School Cook

East Park is… Recruiting

East Park, a Grant Aided Special School in Glasgow, is a leading provider of specialist day and residential education services for children with complex needs, including Autism.

Position overview

We are looking for a School Cook to work with us to provide East Park with a high standard of catering service, which is efficient, cost effective and complies with Health and Safety and Environmental requirements.

Benefits of joining East Park:

  • School term time
  • Competitive salary – £13.76 per hour (pro rata on term time basis)
  • Healthcare Cash Plan

Key Responsibilities

  • Undertake food purchase and safe storage of stock
  • Effectively control stock, costs, and quality of catering supplies within the school kitchen
  • Dealing with the catering invoices and passing these onto the Finance department for payment
  • To ensure all the domestic duties in the catering areas are carried out to the highest standard
  • Prepare and provide meals which comply with the principles of nutrition, health and safety and environmental health, and to prepare and provide food for special functions as and when required

The Small Print

Please note CVs will not be accepted as part of your application.

East Park is an Equal Opportunities Employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

A copy of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy is available on request.

A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Enhanced Disclosure is required for all East Park posts.

If you have an additional communication support need and would like to request an application form, job description or any other information in audio format, large print or with easy read formatting tailored to your needs please e-mail recruitment@eastpark.org.uk and we would be happy to help.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You can download a copy of the Job Description

ONLINE APPLICATION FORM

You can download an application form here.  Please ‘Save As’ the completed form to your device then e-mail it to recruitment@eastpark.org.uk.

If you are working on a mobile device or tablet, please click here for our online application form.

Please note that you cannot save the online version of the application form and return to finish it later.

APPLICATION GUIDANCE

Guidance on what information we require on our application forms can be downloaded here.

CLOSING DATE

Friday 14th March 2025 at 12noon

FURTHER INFORMATION

Lisa Howitt, Business and IT Support Officer

Mhairi Boyle, HR Officer

recruitment@eastpark.org.uk

Tel:  0141 946 2050