School Kitchen Assistant

Working day/hours:

Monday to Tuesday 8.45am – 1.15pm;

Wednesday to Friday 9am – 1pm

5 days per week (21 hours per week)

Term time only – 37 weeks

Salary: Minimum wages £10.42 per hour

We are looking a Kitchen Assistant to join us as soon as possible to help our kitchen team produce nutritious meals to ensure our students’ needs are met. As a Kitchen Assistant you will assist in organising and preparing quality food under the supervision of the Cook/Chef, whilst maintaining high standards of cleanliness.

The main responsibilities of the Kitchen Assistant Role are:

• To work in the preparation of cold meals e.g. sandwiches and salads.
• To assist in the preparation, cooking and serving of meals to students
• To maintain cleanliness of kitchen and equipment, ensuring the premises are always cleaned to the highest standard, following the requirements of the cleaning schedule.
• To monitor deliveries and dispatches of foods.
• To wash up after meals, ensuring all crockery and equipment are cleaned and stored appropriately.
• Clean the kitchen area if necessary

About you

• Experience in the catering services is beneficial although not essential.
• Possess effective verbal communication skills
• Food handling course qualification desirable
• To ensure that all kitchen equipment and kitchen areas are cleaned according to the cleaning schedules.
• To ensure statutory and School Health and Safety Regulations are adhered to.
• To ensure correct storage of all dry and perishable cook chill goods as soon as possible after receipt and checking.
• To ensure the correct, safe storage of cleaning materials.
• To ensure that all pots, pans, cooking utensils and service counter containers are cleaned to the required standards and correctly stored after cleaning.
• Carry out any other reasonable instructions given by the Head Chef

If you are interested in applying please download an application form and job description from our school website at www.kdgb.miet.uk.You can also contact our Bursar (Eunice Liew) by email on bursar@kdgb.miet.uk for further details.

Letter of application to be addressed to Mrs Mohamed, the Executive Head.

Completed Applications should be returned with a supporting statement (maximum 2 A4 pages) to the Bursar via email at bursar@kdgb.miet.uk

Deadline of this application: 6 October 2023

Shortlisting by: 9 October 2023

Interview to be held between 11 October 2023 to 13 October 2023

Please note: if you have not been contacted regarding an interview within two weeks of the closing date, please take it that unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.

Safeguarding Recruitment Statement:

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including checks with past employers. 

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to also carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who confirm they will attend an interview. 

All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant Passport / work permit where necessary. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information and a Certificate of Good Conduct /Police Clearance from the country abroad you worked/ stayed at, in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of all the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references. 

This post will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 [exceptions] Order 1975 provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions and cautions are considered protected. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and, if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found in ‘Changes to the Criminal Records System November 2020.docx Page 2’ on the Ministry of Justice Website and the websites of charities NACRO and UNLOCK.

At the shortlisting stage candidates will be required to complete a self- declaration form regarding their criminal record (unless ‘protected’) and will also be required to submit any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Any such information will be treated in strictest confidence and used only in consideration of the suitability of the post. Criminal convictions will not automatically exclude you from being considered unless they fall within the threshold of being relevant and unsuitability, and will be considered on a case by case basis or as defined by the Department for Education.    

It is an offence to apply for a post engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from working with children.

We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

Please note we will only contact shortlisted applicants.