Chef/Cook

eTeach UK Limited; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist education provider in Tees Valley is seeking a cook to join their catering team. The candidate will be responsible for cooking, menu planning, and ensuring kitchen hygiene while managing food budgets. Passion for healthy eating and experience in a professional kitchen are essential. The role offers a commitment to ongoing training and various employee benefits including a pension scheme and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme

Comprehensive induction

Commitment to ongoing training and career progression

Pension scheme

Paid for enhanced DBS

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Previous experience preparing and cooking meals in a professional kitchen environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people.
• Confidence in organizing menus and dietary requirements.

Responsibilities

• Cook within the home and plan meals.
• Shop and manage budgets for food supplies.
• Ensure kitchen hygiene and proper storage of food.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Attentive

Education

Level 3 qualification or equivalent

Job description

Job Overview

Hurworth House 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 cooking within the home as well as menu planning, shopping and adhering to set budgets within the home to deliver healthy, varied and nutritious diets for young people and the staff within the home. 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.

Responsibilities

Cooking within the home, menu planning, shopping, adhering to budgets, ensuring kitchen hygiene, food and equipment storage.

Benefits

• Exclusive access to 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
• More!

About the School

Hurworth House School provides specialist education for boys and girls with SEMH difficulties and autism. Our staff are highly trained, skilled and experienced in supporting and educating our children, many of whom have a co‑m‑bid diagnosis. The school is registered to provide education to up to 80 students aged between 5 and 19 years. We have a discrete primary provision and separate middle and upper schools.

Qualifications & Requirements

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 – communicating with young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation – 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 – no young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Application Process

Aspris Children’s Services 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 2 references which cover the last 3 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.