Job Title: Food Technician
Location: London
Salary: £21,885 – £23,361
Job type: Full Time – Permanent
About us:
Willowfield is embedded into our local community, educating, and caring for local children for over 100 years. Willowfield today is a happy, expanding, oversubscribed, financially secure school doing great work – as is so clearly identified in the October 2021 OFSTED inspection. Such is our popularity that we are expanding over the next few years. We now have 960 students on roll from September 2022 rising to 1050 from September 2025.
We are a mixed 11 to 16 comprehensive School within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. We are proud to be a community school that gives all our students the best possible start in life and nurtures them as effective learners and happy, productive 21st Century citizens. Willowfield is characterised by great relationships, and a real sense of community.
Responsibilities:
- Working with the subject leader of food technology, and other food technology teachers, to help ensure food technology lessons are well resourced and run safely.
- Monitoring stock across the day and week, ensuring stock level of ingredients, and cooking utensils are adequate for lessons each day.
- Maintaining the departmental inventory.
- Ordering and sourcing replacement stock at regular intervals as required, to ensure stock levels remain as required.
- Unpacking deliveries and ensuring store cupboards are tidy and hygienic.
- Ensuring the food room is ready for safe preparation and cooking, with all ingredients and resources in place for the start of practical lessons.
- Assisting staff in maintaining a safe environment in the classroom during food technology lessons
- Supporting students with their preparation and cooking, as directed by the classroom food technology teacher.
- Assisting with the clearance and disposal of used ingredients at the end of each lesson.
- Ensuring all utensils and resources are clean and returned at the end of each day, ready for the following day
- Inform the subject lead for food technology of any missing or damaged items, as soon as practicably possible.
- Assisting staff with general duties, including photocopying, arranging displays, photographing work and preparation of materials for lessons and schemes of learning.
- Undertaking appropriate training on health and safety and any other areas relevant to the role.
- Recording and maintaining accurate records of data required for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations and risk assessments for the safe use of any equipment or materials.
Whole School Expectations:
- Committed to delivering the vision and priorities of Willowfield School, following school policies
- Committed to contributing to the development of others by sharing professional learning, expertise, and skills.
- Engaging with line management and school appraisal, attending meetings as required.
- Engaging with school CPD programme.
- Acting as a role model for students through personal presentation and professional conduct.
- Following Health and Safety requirements for the school, Governing Body, and DFE
- Maintaining confidentiality inside and outside of Willowfield.
- Establishing effective working relationships with all colleagues, and external stakeholders.
Safeguarding:
- Embracing the school priorities around student safeguarding.
- Remaining vigilant at all times, following the school safeguarding policy, reporting concerns promptly.
General:
- This job description sets out the main duties of the post.
- The post holder will be expected to take on any other reasonable tasks, commensurate with the level of this post, at the direction of the Headteacher, which may change as the School develops.
- These responsibilities will be discussed annually as part of the post holder’s annual appraisal and are subject to review.
Further information including an application form will be sent to you via email after you click APPLY. Please complete the application form and email to the address provided in order to complete your application.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Catering Assistant, Food and Beverage Assistant, Serving Assistant, Catering Team Leader, General Assistants will also be considered for this role.
