Job Description

KITCHEN ASSISTANT
Required Start Date: 29 October 2018 or earlier
Hours/Days Per Week: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday: 12.45pm to 6.30pm and Wednesday 11.45am to 6pm (21 hours per week, term time only)

Actual Salary: £7,979 to £8,295 pa (depending on experience)

Band 2 to Midpoint, Scale Point11-14

Are you passionate about healthy eating and enjoy working in a friendly environment with children with special educational needs.? If so, come and be part of this friendly successful school.

Ramsden Hall Academy is a Residential school, with circa 90 secondary-age male students . We are looking for a Kitchen Assistant to join our friendly and successful Catering team to assist the Catering Manager, Cooks and Assistantswith students' residential healthy food preparation, cooking serving dinners, washing up and cleaning the kitchen.

The successful candidate must:

• Have a commitment to high standards of hygiene and cleanliness
• Enjoy food preparation and cleaning
• Show patience and enthusiasm with the students
• Be able to demonstrate a positive attitude
• Have a flexible approach and be a team player.

Experience of a similar environment would be an advantage but is not essential, as part of our commitment to staff development, training will be available.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. This post will be conditional upon an Enhanced Disclosure being obtained via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). We are commited to Safer Recruitment and aim for quality services and equal opportunities.

Visits are welcomed, please contact Jane Quilter on 01277 624580 for any further information or any queries, alternatively email: jquilter@ramsdenbillericay.co.uk. Applications should be made using the application form found on this website or alternatively on the Academy's website www.ramsdenhall.org.uk, CV's will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications is Monday 1 October midday. Interviews: w/c 1 October 2018.

Information about the School

Ramsden Hall Academy is a Residential Special School for male students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH) based in Ramsden Heath, Billericay, Essex.

The Academy was judged Good at its recent Ofsted inspections and is part of the Parallel Learning Trust, a Multi Academy Trust and DfE approved sponsor.

The Academy works with up to 100 secondary-age and Year 6 male students who have an Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP) for Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) issues offering a residential provision.

The Academy aims to support all students with their specific needs and barriers to learning to enable them to reach their full potential both academically and in terms of managing their behaviour. This is achieved by providing high quality teaching and learning and by using assessment, engagement and developing educational programmes. The Academy works actively with students and their families to ensure positive outcomes for all.

Focused attention is paid to the student’s individual needs through an integrated therapeutic approach to the curriculum. The Academy works with families to put in place aspirational targets for all learners and always celebrate the achievements of students to reinforce their success and achievement.

Any of the students demonstrating the skills and attainment required to successfully reintegrate into a mainstream school will be supported in the transition. Families will also receive support and guidance on how to best work with the school to help ensure their child is successful. The Academy aims for all students to enter further education, training or employment on exit from the Academy.

Our site is both attractive and well equipped in all areas of the curriculum and is well resourced. The school is situated with 14 acres of land in Ramsden Heath, near Billericay.