School Cook - Basingstoke - 25 hours per week
Academics are looking for an experienced School Cook who is available from January 2025 to work in a busy school kitchen in Basingstoke!
This is an on-going assignment working approximately 25 hours per week/5 per day during term-time (39 weeks of the year). Pay varies on experience from 14 - 18 per hour. This is ideally suited to someone living in the Basingstoke area.
As a School Cook, you will be responsible for:
- Providing cooked meals for pupils that are both nutritional and appetising
- Ensuring the Kitchen is functional and clean to prepare food daily
- Implementing the schools Lunchtime and Behaviour policies, ensuring the security, safety, welfare and good conduct of pupils during the midday break.
- Promoting the development of the physical and mental well-being of pupils as directed by a teacher.
Key Accountabilities:
- To ensure that a nutritional menu is followed
- To fully comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 etc, the schools Health and Safety Policy and all locally agreed safe methods of work
- To work with colleagues to achieve service plan objectives and targets
Principal Responsibilities/Duties for School Cook:
- To organise and arrange deliveries of all food products to ensure that stock is always readily available to deliver the menu choice for the day
- To follow and adhere to all menu and recipes provided
- To follow the food hygiene guidelines and complete all required documentation, daily/weekly etc
- To ensure that all food is cooked, prepared and service in-line with the company standards
- To always keep the kitchen area in a clean and tidy state.
- To report any structural / Health and Safety issues on iAM compliant and if urgent directly to the Site Lead
- To provide a friendly, efficient and hygienic service to all pupils.
- To ensure that pupils are given a prompt and efficient service, and expectations are consistently exceeded.
- To be pupil focused at all times, by being visible during service periods, approachable and quick to exceed expectations in fulfilling pupil needs.
- To ensure that all bookwork is completed in a timely manner: accurately and efficiently in line with the SFBB guidelines.
- To project a willing and helpful attitude to pupils; to seek the appropriate knowledge of food items provided through out catering areas and to keep areas and service counters clean and fully stocked.
- To co-operate with all team members and undertake duties in the kitchen / service areas as requested to ensure an efficient and effective service is always delivered.
- To attend food safety, health and safety and environmental training courses as required.
- To rigorously follow the unit cleaning schedules.
If you are a School Cook living in Basingstoke and the above sounds of interest to you, please apply!
