Cookery Tutor

**Cookery Tutor**:
**Employer**: Medway Council

**Salary**: LA 1-3 (£21.98-27.47 per hour)

**Location**: Fixed - Gillingham Centre with the opportunity to teach at partner venues

**Contract**: Casual

**Working Pattern**: Flexible Hours/Part Time

**Hours**: 0 hours per week. Sessional.

**DBS Check**: Enhanced

**Closing Date**: 28/05/2023 at 23:55

**Reference**: REC2409HW

Medway Adult Education are recruiting a sessional Cookery tutor, to teach weekly classes at the new Gillingham Centre, daytime and some evenings - including meal planning, healthy-eating, vegan, fermenting, gluten-free, healthy snacks. MAE welcome ideas for new cuisines.

The teaching will be from one or more of the following: groups of adults, Family Learning and Supported Learning.

MAE are part of the Medway Food Bank and will be running some cookery courses in partnership.

There will also be opportunities to teach out at partner venues in the local community and ad hoc events.

**In return we offer you**:

- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Generous local government pension scheme package
- Access to wider training and development qualifications
- Flexible working scheme
- Travel plan discounts
- Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker
- Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
- Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers

**Our organisation**:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.

Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.

We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.

Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.

If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager please call Carolyne Pilcher on 01634 338436.

**Important Information-**

**Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile**

**Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement**

**For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.**
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date._

**How to apply**:
If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.