Assistant Chef in Frome

Join Our Friendly Food & Beverage Team! We’re looking for a reliable, hard-working, and enthusiastic individual to join our team. In this vital role, you’ll help keep our kitchen running smoothly and ensure everyone enjoys a positive, seamless experience.

As part of our catering team, you’ll play a key role in maintaining clean, organised kitchen spaces and preparing crockery, cutlery, and meals to support busy service times. If you enjoy teamwork, take pride in your work, and want to contribute to a warm and welcoming dining environment, we’d love to hear from you.

What will you do?

• To prepare all types of food in line with kitchen requirements or to pack meals as needed.
• Operate within a team of permanent, part time and flexible staff in the unit, ensuring that the manufacturing service is successfully delivered consistently to the required standard on a daily basis.
• Assist in all aspects of the day to day duties in the kitchen and ensure that the required catering service is successfully delivered on a daily basis. This includes working as an effective team member.
• Participate in ensuring the smooth running of all operations.

Why should you apply?

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• O2 discounts
• NUS Card
• Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Access to multiple well-being programmes
• Cycle to work Schemes

What are we looking for?

• Understanding of food hygiene and kitchen health and safety
• The ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment
• Ability to follow strict instructions in a systematic and consistent manner
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

Further information

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks. Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.