School Cook - Cheshire, United Kingdom - Aurora Summerfields School
Description
School Cook
Location:
Wilmslow, Cheshire East
Salary:
£ £13.33 per hour depending on experience
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, term time only. Working 7.30am - 3pm Monday to Friday
The Aurora Group
We're really pleased to be opening our
Aurora Summerfields School in February 2023 in
Wilmslow with a proposed capacity of 50 students.
This will be a brand new independent specialist school for young people aged 5 to 19, who face difficulties as a result of complex communication needs typically associated with Autism spectrum conditions.
'Outstanding' rated
Aurora Hanley School which you can read about
here**Amongst a number of other new roles, we're currently looking for an experienced
Cook to start in January 2023
The Role:
The role of Cook is to provide good quality food, for a range of dietary needs, using fresh ingredients.
The role will deliver an effective catering service with a dynamic approach to continually strive to improve the catering with new initiatives and menu ideas and distilling an enthusiasm for cooking and eating well in others.
Key Duties:
- Provide a balanced menu and diet to a high standard within budget.
- Ensure current legislation/regulations are fully met, and that records are kept up to date and are available for inspection.
- Undertake full range of management tasks for catering team, including supervisions, supporting training needs, preparing rotas to contracted hours and staffing budget and arranging cover as required.
- Create menus that are appealing and nutritionally balanced
- Prepare, cook and present home cooked food using fresh ingredients where possible ensuring appropriate portion control
- Take responsibility and ensure the smooth running of the kitchen
- Liaise with suppliers, building good relationships.
- Monitoring stock and quality control, ensuring the college remains within budget allocation.
- Undertake menu planning, to provide nutritionally balanced food, within budget.
- Ensure compliance with all regulations relating to food preparation, cooking and storage.
- Maintain the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness.
- Ordering of supplies ensuring best value
Skills and Qualifications:
- Relevant knowledge of regulations and standards for the catering environment.
- Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
- Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
- Experience working with special diets and allergens
- Highly organised
- A passion for creating healthy home cooked foods with experience of cooking with a wide range of ingredients.
What's on offer?
- Full training and continued support
- Life assurance and pension
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box lots of discounts for many high street retailers and restaurants
- Free parking
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
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