Mobile General Kitchen Assistant

Person Specification

Personal attributes

• Essential: To be able to work as part of a team (school team and kitchen team)
• Desirable: Self‑motivated, happy disposition

Qualifications and relevant training

• Essential:
  • Basic food hygiene or agreement to pass the course within 3 months of appointment.
  • Full driving licence.
  • Car owner and prepared to use own car for work (Business use on Car Insurance).
• Desirable:
  • Training in food production or food service skills.
  • Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid.
  • Training in selling skills.

Relevant experience

• Essential/Desirable: Experience of being employed in a food production environment.

Skills and specialist knowledge

• Essential/Desirable: Good interpersonal skills.
• Essential/Desirable: Good communication skills.

Language requirements

• Listening and Speaking – Entry: Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly. Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information.
• Reading and Understanding – Entry: Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e‑mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.
• Writing – Entry: Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Job Description

Purpose of the post: Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.

To go to kitchens at short notice to cover staff absences, assist the Cook in Charge in the preparation of simple food, food service, setting up and clearing the dining room, wash the equipment and clean the kitchen and dining room.

Responsibility for functions

• Equipment and main duties:
  • To work under the direction of the Cook in Charge or the Deputy.
  • To assist in the preparation of simple food and to serve the food.
  • Keep all the kitchen and dining room area clean, including the building fabric of the kitchen and the dining room when it is only used as a dining room.
  • When the dining room is used for more than one purpose, clean the floor, move every trace of food using a damp mop if necessary.
  • Carry out general kitchen duties including washing dishes, setting and clearing equipment and dining room furniture.
  • When there is no Assistant Cook, the General Kitchen Assistant will be in charge of the kitchen in the absence of the Cook in Charge at the appropriate pay grade.
  • Maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and wear suitable clean overalls.
• Compliance and management:
  • Comply with Gwynedd Council’s Health and Safety Policy and Food Safety Policy.
  • Have any other relevant duties following a reasonable request.
  • Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
  • Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
  • Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines and Data Protection legislation.
  • Commit to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s carbon footprint.
  • Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
  • Responsible for reporting any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.
• Special circumstances:
  • Occasional work to provide refreshment outside normal hours of work such as in service training days.
  • Occasional transport meals to another school and serve the food.