Catering Assistant

Career Opportunities

Several new opportunities exist for committed people to join a forward looking school and a dynamic community, to promote our drive for healthy eating in support of the school’s focus on Health Related Fitness. This offers the chance to work alongside the Head of Catering who aims to be inventive with menus, building and promoting a new team and a high calibre catering operation. Initially part time 10-30 hours per week with flexible working patterns.

You will be involved with all areas of school catering to work in line with the food service and food quality expected and set up by the Head of Catering at Coombe Wood School; to help deliver high standards to both students and staff to deliver taste, freshness, value for money and variety. You will join our catering team which will comprise five friendly, ambitious, hard-working assistants.

Coombe Wood School, one of four schools in Folio Education Trust opens this September with 180 Y7 students. The new Head and staff team have been appointed, many of the latter taking up their roles in September, and all will work in the new temporary buildings near Lloyd Park. Your role will predominantly be based at Coombe Wood School to ensure delivery of excellent food to the new Coombe Wood community. In the first term the hours will be flexible while the demands of the food service provision are established, with a review to set structured contracts for Jan 2019.

Cheerful, hard working applicants who can demonstrate flexibility, be resilient, thrive on variety and enjoy a challenge will be welcomed to the team at Coombe Wood School! Our Catering Assistants will need to communicate well, demonstrate some IT skills and grasp the concept of value for money. Food Hygiene, safety or First Aid qualifications would be an advantage, but not essential as necessary training will be arranged. If you have a keen interest in food and work with calm efficiency, then please apply through the application process outlined below. 

Teamwork 

By becoming part of the team at Coombe Wood School, the ethos derives from the theoretical and practical nature of sport with TEAMWORK, RESPECT, ENJOYMENT, DISCIPLINE and SPORTSMANSHIP as its core values. All staff are expected to demonstrate and support this in their everyday work. Coombe Wood School teaching and non-teaching staff will work closely together across many different areas of the school to ensure the best possible learning experiences for our students.

Coombe Wood School is part of Folio Education Trust: http://www.folio-education.co.uk/. 

The Sixth Form will open in September 2020 by which time it is intended the permanent building will be fully operational. The school will grow into an 8-form entry school (NOR 1680) including 480 in the Sixth Form; an increasing number of pastoral and curriculum responsibilities will be on offer.

Location

This is a new secondary fully-inclusive co-educational school, serving the communities of South and Central Croydon, established to meet an urgent rising local demand. Initially housed in temporary accommodation, the proposed site for the ‘new build’ school is opposite Lloyd Park in South Croydon, with an excellent Tramlink service to and from East Croydon station (just 5 minutes journey-time away) and a short walk from several bus routes. Over £35 million is to be invested in building a state-of-the-art school which will include enhanced sports facilities, comprising a competition-sized sports hall, a full-size 3G artificial floodlit surface and aspirations to include a closed circuit cycle track (CRC) and 8-lane floodlit athletics track.

Benefits:

· Support to create and establish     healthy school meals

· Chance to help build the new     catering team

· Outstanding brand new facilities     in the near future

· Free use of sports amenities for     staff and their families

· LGPS (Pension Scheme)

Application procedure

Please download the candidate pack including the Job Description, our application form or visit http://www.cws-croydon.co.uk/Career-Opportunities Please note that to comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines CVs cannot be accepted as a valid form of application. The completed forms should be emailed to careers@cws-croydon.co.uk

If you have any queries please about the role please contact Mr Kitchen, 07825 152132, rkitchen@foliotrust.uk or for queries about the recruitment process contact Folio’s HR Manager, Mrs J Baker, careers@cws-croydon.co.uk

Closing Date: Monday 6th August

Interviews: Tuesday 14th August 

(If you apply we will assume you can attend that day, please notify us if this is an issue)

Folio Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The recruitment process will include an enhanced DBS check, medical screening, confirmation of right to work in the UK and all other pre-employment checks in line with safer recruitment requirements.