Kitchen Assistant

Annual Salary: £12,824 per annum (FTE £24,703)

Working hours: 9:30-2:30pm Monday-Friday (25 hours) term time only

Job Description

Main purpose

To provide a quality catering service which supports the wellbeing of pupils and staff in line with the school’s ethos. This includes meeting school catering and health and safety standards.

Duties and responsibilities

• Meal provision
• Prep cook and serve lunches for the pupils and staff of Michael Hall School daily during the school day
• Provide good quality school lunchtime meals in line with government guidelines and legislation on school nutrition standards
• Cater to special dietary requirements and ensure that allergy information is effectively communicated and labelled
• Fully clean the work environment after every provision
• Ensure the provision is inline with the school’s ethos
• Promoting healthy eating, cultural diversity and encouraging pupils to try new foods
• Contribute to menu planning when needed with organic/free-range, seasonal and wholesome meals with fresh local ingredients, under Head Chef instruction
• Support with the management of food stocks to prevent shortages or excess supply and adhere to the catering budget
• Minimise food wastage
• Contribute to the support of the development of the vision for the food provision at Michael Hall School

Working in a team

• Promote morale and wellbeing among the team
• Promote a friendly working relationship with colleagues
• Promote a good company image to customers and guests and use positive customer service practices
• Support with cover in times of staff absence

Health and safety

• Ensure that the kitchen and dining area are kept clean and hygienic at all times
• Ensure that kitchen equipment is used safely and according to operating manuals
• Adhere to proper hygiene procedures, including wearing the correct uniform
• Follow the cleaning schedules to necessary standards
• Record all accidents and incidents
• To report any incident of accident, fire, theft, loss, damage, and act as may be appropriate or possible
• Contribute to ensuring the compliance of school catering standards legislation, under Head Chef instruction
• Contribute to ensuring that HACCP procedures, legal and company regulations regarding hygiene, food, health, and safety are complied with, under Head Chef instruction
• Contribute to ensuring that EHO expectations are met, and be the direct contact with the EHO for registration and upkeep of SFBB, under Head Chef instruction
• Contribute towards creating and maintaining the school’s food safety policy, health and safety policy, and allergens policy, under Head Chef instruction

Other areas of responsibility

Safeguarding

• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (including Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and the school’s safeguarding and child protection policies
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school

Other

• To undertake occasional duties outside the normal routine but within the scope of the position and the department’s activities
• Option to assist, at special functions such as lettings, some of which may occur outside normal working hours, for which you will be paid overtime
• To report any complaint or compliment and act if possible
• To attend meetings and courses, as require
• Working alongside the Estates Manager and the Site Team; and the School’s Market Gardener, reporting to the Head of Operations

This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive statement of procedures and responsibilities, but instead sets out the principal expectations of the School in relation to the post holder's professional responsibilities and duties. There may be a requirement to perform any other tasks as reasonably required by the Principal or Head of Operations.