KITCHEN ASSISTANT
Permanent Contract to Start As Soon As Possible
20 hours per week – to be worked flexibly over 5 days
Job Ref: XS2.2
Grade 1 SCP 2 – £11.59 per hour
Term time only
We require a Kitchen Assistant to join our School Café Team. You will work closely with our Café Manager, making sure you maintain high quality food and service at all times in a very busy working environment.
Experience in this field would be beneficial but full training will be provided.
The right candidate will:
- Be able to work on their own and in a team.
- Be able to take direction from the Café Manager.
- Have knowledge of basic food preparation.
- Undertake general cleaning duties to keep the area clean and hygienic (COSHH).
- Have a friendly and efficient manner in serving students and staff.
- Be flexible, punctual and reliable.
- Be competent in handling money.
What Ferndown Can Offer You:
- CPD opportunities and training and development programmes.
- Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A tax efficient Childcare Scheme through salary sacrifice.
- Access to health and wellbeing support.
- Private Healthcare Plan including 24/7 access to a GP by phone, gym discounts, cashback for optical, dental and other appointment expenses for employees and their children.
- Access to staff benefits and discounts portal through Dorset Council.
For more details please contact dianebones@fernup.dorset.sch.uk
To apply, please click on ‘Apply Now’ on the Dorset Jobs website or an application is available on our website www.fernup.dorset.sch.uk/vacancies
Close date: midnight Sunday 8th September 2024
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB) in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
Ferndown Upper School values the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community. This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Ferndown Upper School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.