Chef Tutor

Overview and Responsibilities

Chef Tutor – Aurora Foxes

Location: Minehead, Somerset

Salary: £26,941.60 - £31,406.21 (FTE £29,120 - £33,945.60) Depending on experience and qualifications

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Term time plus additional days and training (42 weeks per year)

Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.

We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.

The main purpose of the role:

As one of our Chef Tutors your role is to plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate inspiring, engaging and individualised Food Preparation sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student.

Your role is to help achieve our mission which is to equip young adults with learning disabilities to find sustainable employment in the hospitality sector and to live independently.

Always promote a professional attitude and approach with students and learner support practitioners, to support students to develop the skills required to be 'work ready, life ready.

Key duties:

• Effectively and professionally plan, prepare and resource highly individualised sessions of the highest quality, including those sessions where you may be absent, according to the published scheme of work.
• Deliver professional, inspiring, and engaging sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student, and in which all students are motivated and engaged throughout. We expect every tutor to be fully always engaged in the session without exception.
• Plan and prepare robust and professional assessments and ensure that all tracking (including baselining, target setting and review) and reports associated with these are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner, and that any records are kept up to date.
• All tutors must be familiar with, and actively use the principles of RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement).
• Work professionally  and  collaboratively  with  all  colleagues  and  teams  across  the  Academy, including the Therapy team and House Managers, to analyse student performance and ensure that all students make progress commensurate with their ability.
• Where underachievement is identified appropriate  strategies  should  be  implemented  immediately  and      
• Where overachievement is identified, targets should be reviewed, and further challenges agreed within teams and set.
• Ensure that all students receive professional, timely and effective feedback, with appropriate strategies (next steps) to improve their performance, and that such discussions are evidenced through effective and professional record keeping (Evaluations, Tutorials, Reviews).
• Prepare, direct and lead Learning Support Practitioners (LSP) within your session, and to actively always promote a professional attitude and approach with the LSP. Ensure that LSPs (Learner Support Practitioner) contribute throughout the session.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team Adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• Level 2 in English & Maths
• City and Guilds (Or other recognised awarding body) Hospitality and Catering Level 2 or equivalent
• Level 3 desirable or willing to work towards
• Level 4 certificate in Education (desirable or willing to work towards)
• Experience of working in a hospitality catering setting.
• Experience in vocational education (desirable).
• Experience of working in a team setting.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Perk box
• Free parking

For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.