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**Prison Catering: Caterer - HMP Lancaster Farms - 63158**
**£23,144 - £25,697**
**Lancaster**:
**Band 3 Caterer in Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)**

This is not your average catering job. It is a great chance to put your catering qualifications (level 2 certificate in food production and level two food hygiene certificate as a minimum) and skills into practice and make an impact far beyond the kitchen.

As part of the prison’s catering team, you’ll be working in a professional industrial kitchen environment, with a good salary, pension and Civil Service benefits including apprenticeship opportunities ‘earn while you learn’. Unlike traditional restaurant jobs, you won’t have to work late into the evening.

You’ll oversee the work of offenders to prepare and cook quality, nutritional meals for the entire prison. Plus, you’ll play your part in helping them turn their lives around - supporting them to learn new skills and work towards gaining qualifications to increase their chances of employment and reduce their likelihood of reoffending when they leave prison.

For the full job description please see the supporting attachment.

Watch our video on the website (details also on the attachment below) to hear from some of our prison caterers about what the role is really like.

**Salary and hours**

**Band 3 salary minimum inclusive of 17% unsocial hours allowance - £23,144**

**Band 3 salary maximum inclusive of 17% unsocial hours allowance - £25,697**

You will work a 37 hour week and shift patterns are in place which will include:

- hours outside of 07:00 -19:00 Monday to Friday
- weekends
- bank holidays.

A small number of posts will not require shift pattern working. In these cases, the 17% unsocial hours payment will not be made

**Qualifications and experience**:

- level 2 certificate in food production within hospitality and catering or equivalent
- food hygiene certificate at Level 2

**In addition, you must be**:

- familiar with all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations for working in a kitchen
- able to demonstrate competency within an industrial kitchen environment.

Please note refresher training in food safety (HACCP) should be completed at three year intervals.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh is also required

**Are you an armed forces veteran with catering experience and qualifications?**

The ‘Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans’ initiative provides ex-service personnel with an opportunity to secure a rewarding job in the Civil Service.

This includes a guaranteed interview to individuals with catering experience who meet the minimum criteria.

**Tips for applying**:
You will need to provide an anonymised CV and answer questions which outline your past experience.

You will also need to answer specific ‘behavioural’ questions. We will ask you how you would react in your job.

Behaviours:

- Developing Self and Others
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working together

**Salary**:
£23,144 - £25,697

**Additional Information**:
Successful applicants need to be 18 at the point they take up post as an exception under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

**Working Arrangements & Further Information**

Standard working hours are 37 hours per week excluding breaks which are unpaid.

**Benefits**

The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
**Annual Leave**

Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service, plus public holidays. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis

**Pension**

Please note: Any current Civil Servant who is a member of the PCSPS, by accepting an offer of employment to the National Probation Services will be opted out of the PCSPS and auto enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme.

**Training**

The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.

**Networks**

The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

**Eligibility**

**Support**
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

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