Chef - Cornerstone Academy Trust
- Multiple Locations
- Full Time
- starting at £23,200 per annum
Location: Exeter Based
Required to start as soon as possible.
Would you like to be part of a busy and modern kitchen leading a team to provide each day a high quality, freshly prepared hot dinner for the children and staff within an outstanding Primary School? If so, we are wishing to recruit a Chef to join the existing team of Chefs and the wider catering team who work across the schools.
We are looking for an experienced and qualified Chef who will deliver the unique and well-renowned family dining service that provides meals for Broadclyst, Westclyst, Monkerton, Yeo Valley and Clyst St Mary Primary Schools’ pupils. You will be supporting the Head Chef, Deputy Head Chef, and catering team to deliver an exciting menu which we design in house. We currently cater for over a one thousand pupils and staff daily, plus ad hoc visitors across the schools. A busy school kitchen will cook on average four hundred dinners each day. We also run a café for staff and parents that you will oversee.
The successful candidate will need to not only be a great chef but able to lead a team, be flexible, dependable, and creative. We wish to employ someone who enjoys good food and will embrace the school’s aim to deliver a ‘family dining’ experience, with nice, home cooked, seasonal food served to the table. Additionally, you will need to demonstrate skills in baking cakes and treats for the coffee shop service.
This is a permanent position post is Monday to Friday, for 45 hours per week for 40 weeks a year. The day begins at 8am and finishes at 5.30pm.
The actual salary will commence at £23,200 based on the hours and weeks above.
For more information about our dining service, please take a look at Cornerstone Dining Club.
As well as membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, we have enhanced staff pay and conditions through the provision of a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme, an electric car scheme, performance related pay progression and subsidised meals. The successful candidate will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to assist them in fulfilling their duties alongside the cooking.
Visits to the school are welcome by prior arrangement.
We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and 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 on the Ministry of Justice website:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for all our posts. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A job description and an application form can be obtained at Join Our Staff (tcat.education)
Please email completed documents to vacancy@tcat.education
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Job Details
- OrganisationOther Organisations
- Work LocationExeterDevon
- Reference
JS04767
- Occupational GroupManual (Caretaking/Cleaning/Driving/Catering/
- Salary Details
starting at £23,200 per annum
- Job TermPermanent
- Appointment TypeFull Time
- Hours
45 hours per week, 40 weeks a year
- Closing Date
08/06/2023
- DBS Check Required
Yes