Part Time Catering Assistant

Part Time Catering Assistant

Location: Aurora Woodlands, Darwen

Contract Type: Part-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 20 hours per week - Monday to Friday 9am - 1pm.  Term Time Only

Salary: £11.72 to £11.93 p/hr / Actual annual salary £10,470.65 to £10,658.26 depending on experience

The Aurora Group 

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.  Aurora Woodlands School is an independent day school in Lancashire providing specialist education for young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties (SEMH).

The main purpose of the role: 

As a Catering Assistant, you will support the School Cook in preparing and serving meals for students and staff and maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the kitchen area. 

Key duties: 

• Supporting the Cook in meal preparation.
• Keeping the kitchen environment clean and tidy at all times, including washing all kitchen & catering equipment, surfaces and floors.
• Unloading of food and beverage deliveries as required.
• Food storage in accordance with outlined standards.
• Delivering and serving of food as required.
• Upholding the highest standards of Food Handling & Hygiene 

Full job description is available to view here: Catering Assistant JD WDS.docx

Experience and Qualifications: 

• Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety (Catering) essential.
• Ability to work well in a team
• knowledge of health and safety legislation (including COSHH regulations, manual handling, and food hygiene procedures) and requirements in relation to food preparation.
• Knowledge of Natasha’s Law.
• Good standards of literacy, numeracy, written and verbal communication.
• Proven ability to prioritise tasks and work flexibly.
• Ability to work under pressure.

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support.  We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further.  Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are.  You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more.  You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations.  We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills.  You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.  If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

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.