Job Description

General Assistant

Grade A - 24,796 - 28,142 pro rata

Working 12.5 hours per week, term time only - 2.5 hours per day Monday to Friday

Woodgate Primary School, Lutley Grove, Birmingham, B32 3PN

Cityserve is the Birmingham City Council multi- award winning catering service for school meals providing fresh and nutritious food for school kitchen across the UK, healthy eating is a continuous theme throughout all of our menus and we are committed to the wellbeing of pupils. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a busy environment, delivers excellent customer service and is able motivate and support team members.

The Role

As a General Assistant, your responsibilities will include:


assisting in the preparation and cooking meals for pupils assisting with all aspects of the service assisting in keeping the kitchen clean & tidy, washing up sweeping and mopping assisting with setting up of dining room, putting out furniture willingness to attend training sessions classroom and online awareness of the pupils needs, dietary and allergen requirements
You will work collaboratively with managers and supervisors to ensure the first-class delivery of food in schools kitchens both in and outside of performance times.

Key Requirements

About You; Essential:

good people skills passion about food and customer service great team player good verbal and written communication skills Food Safety Level 2

Skills & experience

Desirable:

experience in a similar environment high standards and quality driven a 'can do' attitude

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Supporting Statement should outline how you meet the criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached.

and Person Specification

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.


We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.


For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk


A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.


Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements , before any employment offer can be confirmed.