School Chef

Pemberton St John’s

Church Street

Pemberton

Wigan

WN5 0DT

Salary: Grade 5, £14,366 - £15,896 per annum. £12.80 - £14.16 per hour

25 hours per week, term time plus 6 days working 39.20 weeks per year plus 14 hours staff engagement

Temporary until 14th June 2024 to cover Maternity leave

Your role:

The main duties will be to supervise the catering staff and catering operations and manage the kitchen and its resources to ensure a quality service is provided for the complete running of the catering services for the school. You will be handling cash handling, using a till, banking and cash reconciliation. You will be compliant with Health and Safety, Food safety, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and manual handling.

About you:

You will be a good cook who is passionate about the role and dedicated to providing the best service possible to staff, children and visitors to the school. You will have great customer care skills in order to deal with a range of people and will promote a professional image at all times, which is representative of the school and the service. You’ll be an advocate for the development and promotion of the service and will relish the opportunity to work with managers to maximise profitability wherever possible.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

Local Kitchen provide quality catering, caretaking, cleaning and services to Wigan schools and offer interesting, diverse and satisfying work to our large team of staff. We’ll give you everything you need in order to carry out your job including protective clothing. You’ll be given a full induction which includes food safety and health and safety training, and we’ll give you the opportunity to learn and develop further within the service

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.

For further information, please contact Maria Hawkins, Area Manager - m.hawkins@wigan.gov.uk

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£14,366

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