Food Technician
Thurstable School
Essex
- £12,103 per year
- New
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Local Government Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2024
- Apply by:
- 31 July 2024
Job overview
Hours 23 hours per week. These vary on a daily basis in line with the Food timetable. Term time only.
Actual Salary: £12103
Thurstable School is a dynamic educational environment dedicated to providing exceptional learning experiences for our students. We are seeking a dedicated and efficient Food Technician to join our team and contribute to the smooth operation of our Food Technology Department.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lesson Preparation: Ensure the efficient preparation and organisation of lesson materials, including weighing out ingredients for practical lessons and providing necessary equipment to the class.
- Classroom Support: Assist teaching staff and pupils during lessons and help maintain displays within the department.
- Practical Demonstrations:Provide practical demonstrations of recipes as needed.
- Stock Management: Maintain appropriate stocks in liaison with the Head of Department, including weekly shopping, stock rotation, and ensuring value for money.
- Cleaning and Maintenance: Keep washing up to date, replace linen, clean up after lessons, and ensure rooms are maintained in a clean and tidy manner.
- Administrative Support: Provide administrative support including typing, photocopying, and laminating.
- Equipment Maintenance:Regularly inspect department equipment, arrange repairs and cleaning in liaison with the Site Manager, and manage testing of electrical equipment.
- Financial Management: Order supplies and equipment, raise purchase orders, check invoices, and maintain accurate financial records.
- Event Organisation: Assist in organising events such as the Super Chef competition.
- Health and Safety: Ensure the application of Health and Safety procedures and raise awareness of Health & Safety issues within the department.
Key Requirements
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency in administrative tasks such as typing, photocopying, and laminating.
- Basic knowledge of Health and Safety procedures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in stock management and financial record-keeping.
- Ability to provide practical demonstrations and support during lessons.
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about supporting educational activities and ensuring the smooth operation of our department, we would love to hear from you.
Join us at Thurstable School and play a vital role in enhancing our students' learning experience!
All posts are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.
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About Thurstable School
THE SCHOOL
A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.
We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.
In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.
We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.
Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.
We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.
OUR VALUES
Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.
These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.
We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.
We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.
ASPIRE
We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places
- We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible
- We pursue excellence and seek recognition
- We take risks and love learning
- We are curious and ask questions
RESPECT
We respect ourselves, others and the environment
- We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times
- We are on time and we have the right equipment
- We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated
- We always follow instructions: first time, every time
- We are kind
ENDEAVOUR
We work hard to achieve success
- We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously
- We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up
- We represent the school and participate fully in school life
- We support others to achieve
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