The cook is required to cook food, create menus, and help manage the production and delivery of meals to provide for Jordanhill School’s very busy catering service, providing food to over 1000 pupils in primary and secondary daily.
This role involves ensuring compliance with legal and government regulations, policies, and procedures associated with current school food regulations – Food and Drink (Scotland) Regulations 2020 .
As the role also involves the operation of cooking equipment, good physical health and fitness is paramount due to the nature of the physical demands of the job. The chef forms part of the catering team in school and reports to the catering manager.
Working hours are 32.5 hours a week during the school session (39 weeks), Monday to Friday 7.30am - 2.30pm (negotiable). Working hours may be increased to 35 hours (negotiable).
Occasional variations to normal working hours will be required to accommodate school events in the evenings and some days working in the school holidays be be requested to prepare menus. These will be paid as additional hours and are negotiable.
Rate of Pay
The rate of pay for this role is £14.09 per hour. The salary for this 32.5 position is £21,375 per annum (full-time equivalent £28,575).
An application form and the and person specification can be downloaded from our website .
When completed, the application form should be sent by email to HR Officer, Pauline Cameron at recruitment@jordanhill.glasgow.sch.uk. Should you wish to discuss the role, please contact Miss Cameron by email or telephone: 0141 576 2500.
Closing date – Sunday 22nd June 2025. Successful applicants will be invited to interview early July.
Jordanhill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo a PVG (protection of vulnerable groups) disclosure check and have references taken up with current/previous employers.