School Cook - Part-time - Special Needs Position

Learning Opportunities, Deal

Ref:KCC886-6063-7S
Posted:25/04/2022
Pay:£9.50 - £11.50ph dependent on experience
Start Date:Immediate
App Close Date:27/05/2022 at 10:00
Interviews:ASAP

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Do you want to make a difference?

Are you looking for a new challenge?

As a Special Needs school we aim to provide delicious and healthy lunch time meals to our students aged 11-16 years who have a range of additional needs.

You will need to be enthusiastic, motivated, passionate about food and prepared to go the extra mile for our students. Experience of working in a catering environment, inventive and creative with menus ensuring minimum food wastage together with management of budgets is also required.

You will ideally have experience of working with young people and be a driver.

Working days are 9.30 – 2.30 Monday to Friday, term time only (39 weeks).

Specific training will be provided and a rewarding and challenging role awaits the right person. We encourage all of our employees to further their career development and we promote initiative and ambition.

Salary - £9.50 - £11.50 per hour depending on experience.

Start Date – ASAP

Interview date – ASAP

Visits to the school are encouraged. Please contact Simon (simong@learningopps.org) to arrange a convenient time.

Information about the school

Learning Opportunities is a small independent specialist school for students with a wide range of additional needs, including social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH), autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and moderate learning difficulties. We are registered to provide education for 36 students with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP), aged 10 to 16 years of age (Key Stages 2,3,4). All students have, for a variety of reasons, found it difficult to achieve their full potential in other settings. Often their schooling will have been chaotic and fragmented, resulting in them falling behind their peers academically, and as a result they relish the chance to succeed in our smaller and more personal setting.

At Learning Opportunities we pride ourselves in managing the wide ranging social, emotional, behavioural and educational needs of all our students, where they are supported within a consistent, caring and supportive environment. Our dedicated staff team, who have a range of expertise, are passionate about providing the best possible opportunities and outcomes for all of our students. Highly personalised programmes support students to develop the self-confidence to deal with the significant life changes and challenges they may encounter, and to become positive members of the school and wider community.

A key feature of what we do is teaching our students to take responsibility for their behaviour and its consequences. We work in partnership with parents, carers and other agencies to help students make positive choices and changes, which will serve them better in their future life. Many of our visitors comment on the positive ethos of the school – calm, focused and happy, where appropriate and positive relationships between staff and students are clearly evident.

Following a successful Ofsted inspection in October 2022 we are now looking for a member of staff to join the team who can take responsibility for leading the great work we already do and contribute to making our provision even better in the future.

Job Contact Information

Name:Simon Graydon
Address:Ringwould Road, Ringwould, Deal, Kent, CT14 8DW
Telephone: 07394 984289
Email: lesleyb@learningopps.org

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Cook Job Description and Person Spec