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Posting date: 15 May 2025
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 03 June 2025
Location: Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 7AD
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 33ffc838-b6a3-4b65-b217-a988eeb4bb15

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a highly organised individual to help create, maintain and manage a safe learning environment for our young people. You will have a keen eye for detail to ensure our facilities are clean, safe and well maintained.

The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively problem solve and provide excellent customer service to our community.

You will have:

• Possess a City and Guilds 706/1 and 2 or NVQ catering equivalent (Level 1 and 2).
• Experience of preparing, cooking and serving food for large numbers, including the ability to scale recipes up and down to suit varying numbers
• Experience of ordering commodities, completing food costings, stock control, daily cash reconciliation and general kitchen administration duties.
• Awareness of Halal requirements for catering
• The ability to work unsupervised to produce nutritious, economical, well-presented meals of good quality.

What the school offers its staff

About Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School and Sixth Form College

Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High Schoo land Sixth Form College is a Muslim faith-based secondary school and sixth form for 11 to 18 year old girls, which welcomes pupils from all faiths and none. We are extremely proud to be one of the highest performing schools in the country, with the highest Progress 8 score nationally for our 2019 GCSE results. We have been graded as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in three consecutive inspections. Like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

We have an exemplary reputation for excellence in every aspect of school life. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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