General Kitchen Assistant
Heartlands High School
Wood green
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- Expired
- Salary:
- £11.10 per hour
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 2nd September 2019
- Apply by:
- 15 July 2019
Job overview
General Kitchen Assistant
Closing Date: 10 a.m. on Monday 15th July 2019
Salary: £11.10 per hour
Location: Haringey
Contract type: 20 – 40 hours per week (pro-rata), Term Time only
(Flexible between 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. - 40 weeks a year. There is also an expectation that shifts should be altered to oversee service in the evenings and weekends for occasional school events.)
Contract term: Permanent / September 2019
Heartlands High School is a new mixed comprehensive 11-16 school that opened in September 2010. Popular and oversubscribed within the local community the school will take 1080 students. Our recent Ofsted described the school as a “Leaders have been able to cultivate an ethos of focusing on the needs of individual pupils. Pupils irrespective of their starting points, receive a range of support. Many pupils make very good progress.’’ (Ofsted 2016)
We are looking to appoint personable, friendly and confident individual to join our friendly in-house catering team. As a kitchen Assistant, you would be expected to carry out food preparation as well as cleaning the kitchen. You would follow strict food hygiene and school’s health and safety policy.
The successful candidate will also have:
• A good standard of general education
• To be able to communicate.
• Previous experience of working within a school /commercial catering environment and have a good level of cooking and food preparation.
• To assist in the serving and clearing down of all food, beverages and associated utensils as required.
• To co-operate with all catering staff and undertake such duties in the kitchen/service areas as requested to ensure an efficient and effective service is delivered at all times.
• To undertake supervised food preparation tasks as required.
For further information please contact our HR department at HR@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk. Application packs can be downloaded from the school website: www.heartlands.haringey.sch.uk
Closing date 10 a.m. on Monday 15th July 2019. Interviews will be held in the same week.
Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the School.
We encourage applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of our students. The successful applicant will therefore be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
Please click on the 'Quick Apply' button below to submit your application today.
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About Heartlands High School
Our amazing school is looking for people with high aspirations, the desire to achieve and succeed – both for themselves and the students, but also for the community and their colleagues. This means we’re looking for creative thinkers, inspiring individuals and team players.
Part of SEARCH Education Trust, Heartlands High School is located within Wood Green, Haringey. We opened as a new school in September 2010 in state-of–the-art facilities. We are now oversubscribed and a first choice school for parents and students in the local community. Our intake is diverse and is a real reflection of the community that we serve. Our aspirations for this community are high and we want our students to have access to the very best education.
Our vision for the school is simple. We want our students to obtain a commitment to learning through achieving outstanding learning, outstanding partnerships and an outstanding ethos. We expect our students to achieve higher than the national average results and we support them in getting there.
The ethos within the school is consistently recognized as a strength, supported through SEARCH. We teach our students that school matters, that the effort is essential, that achievement will carry them forward, that active citizenship matters and that none of this can be achieved without the highest of aspirations.
SEARCH staff are rewarded through access to a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to;
- Continuous professional development
- Teacher training programme (Early Career Teacher/Teach First /Schools Direct /Apprentice)
- Leadership programmes
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Tech Scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- GP helpline service
- Season ticket loans
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits/ discounts platform
- Health and Wellbeing events/ resources
- Access to onsite fitness sessions
- Flexible working options
- Family Friendly Policies
- Employer pension contribution
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Support and development:
At Heartlands, we use School IP to track and support training and ongoing CPD. Depending on your need and level of experience, you will be placed on a training pathway.
The CPD plan is released in September each year and includes a range of internal training sessions before and after school as well as on inset days.
Examples of supported external training:
• NPQSL
• NPQML
• NPQH
• Outstanding Teacher Programme
• Developing Teacher Programme
• Exam Moderation Training.
Please review our website and twitter feed for all the latest news and views from HHS including our relevant policies including Safeguarding and child protection as well as data and privacy statements https://heartlands.haringey.sch.uk/about-us/policies/
Heartlands High School, Part of SEARCH Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.
NOTE: It is an offence to apply for a role if the person is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. (Legislation.gov.uk - section 7(1)(a) of the SVGA 2006)
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