Catering Assistant

Applefields School; Malton; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Arete Learning Trust is seeking a Catering Assistant in Malton, North Yorkshire, to work in the school kitchen and dining room. You will assist cooks to deliver a safe, efficient catering service, perform basic food preparation, serve meals, and maintain cleanliness to high food-safety standards.

The role is 25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time only plus training days (39 weeks per year). Permanent contract with the Catering Manager as line manager awaits the successful candidate.

Responsibilities

• Basic food preparation
• Serving meals in the dining hall
• Washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining areas
• Setting out and putting away dining furniture
• Assisting cooks to deliver efficient catering
• Adhering to high food safety standards

Job description

Salary:£15,003 Annually (Actual), Salary based on full time equivalent of £25,614

Contract:Permanent

Location:Malton, North Yorkshire

About this Role

Working within the school kitchen and dining room, assisting the cooks, to deliver an efficient catering service for the school, operating to the highest standards of food safety. This will include help with basic food preparation, setting out and putting away dining furniture, serving meals, washing up and cleaning the kitchen and dining room.

Hours of Work:25 hours per week (Monday - Friday), term time only plus training days (39 weeks per year)

Position Type: Permanent

Line Manager: Catering Manager

Travel Required: No

The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

• Health, happiness and wellbeing
• A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
• A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
• High standards and expectations
• Integrity, kindness and good manners
• Respect for individuality and difference
• Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

• Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
• Are committed to our Trust values.
• Show initiative and are responsive to change.
• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
• Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement ( https://www.arete.uk/careers ). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Key Documents:

Start date:As soon as possible

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.