Cook

The Aurora Group; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job description

Overview and Responsibilities

Cook – Aurora Wilden View

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Salary: £24,782.92 - £27,249.00 actual annual salary

Hours: 40 hours a week – Term time only

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About Aurora Wilden View

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

The role:

The support services teams are an essential pillar in enabling the children and young adults to achieve their full potential.

As our Cook, your role will be to provide good quality food using fresh ingredients. You will be expected to take a dynamic approach to continually strive to improve the catering with new initiatives and menu ideas.

Key Duties

Duties to include (but not limited to) the following:

• Prepare, cook and present home cooked food from scratch using fresh ingredients where possible.
• Be responsible for the smooth running of the kitchen.
• Carry out risk assessments for kitchen tasks.
• Supervise and line manage the Kitchen Assistants.
• Prepare, cook and present specialist dietary and allergen meals as required.
• Liaise with suppliers, building good relationships.
• Undertake appropriate portion control.
• Monitor stock and quality control, ensuring the school remains within budget allocation.
• Plan menus and ensure stakeholders' needs are met including students and parents, ensuring we provide nutritionally balanced food within budget.

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards for the catering environment.
• Understanding of learning disabilities and/or special needs as they impact upon the support services to be provided including management of individual needs (health, social etc.) and challenging behaviours.
• Awareness of key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
• Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing.
• Knowledge of special diets and allergens.
• Management experience.
• Highly organised.
• A passion for creating healthy home cooked foods with experience of cooking with a wide range of ingredients.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support.
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• Perkbox subscription.
• Life assurance and enhanced pension scheme.
• Car lease scheme.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Free parking.
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Apply/Enquiries

If you are interested in this role, please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position, please contact [e-mail].

Applications to be made via our online application form.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.