Cook Supervisor

**The Opportunity**
If you all about using your good communication skills to support pupils with their life skills, can prepare healthy and nutritious food, then you’ll be in good company in the Catering team.

As a Cook Supervisor, you will play an essential role in the function of the catering team based at Fordwater School.

This exciting opportunity requires you to be responsible for the smooth operation of the kitchen, including preparation, cooking, and cleaning to the required standards, ensuring hygiene and safety measure are maintained.

You will manage the service and lead a team to provide healthy and freshly produced school meals for pupils and staff. Plus additional meetings, training days or additional activities which may require catering requirements.

You will highly motivated, flexible team player who can demonstrate a proven ability to achieve budget targets whilst providing a high-quality catering service.

You will be comfortable organising your own workload and a keen problem solver who responds to unanticipated problems and making effective service decisions.

**For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.**
**Working For Us**
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:

- An excellent **local government pension scheme**:

- Term Time Only Contract: you will be only required to work during periods that correspond with school term time.
- A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- Volunteering opportunities
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our **Staff discounts page** if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our **Rewards and Benefits page.**
**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is **CPP00931**.

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RSi

Job Reference: CPP00931