Employer: The Aurora Group
Salary:
Date Added: 12/12/2023
Overview and Responsibilities
Assistant Cook – Aurora Boveridge
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Hourly Rate: £11.30 – £12.20
Annual Salary: £20,109.84 – £21,798.00 (FTE £23,504.00 – £25,376.00)
Hours: 40 hours a week (8 hours per day) – some flexibility on hours – Term time only
At Aurora Boveridge College, we prepare our students for adult life, through person-centred academic and vocational study programmes leading to independent living with employment or further study. By working together, we increase resilience, confidence, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and well-being: the cornerstones on which strong and successful long-term futures are built.
The main purpose of the role:
Our support service teams are an essential pillar in enabling our children and young adults to achieve their full potential.
The role of the Assistant Cook is to prepare, cook and present home cooked food from scratch using fresh ingredients where possible and assisting the Cook with menu planning, to provide nutritionally balanced food, within budget.
With a strong emphasis on Health & Safety, you’ll be expected to ensure that the catering areas are kept clean and tidy and in collaboration with the Cook, ensure that our food service is delivered in a professional, friendly and hygienic manner.
You will undertake tasks assigned to you regarding food preparation, cooking, cleaning, serving, and completion of Health and Safety paperwork.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
- Relevant regulations and standards for the catering environment.
- Knowledge of learning disabilities and/or special needs insofar as they impact upon the support services to be provided including management of individual needs (health, social etc.) and challenging behaviours.
- Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
- Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
- An enthusiasm for cooking, no formal training required
- Special diets and allergens
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
Be part of our successful team and benefit from a generous package that includes:
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Perkbox – offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan – Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
If you are interested in this role, then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact
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.
#Reed FTE: £23,504.00 – £25,376.00
Application Deadline: 23/01/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0