Cook at Nine Maidens Academy, Redruth

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Redruth

On-site

GBP 21,000 - 23,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Wave Multi Academy Trust is seeking an outstanding Cook to prepare and cook academy meals, ensuring nutrition and balance while maintaining a clean kitchen. The role emphasizes teamwork, safeguarding, and promoting pupils' independence and inclusion. Training and development are highlighted in the benefits package.

Based at Nine Maidens Academy within the Camborne/Redruth area, the post requires a commitment to safeguarding and a proactive, supportive approach with children and young people.

Qualifications

Experience cooking meals for groups in a school/academy setting is preferred.
Ability to follow menus and adapt to nutritional requirements.
Commitment to safeguarding and working with children.

Responsibilities

Prepare and cook academy meals efficiently and maintain a clean, stocked kitchen.
Provide well-balanced meals and nutritional options.
Promote pupils' independence, self-esteem and social inclusion.

Skills

Cooking

Food prep

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

We are looking to appoint an outstanding Cook with experience of food preparation, ideally in an environment serving children and young people.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference and be passionate about inclusion.

Main duties

To prepare and cook all academy meals efficiently and in a timely manner, and maintain a clean, well maintained and stocked kitchen.
To provide well balanced meals and nutritional menu choices.
Promote pupils' independence, self-esteem and social inclusion.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

Wave Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 2020 & 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered protected and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

About the Academy

Nine Maidens academy mainly supports the pupils from the Camborne, Redruth area and the Lizard peninsula.

It is based near the village of Four Lanes and surrounded by rolling countryside. Nine Maidens is split into a secondary department and a primary department. Each pupil's programme is individualised and work is set at appropriate levels enabling all pupils to access the curriculum. It is one of the few academies in the country to be awarded the Dyslexia Friendly Schools Quality Mark and takes pride in the intervention programmes offered.

Outdoor Learning is another unique strength of the academy which gives the pupils opportunities to learn in a creative manner away from the classroom. Pupils consider Nine Maidens to be a safe place to learn and that every day is a fresh start.

Wave Trust

What we believe and what we do

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's child and adolescent mental health unit 'Sowenna') and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.

Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.

We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.

Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils' families, schools and other agencies.

Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Benefits