£9,794 per annum

Part Time, Permanent

6th January 2025

13 December 2024

Part time: 17.50 hours per week/Permanent
Salary Scale: Grade 16. Pt. 2
Actual Salary: £9,794 per annum
Closing date: Friday 13th December 2024
Starting: 6th January 2025
We have a vacancy for a Catering Assistant to join our excellent catering Team, working from 10.45AM to 2.15PM term time plus INSET days (39 weeks). This is a varied and interesting position that offers the opportunity to assist in the preparation of hot and cold meals for students and staff and our feeder primary schools, serve in the Servery at break and lunch times and help keep the kitchen clean and tidy and hygienic following the guidance of the Food Standards Agency.
We are looking for outstanding individuals who will relish the opportunity to:

• Work with a friendly team in a busy and fast paced catering environment
• Assist with the preparation of meal ingredients, which includes washing, cleaning, peeling, cutting, and chopping fruit, vegetables, poultry, and meat to a high standard following Food Standards Agency guidance and practices
• Assist in the servery, taking money and ipay transactions for staff and students
• Keep up to date with current relevant legal requirements and food safety regulations

You are likely to be someone who:

• Is reliable and self-motivated with a responsive and reflective approach to work
• Has previous experience in catering and industrial kitchen environments (or relative experience)
• Has Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualification (or be willing to train)
• Has COSHH and Manual Handling qualifications (or be willing to train)
• Understands the working of The Children’s Food Trust and promotes healthy eating options for children
• Understands food allergens and safe food handling practices
• Has some flexibility to cover staff absences and occasionally work additional hours where required
• Can offer excellent communication and interpersonal skills, working within a busy team

Wadham School can offer you:

• An additional opportunity to increase hours and join the Cleaning Team until 5.30PM daily.
• An opportunity to work in a Level 5 Hygiene rated establishment with a highly motivated team
• Part time hours that suit a busy family life, working term time only (plus INSET days)
• Onsite parking (on a first come – first served basis)
• Training and CPD in Catering, Health & Safety and Safeguarding, with options for other courses through TES online training
• Voluntary pension scheme through Somerset Council
• Fulfilment, in knowing that you matter, and the work you do makes a positive difference to the lives you touch

Visits to the school or an informal talk are warmly encouraged.
or telephone 01460 270127 to discuss.

About Wadham School
Wadham School is a mixed comprehensive, Church of England secondary school in the town of Crewkerne in South Somerset. It is a voluntary controlled state school under the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
In September 2022 the school increased in size with the addition of pupils from Years 7 and 8 as part of the local area reform. The school is now a thriving 11-18 secondary school with a Sixth Form.
Headteacher
Richard Burgas
Values and Vision
“Life in all its fullness.” John 10:10
We believe that everyone deserves to experience life in all its fullness and should be given the opportunities and support to do so — this is what makes our job as educators so fulfilling.
If our mission is to ensure that time spent at Wadham school will enable our students to grow into confident, knowledgeable and caring citizens, ready to cope with the demands that life will throw at them, then our vision is simply:
“To ensure our students go on to experience love, fulfilment and community in an ever-changing world, as a result of exceptional school provision, equally weighted between outstanding academic achievement and individual personal development.”