Job Description

School Cook - Portsmouth - 25 hours per week

Academics are looking for an experienced School Cook who is immediately available for work/January 2025 to work in a busy school kitchen in Portsmouth!

This is an on-going assignment working approximately 25 hours per week/5 per day during term-time (39 weeks of the year). Pay varies on experience from 12.82 - 14 per hour. This is ideally suited to someone living in the Portsmouth area.

As a School Cook, you will be responsible for:

• Providing cooked meals for pupils that are both nutritional and appetising
• Ensuring the Kitchen is functional and clean to prepare food daily
• Implementing the schools Lunchtime and Behaviour policies, ensuring the security, safety, welfare and good conduct of pupils during the midday break.
• Promoting the development of the physical and mental well-being of pupils as directed by a teacher.

Key Accountabilities:

• To ensure that a nutritional menu is followed
• To fully comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 etc, the schools Health and Safety Policy and all locally agreed safe methods of work
• To work with colleagues to achieve service plan objectives and targets

Principal Responsibilities/Duties for School Cook:

• To organise and arrange deliveries of all food products to ensure that stock is always readily available to deliver the menu choice for the day
• To follow and adhere to all menu and recipes provided
• To follow the food hygiene guidelines and complete all required documentation, daily/weekly etc
• To ensure that all food is cooked, prepared and service in-line with the company standards
• To always keep the kitchen area in a clean and tidy state.
• To report any structural / Health and Safety issues on iAM compliant and if urgent directly to the Site Lead
• To provide a friendly, efficient and hygienic service to all pupils.
• To ensure that pupils are given a prompt and efficient service, and expectations are consistently exceeded.
• To be pupil focused at all times, by being visible during service periods, approachable and quick to exceed expectations in fulfilling pupil needs.
• To ensure that all bookwork is completed in a timely manner: accurately and efficiently in line with the SFBB guidelines.
• To project a willing and helpful attitude to pupils; to seek the appropriate knowledge of food items provided through out catering areas and to keep areas and service counters clean and fully stocked.
• To co-operate with all team members and undertake duties in the kitchen / service areas as requested to ensure an efficient and effective service is always delivered.
• To attend food safety, health and safety and environmental training courses as required.
• To rigorously follow the unit cleaning schedules.

If you are a School Cook living in Portsmouth and the above sounds of interest to you, please apply!