Chef
Ardingly College Senior
West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- £22,942 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 10 December 2019
Job overview
Stop what you are doing and ask yourself the following questions.
Are you fed up working split shifts? Do you want at least a couple of weekends off a month? Do you want the whole of Christmas and New year off? Would you like to finish work at 7pm? Want to work with fresh ingredients and be given the room and opportunity to develop your skills? Want to work for an employer that embraces training and growth and encourages all chefs to create new ideas? Would you like to work at a venue that looks like Hogwarts?
If you have answered yes to these questions, you need to come to Ardingly College.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and hardworking Chef to join our active and vibrant team.
Ardingly College is no ordinary school. As well as core meals made for the students and staff, you will be given plenty of opportunities to create dishes for fine dining events, from 10 people to 400 people. The College also runs themed days and events which give our Chefs the opportunity to showcase their creative flair and be involved in learning new cooking techniques to create authentic dishes.
The catering department is award winning and always maintains its 5 out of 5 for scores on the doors.
The post holder will assist in the creation of new dishes and the production and service of food, while maintaining correct levels of Food Safety and Health and Safety. The ability to be innovative and creative in your cooking is key for this role.
Previous experience of working in a busy kitchen, producing meals with fresh ingredients is essential. A CIEH Food Safety Level 2 certificate or equivalent and 706/1, 706/2 or NVQ 2 Chef qualifications are required.
The hours for this role are 40 hours per week, 5 days out of 7, for 52 weeks per year. Shifts are 8.5 hours working 6.30am-3pm or 10.30am-7pm on a rota basis. Flexibility to work major functions is also required.
The salary is £22,942 per annum.
For a full job description and to apply online please visit our website www.ardingly.com/vacancies. If you have any questions or require further information, please contact HR on 01444 893059 or email recruitment@ardingly.com.
Closing date: Tuesday 10th December 2019, although applications will be considered upon receipt.
Interviews will be scheduled as suitable applications are received.
Ardingly College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 2-18, a member of the HMC and a school of the Woodard Corporation. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are required to undertake child protection screening appropriate to the post including enhanced DBS checks.
About Ardingly College Senior
Ardingly College is a successful and modern co-educational school in a beautiful and traditional school setting in West Sussex.
The Prep School has over 200 pupils from Reception to Year 6, as well as a Nursery. Reception and KS1 are based in the Farmhouse and Years 3–6 in the main school building, School House. The Prep School lives and breathes the values of Shaping My World, through which primary-aged children learn to explore the world around them in ways that are adventurous, curious, generous, and ingenious.
The Senior School has over 800 students from 11 to 18, 300 of whom are boarders. The school puts the values of Collaboration, Compassion, Engagement and Resilience at the heart of its education and strives to help its students to become ready for the next stage of their lives beyond school in a programme known as World Ready. Students are drawn from the South-East and London as well as abroad, and a modest but growing endowment supports a bursary programme for talented students with limited financial means. In recent years, the College has educated half a dozen Ukrainian and Afghan refugee children free of charge.
The wellbeing and welfare of our students is paramount, with a strong emphasis on pastoral support provided through house staff, the Health & Wellbeing Centre, the Chaplain, the DSL and the Mental Health Lead. In the most recent ISI inspection of educational quality in 2018, the College was judged excellent for both student achievement and personal development, and in 2021, the College passed all elements of the Regulatory Compliance Inspection.
The curriculum is designed to be broad and stimulating, with over 25 subjects offered and a choice of A Level, IB Diploma or BTEC courses in the Sixth Form. Academic results are high and have been on an upward trajectory since 2015. Results in 2023 surpassed those achieved by the pre-pandemic 2019 cohort, with 90% of Sixth Form candidates achieving grades between A* and B at A Level, or 7–5 in the IB Diploma. At GCSE, two-thirds achieved between grades 9 and 7, with 48% scoring all 9s and 8s. All except a small handful of leavers progress to one of their top choices of university, with between five and eight each year to Oxbridge.
The College offers an outstanding range of co-curricular activities based on inclusive participation as well as excellence. In sports, students compete successfully at local, regional, and national levels in the main sports of football, hockey, swimming, netball, cricket, and athletics. Music, Art, Drama and Dance are equally thriving, with exciting programme of concerts, performances and exhibitions. In this, as in all ways, the school aims to live up to one of its mantras that nobody can excel in everything, but everyone can excel in something.
Local and global partnerships are integral to the College’s mission. Every week, hundreds of Ardingly pupils participate in an active voluntary service programme with the local community and primary schools, and the College sustains a STEM partnership with Ifield Community College, which was awarded the TES STEM project of the year in 2020. Internationally, the College opened its first overseas school in China in 2020 and is currently planning towards further schools in Kazakhstan and other geographies.
Campus facilities are excellent, with considerable recent investment in the College campus bringing it up to the highest school standards. Recent additions include a new STEM faculty and upgrades to classrooms, as well as major refurbishments of boarding and day houses. A new café and dance studio were opened in 2021 and new Lower School and a third day boys’ house in 2022.
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