Job Title: Kitchen Assistant
Location: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Salary: £10,362 per annum
Job type: Part-Time, Permanent (34 weeks a year)
Hours: 4 days a week, 9am to 2pm
Closing date: 9am on Monday 4th October 2021
Great Walstead School is an Independent Prep School for children aged 2½ – 13 years situated in 300 acres of woodland, with excellent facilities and a caring family atmosphere. You will be joining a thriving prep school in the heart of Sussex with a friendly, hardworking and supportive team.
The Role:
- To assist the catering team in the kitchen operation and production of meals for pupils and staff – up to 500 meals at lunchtime.
- To assist with catering for various School functions and special events.
- To ensure the School’s reputation for food quality is maintained at all times.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting the catering department in preparation and serving of food and beverages during the school day
- Provide catering support for School events and functions in line with the School Calendar
- Assist with School events when catering is required, including out-of-hours if requested.
- Assist with daily cleaning
- Minimise waste levels at all stages of the catering process.
- To ensure that pupils, staff and parents are given a prompt and efficient service and expectations are consistently met.
- To be customer focused at all times; approachable and quick to fulfil customer needs.
The ideal candidate will have/ be:
Essential
- Literate & Numerate
- Ideally hold a Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety
- Catering background
- Previous experience of mass catering
- Ability to multi-task during busy times
- Ability to communicate effectively with parents, pupils and staff
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Customer Service
- Have a working knowledge of fresh food preparation
- Good attention to detail
- Calm personality
- Be able to work as part of a team and be approachable, friendly and cheerful
- Ability to achieve performance criteria set by school
- Positive approach to learning in role
- Self-motivated
- Sense of own initiative
- High standard of personal hygiene
- Flexible approach to role in hours working
Desirable
- First aid certificate
- Dietary awareness
Please Note:
- Uniform will be provided
- PPE provided and must be worn
- Some weekend may be required
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all of their staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS and to register with the update service.
Please click on the APPLY button and you will be redirected to the School’s careers page to complete your application.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of Restaurant Chef Assistant, Catering Assistant, Food Catering, Chef Assistant, Food Preparation, Cook Assistant, Kitchen Assistant, Food Hygiene, Food Health and Safety Assistant may also be considered for this role.
