Role Responsibility

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve through lunch service, with a professional manner and efficiently.
• Keep the dining areas and serving counters clean and tidy during service and complete a full closedown following this.
• Help in any areas that require catering and assist with afternoon tea.
• Ensure that legal and school requirements are adhered to in respect of hygiene, and Health and Safety for all staff, visitors and customers.
• Ensure that all school standards, policies and procedures are maintained at all times, including but not limited to cleaning schedules and accurate timesheet recording.
• Ensure a high standard of personal hygiene, cleanliness and appearance is maintained at all times.
• Ensure you act in the interest of your own safety and the safety of others at all times.
• Demonstrate a professional, courteous and friendly attitude towards all staff and work colleagues at all times.
• Help with furniture moving as directed by the Head of Housekeeping or General Manager.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Undertake any reasonable task as directed by the Catering Management Team which may on occasions be outside the normal daily routine or tasks.
• Report all accidents / sickness following school procedures.
• Report promptly to the manager / supervisor any working hazards or sub-standard equipment that prevent the completion of any of the above and / or compromise safety.
• Communicate with the Catering Management Team any relevant feedback or information specific to the contract.
• Guard against pilferage, misuse or abuse of all company or client goods and equipment.
• Attend meetings and training courses as required for the role.

Site-specific duties:

• As this is a term-time only role, holidays may only be taken outside of term-time.
• Observe at all times Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures and to be aware of the correct reporting procedures in line with School Policy.
• Practice a high level of customer service with due consideration to the age of our customers.

The Ideal Candidate

Please refer to the attached person specification for further details.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Package Description

Required for: as soon as possible

Location: Great School (Dean's Yard)

Contract: permanent, part-time, term-time only

Salary: £13.15 per hour

Hours of work: 11am – 2:30pm, Monday to Friday. Free school lunches would also be provided.

The deadline for applications is 17th November 2023. Interviews will follow shortly after the closing date.

About the School

Working at Westminster

Westminster School is a busy, purposeful and vibrant place to be and an excellent workplace. The community is made up of 750 pupils, 120 teaching staff and 108 support staff.

Westminster School is friendly and welcoming, and all newcomers quickly become part of the rhythm of life here.

There is a real sense of community here as, being a boarding school many members of staff and pupils live on site and the School’s premises are very much treated as a home away from home. School life starts before breakfast and continues way beyond the working day; as a result, there is always a lively atmosphere in and around School and always someone to share a tea and biscuit with in the Common Room. Support staff as much as teaching staff are encouraged to embrace the School’s day-to-day activities, whether that be attending an evening concert or a morning service in the Abbey.

At Westminster we will always select the best candidate for every position. We do know, however, that we can only truly choose the best person on every occasion if a broad and diverse pool of candidates see the job advertised and are encouraged to apply.

As such, we continue to work on how our job roles are encountered, and particularly welcome applications from groups who have traditionally been underrepresented here.

Westminster School is for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. We hope you are encouraged to apply.

The School

Westminster School is a selective day and boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 and girls aged 16 to 18. There are approximately 360 boys in the Lower School (Years 9 to 11) and 400 boys and girls in the Upper School (Years 12 and 13). One quarter of the pupils board, and the School is structured and run as a boarding school, with an extended day and week and a strong House-based system of pastoral welfare, for boarding and day pupils alike.

Westminster is an ancient school, whose origins can be traced to a charity school established by the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey. Its continuous existence is certain from the early 14th century. Henry VIII personally ensured the School’s survival by statute and Elizabeth I, who confirmed royal patronage in 1560, is celebrated as the School’s foundress. Westminster is rare amongst long-established schools in remaining on its original site in the centre of London. Its proximity to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and the use of the Abbey for its chapel, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, account in part for its special atmosphere and outlook.

The School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence both in this country and internationally. Central to its academic ethos is the dialogue between teachers and their pupils, whether in the classroom or in tutorials, inspiring enjoyment of intellectual enquiry, debate and search for explanation and the development of skills of rational, independent thought well beyond any standard examination syllabus. The desired environment is happy, busy and purposeful; the pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged, with plenty of opportunities to develop initiatives and to articulate and defend their views, in line with the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the School’s Charter. That tradition is fully committed also to the nurture of each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies - and to the preparation of young people for fulfilled private and public lives beyond School.

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