- Recording and reporting any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to the required standard through normal cleaning procedures.
- Preparing and serving food/meals, at all sites.
- Prepares the service and dining areas, at all sites.
- Rotate food stock supplies as necessary, at all sites.
- Update the Catering Manager of food/kitchen requirements for ordering before stock runs out for all sites.
- With reasonable notice, to work additional hours to support the Catering Manager in periods of staff absence and/or heavy workloads i.e., preparing refreshments for functions/events.
- To transport food and equipment to either site as required.
- Lifting of equipment and loading of dishwasher and other kitchen equipment.
- Emptying of bins and taking refuge out to main refuge bins on either site.
- Use of basement at Chapel Street to use dishwasher and access any other relevant catering resources or equipment.

**Qualifications: Food Hygiene preferably**

**About us**

The Holden School is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 16, catering for pupils with a wide range of needs in Lancashire, Manchester and surrounding areas. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life. We are a Therapeutic Led, Trauma Informed School providing individualised curriculums for our young people supported by our Class Teams, our Pastoral Team and our own Therapists.

We pride ourselves in steering pupils in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them academically and socially, to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.

Acorn Education & Care is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**For further information or for an informal discussion please contact the school and ask to speak to Mark Fletcher, Headteacher.**

We believe that it is extremely important that you feel heard We had great results from our Great Place to Work Survey:

- ** 86% said that I am treated as a full member here regardless of my position.**:

- ** 80% agree that Management shows a sincere interest in me as a person, not just an employee.**:

- ** 80% said I feel I make a difference here.**:

- ** 80% of you said I'm proud to tell others I work here.**:

- ** 91% of Team Members said My work has special meaning: this is not "just a job".**:

- ** 89% said that when you join the organisation, you are made to feel welcome.**:

- ** 89% said that I get empathy and support from my manager/supervisor when needed.**:

- ** 88% agree that Management recognises honest mistakes as part of doing business.**

**Why join Acorn Education & Care?**

**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 offer