General Catering Assistant

7 months ago

Barnard Castle, United Kingdom Barnard Castle School Full time

**Job Title: General Catering Assistant**

**Responsible to: Catering and Domestic Services Manager**

**Reporting to: General Catering Assistant Team Leader**

**Department: Support-Catering**

**Purpose**:The purpose of the role is to support the Executive Chef and Sous Chefs in ensuring the delivery of the highest quality food service during term time and for functions.

**Overall Responsibilities**:
**General**
- To be responsible for the efficient delivery of a high quality, customer-oriented food production service which meets the needs of the pupils, staff and visitors to the school and maintains departmental standards.
- Supporting the delivery of catering and hospitality for functions and events.

**Specific**
- To ensure the dining room is ready for use at the appropriate times for meals, break time, sports teas and functions.
- To ensure the dining room is cleaned and setup after each meal.
- To ensure the service areas, counters and hot cupboards are cleaned after each meal.
- To serve on the hotplate at meal times.
- To work in the plate wash area at meal times.
- To tidy and clean the plate wash area and ensure the removal of all waste.
- To transport food and other supplies as requested.
- To fill in and complete all paperwork when required (e.g. cleaning schedule, delivery notes)
- To serve at morning break and controlling the issue of snacks.
- Maintain the highest standards of health, hygiene and safety.
- To immediately report all accidents, near misses, damage or breakages to the Catering Manager.
- To actively assist in ensuring a five star food hygiene rating.
- To ensure that the Catering Department is opening and closed at the required times and secured when not in use.
- To undertake any other tasks appropriate with the duties and responsibilities of the post
- To attend any relevant training sessions to ensure that you are fully equipped to perform your role effectively

**In order to meet the high standards expected of a member of staff in our School, the Bursar is seeking to employ a person with the following qualities, experience, skills and abilities**:
**Person Specification**

**Essential Requirements**
- Ability to carry out all aspects of the role to a high standard at all times
- Excellent social and verbal communication skills
- Positive attitude
- Approachable and flexible.
- A common sense approach.
- Must be able to work on own initiative, and with resilience.
- The ability to organise workload and multi-task.
- The ability to work without direct supervision.
- The ability to work as a member of a team
- Excellent attendance and punctuality
- Highly motivated with a drive to introduce continuous improvement.
- Reliable

**Desirable Requirements**
- NVQ level 1/2 in Catering & Hospitality
- Certificate in food hygiene training
- Certificate in First Aid.
- Certificate in Health and Safety including Knowledge of COSHH regulations, safe storage and working practices
- Experience of delivering a catering service in a high volume environment.
- Experience of working in a boarding school or residential environment.
- An awareness of child protection and safeguarding procedures/ The Children’s Act
- An understanding of Keeping Children Safe in Education.
- An awareness of National Minimum Standards in Boarding.

**Minimum Training:

- **

The following training courses are considered to be a minimum requirement for the post and will be planned as appropriate to support the role, responsibilities and duties undertaken:
- Health and safety
- Fire safety awareness
- Food Hygiene
- Child protection and safeguarding

**Expectations as a member of Barnard Castle School Staff**
- To have high professional standards and so be an appropriate role model of reliability, behaviour and appearance
- To relate to children in an atmosphere of trust, frankness and ambition and to engender a climate of mutual respect
- To make sure that pupils meet the School’s expectations of them
- To facilitate the development of children’s confidence, self-esteem, determination, responsibility and personal pride in achievement, behaviour and appearance
- To understand that offering a well-rounded education means engaging beyond the classroom, and therefore contributing to the wider life of the Barney education.
- To contribute to marketing the school and to promote the School to prospective pupils and parents
- To establish and maintain high standards of communication with pupils, staff and parents
- To uphold all the policies of Barnard Castle School
- To take an interest in how the School functions and to convey suggestions for improvement to the Domestic Services and Catering Manager, Bursar and Headmaster from time to time
- To subscribe to the School’s ethos of inclusivity, collegiality and helpfulness.

This job description reflects the present requirements of the post and is not intended to be exhaustive. staff may be required to carry out such other duties as the Bursar may reasonably requi

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