Catering Assistant

**High Oaks**
Hounslow

£12,540 per year

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**Job type**:

Part Time, Permanent

**Start date**:

04.11.24
7 October 2024

**Job overview**:
***Catering Assistant**:
Oaklands is an outstanding special school serving the London Borough of Hounslow that provides specialist education to students with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple difficulties and autism. We have a Primary school (New Oaks) and a Secondary school (High Oaks). We are based across two different sites with both our school buildings offering state of the art facilities for our students.

Due to our continued expansion, we are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and organised catering assistant to work within our busy kitchen team at High Oaks Secondary School. The role involves preparing and serving freshly cooked meals and sandwiches to our students amongst other duties.

We therefore require someone who has previous experience of working in a catering environment and who holds a level 2 food hygiene qualification. **_Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role. _**

We value our employees and offer excellent training and support as well as a pension scheme, employee assistance programme and many other well-being benefits. These include our onsite gym, showering facilities and coffee shop with discounted barista coffee.
Details of this post are available on the school’s website:

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**Closing Date**: 9am on Monday 7th October 2024

**Interview Date**: Tuesday 15th October 2024

**Start Date**: 4th November 2024

**Pay scales**: Hounslow Scale 2 point 3

**Actual Salary**: £12,540 per annum

**Hours of work**: 20 hours per week: 11.00am - 3.00pm Monday to Friday.

**Contract Type**: Part time. Term time only (39 weeks). Permanent.

**CV’s will not be accepted. No Agencies Please.**

**Attached documents**:

- Job Description
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Person specification
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**About **High Oaks**:
**High Oaks**
- Gresham Road, Hounslow
Middlesex
TW3 4BX
United Kingdom
+44 20 8560 3569
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**Oaklands is an ‘outstanding’ special school serving the London Borough of Hounslow that provides specialist education to students with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple difficulties and autism aged 4-19. We have a Primary school (New Oaks), and a Secondary school (High Oaks). We are based across two different sites with both our school buildings offering state of the art facilities for our students and we serve a socially and ethnically diverse population, with children coming from within Hounslow and the surrounding Boroughs**.**:
**We are interested to hear from qualified teachers (QTS/QTLS) who are already working in special education and looking for a change, NQT's and those who work mainstream but are considering branching out into special education. All teachers are invited to come along and see our school and find out more about what its like working here.**:
**We value our employees and offer excellent training and support along with a pension scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and other well-being benefits.**:
**Careers at Oaklands School**:
**Can you make a difference to children and young people’s lives? We have opportunities for people who wish to develop a career working with students with learning disabilities.**

**We need to employ many more staff over the coming years and would like to hear from anyone looking to develop a career in special education.**:
Oaklands secondary school moved to its current location in 2018 and boasts excellent facilities to provide a secondary and preparing for adulthood curriculum. Facilities include a sports centre, which is hired during evenings and weekends and outside term time under a planning condition.

Oaklands holds both an Ofsted Outstanding grade and also an advanced level accreditation from the National Autistic Society.

At Oaklands we aim to work closely with Hounslow’s special educational needs department to provide for the needs of Hounslow borough and are strongly committed to meeting the needs of Hounslow’s children and young people. We work with a school partnership established with schools in 3 boroughs, and with the Hounslow Education partnership. Oaklands provides training to a range of local provisions.

Oaklands believes that all of our students are capable of making outstanding progress and we want to appoint individuals who share our belief.

**Career Opportunities**

Apprentice Teaching Assistant

Relief/Bank Learning Support Assistants

Education Support Assistant (ESA)

Teaching Assistant (TA)

Teachers

Lunchtime Classroom Assistants

Upon completing their apprenticeship, our staff will gain a level 3 qualification.

We offer teacher training sponsorship.

We would like to offer work experience placements to students interested in pursuing a career in special education and are always keen to hear from those wanting to volunteer in our school.

**Benefits