AddressFull Job Description
How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?
Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).
If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group – so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG!
Location: Waterloo Lodge School, Chorley, Lancashire
Salary: £18,576.00 per annum
Hours: 26 hours per week, Monday - Thursday 08:00-13:30 Friday 08:00-12:00
Contract: Permanent, Term time only
Interview date: 26th March 2024
Can you enrich the lives of young people as a School Cook?
We are looking for a responsible, caring School Cook to join our fantastic team at Waterloo Lodge School in Chorley. As School Cook, you will help support our pupils and young people in their daily lives, ensuring they are well fed, comfortable, and healthy.
This is a great opportunity to work as part of a team committed to helping pupils with varied and complex needs.
About the role
Our School Cooks carry out an essential and role to provide meals required by the pupils and young people in our care. When it comes to looking after our pupils, we never settle for second best. We are looking for a School Cook, who shares our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK, to be happy and to make their way in the world.
Essential
- City & Guilds or NVQ in Catering
- Experience of working in the catering industry
- Good standard of personal hygiene
- Good catering presentation skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Flexible approach to working
- Ability to build relationships with pupils & young people
- Resilience
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Willing to undertake training
- Ability to prioritise tasks
Desirable
- Menu Planning Skills
- Ability to work within a budge
- Awareness of Health and Safety
- Driving Licence
About us
Waterloo Lodge is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18, catering for pupils with a wide range of needs in Lancashire, Manchester and surrounding areas. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.
We pride ourselves in steering pupils in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them academically and socially, to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
Why join Options Autism?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.
- You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy.
