Job Title: Part-Time Kitchen Assistant
Location: The Holden School, Leigh, Greater Manchester
Salary: £11,150.00 per annum
Hours: 20 hours per week, TBC
Contract: Permanent, Term Time only
As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Part-Time Kitchen Assistant to join our close-knit team at The Holden School, part of Acorn Education.
Job Purpose:
To support the Catering Manager by performing a variety of tasks in all areas of the kitchen, including food prep as directed by the Catering Manager. To ensure the kitchen is clean and hygienic and that meals are served and produced to a good standard.
Responsibilities & Key Tasks:
* Cleaning all kitchen areas, equipment, and fabric as required, and keeping the servery and dining areas clean, washing and sanitising tables and chairs.
* Recording and reporting any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to the required standard through normal cleaning procedures.
* Preparing and serving food/meals, at all sites.
* Preparing the service and dining areas, at all sites.
* Rotating food stock supplies as necessary, at all sites.
* Updating the Catering Manager of food/kitchen requirements for ordering before stock runs out for all sites.
* With reasonable notice, working additional hours to support the Catering Manager in periods of staff absence and/or heavy workloads, e.g., preparing refreshments for functions/events.
* Transporting food and equipment to either site as required.
* Lifting equipment and loading the dishwasher and other kitchen equipment.
* Emptying bins and taking refuse out to main refuge bins on either site.
* Using the basement at Chapel Street to use the dishwasher and access any other relevant catering resources or equipment.
Qualifications: Food Hygiene preferable
About Us:
The Holden School is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 16, catering for pupils with a wide range of needs in Lancashire, Manchester, and surrounding areas. Our dedicated team works together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life. We are a Therapeutic Led, Trauma Informed School providing individualised curriculums for our students supported by our Class Teams, Pastoral Team, and our own Therapists.
Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
Why Join Acorn Education?
Benefits:
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* Access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
* A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
* Hundreds of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
* Cycle to Work Schemes
* Electric Car Purchase Scheme
* Critical illness cover
* Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
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