Chef Cook

Job description / Role

Job overview

There is no better time to start a career within our catering team than now! Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career? If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment, then look no further and apply today!

Rugeley School are recruiting for a cook to join their catering team! We are looking for passionate people who can promote healthy eating and provide varied meals that meet the required care standards and contribute to the wellbeing of our children and young people. In this role, you will be responsible for the cooking within the school as well as the menu planning, shopping, and adhering to set budgets within the school to deliver healthy, varied, and nutritious diets for young people and the staff within the school. In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring that the kitchen and associated areas are kept to a high standard of hygiene, including food and equipment storage.

The hours for this role are 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday during term time with an extra 10 days working on a 40 weeks per annum contract.

Our benefits include exclusive access to a reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid-for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme, and more!

As part of Aspris Childrenu2019s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills, and life experience, and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

A Level 3 qualification or equivalent is an essential requirement, as well as previous experience preparing and cooking meals gained within a professional kitchen environment along with the following characteristics:

• Communication u2013 Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication play a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation u2013 You will need to be confident and organised in updating menus, dietary requirements, and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
• Attentive u2013 No young person is the same, so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want to progress your career, Aspris Childrenu2019s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least two references which cover the last three years. For all our services, we will request references from where you have worked with either children or vulnerable adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our schools.