Catering Tutor

The Green Room College, or GRC as it is known, is an independent pub based school providing a second chance at education for up to 21 young people aged 16+, who have, for various reasons, found it difficult to learn in mainstream education. They all have Education Health Care Plans indicating a variety of needs, including support for their Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ODD, PDA and/or Social, Emotional or Mental Health difficulties. Our highly dedicated team provides a broad, lively, and stimulating curriculum for our pupils based on our ROCCIT programme to give them the opportunity to enhance their Resilience, Organisation, Community, Communication, Initiative and Teamwork skills. They are also able to retake GCSE’s including English, Maths and Science, as well as engage in physical education and life skills including work experience in The Swan pub, which is our base, and our Market Garden. We focus on inspiring change within our pupils to ensure their successful future. Our pupils want to be at GRC, it is not a place they are ‘sent’. This is crucial to the culture and success of the school.

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Due to the nature of our pupils, this role would ideally suit someone who really wants to make a difference to young people’s lives; someone who wants to help them reach their potential by giving them a second chance; someone who is humble yet confident, enthusiastic yet understands the need for boundaries, and energetic yet calm. Our success is built on outstanding staff/pupil relationships and creating a safe environment for our pupils to thrive. Experience is useful but your patience, work ethic and love of our ethos is even more important to us. If you’d like to help our pupils overcome their issues to achieve great things please apply.

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Salary will be commensurate with experience and expertise.

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**JOB TITLE**: Catering Tutor - Maternity Cover

**LOCATION**: The Green Room College, based at The Swan CIC, Windsor

**REPORTING TO**: Head of College (matrixed to School Manager)

**HOURS**:Type of Employment: Part-time (5 days per week - 30 hours a week 6

hours per day - can be either 8:30 - 14:30 or 9:00 to 15:00)

**Purpose of the Role**:
Our 'Epic Thursday' brunches occur weekly, and give the students an opportunity to run a lunch service for The Swan Clewer paying customers. The "Green Canteen", which occurs once a month, is an enterprise that provides students with an experience of working in a pub kitchen and in front of house roles in a profit-share scheme. The Green Canteen runs monthly year round. Our annual events occur in various formats; this role is required to produce the menu and food to sell and eat on site or packaged to take home.

**MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
To create engaging, appropriate and confidence-building opportunities for small groups of SEND students of the college with a range of needs, to learn about healthy and nutritious food, and how to work in a professional kitchen by teaching cookery, reinforcing food hygiene and food/kitchen safety and kitchen portering skills - ensuring 5* environmental health standards. Activities should support the development of students' independence and life skills through cookery activities, e.g. washing tea towels, hygiene, and cooking skills.

Work with your manager to create a programme of study, producing a scheme of work and half-termly assessments.

To ensure a safe learning environment, particularly ensuring the correct use of PPE by students and other users of the kitchen.

To design a rolling menu that offers challenge and excitement to pupils who are learning kitchen skills, and ensures meals are healthy and nutritious.

To order food needed for breakfasts, lunches and Green Canteen events ensuring cost-effectiveness, appropriate storage/stock rotation and timeliness.

To cook a wholesome lunch from scratch every day for all Windsor based staff pupils and visitors, ensuring efficient production to a high standard.

Work with the School Managers to manage the logistics of ensuring food reaches GRW at correct temperature and excellent quality in a timely manner.

To cook for ‘Epic Thursday’ each Thursday in term-time with a team of students of the college.

To run Green Canteen events with a team of students from the college, once per month for all 12 months so there is consistency for our customers and pupils. This involves menu design (both what the food is and the physical menu), marketing, purchasing/ordering and delivery on the night as well as clear up. Every effort should be made to ensure profitability of the events so pupils can be financially rewarded for it.

To cook for annual events as required with a team of students from the college.

Request and act upon feedback from all diners on the quality of the food.

All activities need to be completed to 5* environmental health standards.

Work collaboratively with management and other members of staff to ensure that lessons/activities are