School Cook

**SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL JOB DESCRIPTION**

**The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the school 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.**

**Post**:School Cook

**Hours of Work**:40 hours a week with some flexibility in working hours. This role is term time although occasional overtime may be available during the evening, at weekends. and during the holidays. Applications will be considered for full or part time hours.

**Line Manager **Catering Manager

To prepare and cook food for the children and staff. To ensure that excellent standards of food hygiene are always maintained, and that food is presented to a high standard.

**AIM**
To clear up and ensure a high standard of cleanliness in the kitchen.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:

- Supporting the Catering Manager by carrying out ordering and similar tasks.
- To always maintain a clean working environment, following Food Hygiene Regulations, in the Under

Croft (Dining Hall), Servery, Kitchen and Washing Up Area.
- To prepare and cook food for the children and staff.
- To assist with the serving of food.
- To wash up utensils used in the preparation of food and crockery and cutlery used in the Under

Croft (Dining hall)
- To unpack and safely store food and kitchen deliveries.
- To be aware and always adhere to food hygiene regulations.
- To assist with the safe and clean storage of all kitchen/dining equipment.
- To maintain high standards of personal presentation which in turn reflect in the presentation of food.
- To always maintain a professional code of conduct in relation to pupils, staff, parents, and visitors to the school.
- To assist with the smooth running of the Dining Hall, while maintaining high standards of manners and courtesy amongst pupils at all times.
- To be proactive in the management of Health and Safety in the kitchen and associated areas

1

**All school staff are expected to**:
a. Work towards and support the school vision and the current school objectives outlined in the School
Strategic Plan. b. Carry out the work of this School to the best of their ability, displaying initiative and enthusiasm and recognising that its status as preparatory and pre-prep, boarding and day school and also a choir school places additional demands and responsibilities on staff who work here. c. Support colleagues and their work, building on all that is good and helping to re-shape what could be better. d. Build relationships with pupils, staff, parents, and wider community, to promote the caring ethos of the school and reflect its Christian foundation. e. Support and contribute to the school’s responsibility for safeguarding pupils. f. Work within the school’s health and safety policy to ensure a safe working environment for staff, pupils, parents and visitors. g. Maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance, conduct and positive, courteous relations with pupils, parents and colleagues. h. Engage actively in the performance review process. i. Adhere to policies as set out in the employment handbook and staff handbooks. j. Undertake other reasonable duties related to the job purpose required from time to time.

**Person Specification**

Salisbury Cathedral School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children. All staff are trained in child protection and work within the staff code of conduct and whistle blowing policies.

**Criteria: Essential: Desirable: Method of assessment**

These are qualities These are extra qualities without which the which can be used to
Applicant could not be choose between appointed. applicants who meet all the essential criteria

Food hygiene certificates Production of the Applicant’s
**Qualifications**

Basic culinary skills are Catering certificates certificates essential although formal catering qualifications are not required

Experience of working Experience of working in Contents of the Application with the public, ideally an independent Pre
- Form, including children and an Prep/Prep School Interview,

**Experience**:educational setting. Professional references
Experience of working in a catering environment

Flexibility First Aid skills Contents of the Application
Adaptability Form,
Initiative Interview,
Ability to work well with Professional references

**Skills **other colleagues.
Good interpersonal skills
Able to work well under pressure.

3

Motivation to work with Contents of the Application children and young Form, people. Interview,
Ability to form and Professional references maintain appropriate

**Personal**
relationships and personal

**competencies**
boundaries with children

**and qualities**
and young people.
Positive attitude to use of authority and maintaining discipline

**General Requirements of