School Kitchen Assistant

2 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Aurora Ivy Lane School Full time

**Kitchen Assistant**

**Location**: Wakefield

**Contract Type**: Full-time

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week, Term Time Only

**Salary**: £11.72 - £11.93 p/hr depending on experience

**Close date**: Friday 8th March

**Aurora Ivy Lane** **School**

We’re a specialist school providing education for young people aged 11 to 19 with complex care needs including behaviours that challenge and learning disabilities, often in association with autism spectrum conditions. We work hard to ensure students have a holistic and supportive environment, enabling them to flourish and develop in all aspects of life.

Based in Wakefield; we are currently looking to recruit an experienced **Kitchen Assistant.**

**The Role**

The Role of the Kitchen Assistant is to ensure the prompt and efficient preparation and service of all meals, maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the School Kitchen and associated areas.

Key duties include:

- Assist with the preparation of hot and cold meals at the required time to the required standard
- Ensure all work areas and surfaces are as clean and tidy as is practicable at all times and especially at the end of the day
- Assisting when required with planning menus, ordering and receiving deliveries
- Supporting in the organisation and preparation for any special functions/events which may sometimes be outside normal working hours
- To support the cleaning of school kitchens across the site and to also support with cleaning of other areas of the school as required.
- Attend meetings and training courses as may be necessary from time to time

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Experience working in a reactive catering environment e.g school/residential/health care setting
- Good standard of written and spoken communication
- Good standards of literacy and numeracy
- Ideally experience of maintaining a kitchen store of fresh, frozen, and ambient foodstuffs
- Possess good working knowledge of kitchen equipment and cleaning schedules
- Able to work proactively and in a self-directed/self-sufficient way
- Working knowledge of health and safety legislation, including COSHH regulations, manual handling, food hygiene procedures and requirements in relation to food preparation.
- Flexibility to deal with many and varied requests made on a daily basis
- Proactive approach to effectively spot and report defects and damage
- Work effectively in a busy environment.

**Benefits and Additional Information**:
**Benefits and Additional Information**
- ** Training and Development**

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.
- **
Save money on your bills**

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.
- **
Competitive Pay and Reward**

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.
- **
UK Health Cash Plan**

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.
- **
Employee Assistance Programme**

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.
- **
Refer a friend for £1,000**

As an employee; we’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

**How to apply?**

**The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.**

**The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.**

**This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.**

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