Kitchen Assistant Concordia School Kitchen

Borough of Havering; Romford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority catering service in Romford is looking for a Kitchen Assistant to support food preparation and service in schools. The position requires 10 hours of work per week during term time. Candidates should have culinary experience, food handling skills, and the ability to support the kitchen supervisor when necessary. This is a full-time role with responsibilities that include preparing and serving food in accordance with council guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in culinary services and food handling.
• Ability to prepare and serve food in accordance with guidelines.
• Experience in a kitchen environment, supporting meals for clients.

Responsibilities

• Prepare simple cooking and the serving of food and beverages.
• Support the kitchen supervisor in all aspects of food service.
• Assume responsibility for food service in the supervisor’s absence.

Skills

Culinary Experience

Food Handling

Restaurant Experience

Food Preparation Experience

Food Service

Kitchen Experience

Hospitality Experience

Basic Math

Food Safety Experience

Retail Sales

Cooking

Sanitation

Job description

Description

About us:

HES Catering Services are the Local Authority provider of school meals for the London Borough of Havering working in partnership with local schools and academies to provide award winning meals and services.

We are extremely proud in supplying a wide range of high quality catering services to the majority of schools within the borough. We also have partnerships with other schools outside of Havering and offer bespoke solutions and assistance to individual schools and businesses which have their own In‑House catering teams.

HES Catering on‑going success is very straightforward. We have amazing colleagues throughout all of our sites bursting with experience who carefully prepare healthy, fresh, vibrant & tasty meals with the highest quality produce for our wonderful clients. We serve over 15,000 meals per day in our schools.

About the job:

Kitchen Assistant Concordia School Kitchen

The role has entry step Grade 1:

• 6145
• 1 Hours per week term time only Plus 4 cleaning days during the School Holidays.

To undertake the preparation simple cooking and the serving of food and beverages in accordance with the Councils contractual arrangements.

To support the kitchen supervisor in all aspects of the food service and to assume responsibility for the food service in the supervisor’s absence.

About you:

• The post holder reports to : Cook Supervisor or Higher Graded Operative
• The post holder has no direct staffing responsibilities
• The post holder will be required to work : As defined on Job Profile
• Hours of work : 10 hours per week

For any further information and / or an informal discussion about the role please contact

Closing date Friday 3rd October 25

Additional Information:

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Key Skills:

• Culinary Experience
• Food Handling
• Restaurant Experience
• Food Preparation Experience
• Food Service
• Kitchen Experience
• Hospitality Experience
• Basic Math
• Food Safety Experience
• Retail Sales
• Cooking
• Sanitation

Employment Type:

Full‑Time

Experience:

years

Vacancy:

1