Kitchen Assistant

Job Description

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Job Description:

Sir Martin Frobisher is looking for an enthusiastic, adaptable, and reliable person to join our school as a Kitchen Assistant to work in our busy school kitchen. The post is for 11 hours per week, term time only with the working day running from 12pm to 2:15pm, Monday to Thursday then 12pm until 2pm on Friday.

Duties:

· To assist in the preparation and presentation of all food to the required statutory regulations and school standards.

· To carry out cleaning duties within the kitchen and dining areas as required.

· To maintain a high standard of personal and general cleanliness and hygiene to comply with statutory and school regulation.

· To comply with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role, for health and safety in the workplace.

· To report immediately any accidents, fire, theft, loss, damage, or unfit food or other irregularities and take such action as may be appropriate or possible.

· To ensure staff absences from your shift are reported to the School Office and Catering Manger

· The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.

· To attend training activities and/or meetings as required.

Experience and qualifications

· Experience of the preparation and cooking of simple food

· Level 2 in Food Safety preferable

· Experience working in a school preferred

· Ability to use kitchen and cleaning equipment

· Ability to establish rapport and respectful relationships with children and staff members

· Ability to work effectively within a team

· To understand procedures relating to confidentiality

· Ability to manage own time effectively

· Good organisational skills

Information about the School

Sir Martin Frobisher Academy is a primary academy in Jaywick, Essex, with a current roll of 170~ children. Many of our families live on the Brooklands Estate in Jaywick Sands, the most deprived area in Britain. We are pleased to be able to offer transport to those families most in need to ensure their children can attend school regularly.

Sir Martin Frobisher converted to academy status in Sept 2016 and now has a strong, committed and experienced senior leadership team, in place for the next 3 to 5 years, who are dedicated to moving the school forward, while ensuring the individual needs of all children are met.

The Academy has a high number of PPG, FSM and SEND children and all staff need to understand the complexity of this and of the unique community that Sir Martin Frobisher Academy is at the heart of.

Having determined, and recently implemented, our consistent whole-school teaching and learning strategies, we are now excited to begin to monitor the impact these will have on children’s learning over time. The children at Sir Martin Frobisher Academy are lively and enthusiastic, and need the very best, and fully committed, practitioners.

The sense of community is developing, and we are hoping to move back to a Local Governing Body in September 2023, following our Intervention Board being invoked to hold all stakeholders to account.