Overview
and Responsibilities
Cook – Aurora Wilden View
Location: Torton, Kidderminster
Salary: £,. - £,. actual annual salary
Hours: hours a week – Term time only
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.
About Aurora Wilden View
Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!
Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.
The role:
The support services teams are an essential pillar in enabling the children and young adults to achieve their full potential.
As our Cook, your role will be to to provide good quality food using fresh ingredients. You will be expected to take a dynamic approach to continually strive to improve the catering with new initiatives and menu ideas.
Key Duties
Duties to include (but not limited to)the following:
1. prepare, cook and present home cooked food from scratch using fresh ingredients where possible.
2. Be responsible for the smooth running of the kitchen
3. To carry out risk assessments for kitchen tasks
4. Supervise and Line Manage the Kitchen Assistants
5. Prepare cook and present specialist dietary and allergen meals as required.
6. Liaising with suppliers, building good relationships.
7. To undertake appropriate Portion control
8. Monitor stock and quality control, ensuring the school remains within budget allocation.
9. Plan menus and ensure stake holders needs are met including students and parents ensuring we provide nutritionally balanced food, within budget.
Please see the link below for our full job description:
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
10. Relevant regulations and standards for the catering environment.
11. Knowledge of learning disabilities and/or special needs insofar as they impact upon the support services to be provided including management of individual needs (health, social and challenging behaviours.
12. Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
13. Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
14. Special diets and allergens
15. Management experience
16. Highly organised
17. A passion for creating healthy home cooked foods with Experience of cooking with a wide range of ingredients.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
18. Full training and continued support
19. Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
20. Perkbox subscription
21. Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme
22. Car lease scheme
23. Bike to work scheme
24. Free parking
25. Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Apply/Enquiries
If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact