This is not your average catering job. It is a great chance to put your catering qualifications and skills into practice and make an impact far beyond the kitchen.

As part of the prison’s catering team, you’ll be working in a professional industrial kitchen environment, with a good salary, pension and Civil Service benefits including apprenticeship opportunities ‘earn while you learn’. Unlike traditional restaurant jobs, you won’t have to work late into the evening.

You’ll oversee the work of offenders to prepare and cook quality, nutritional meals for the entire prison. Plus, you’ll play your part in helping them turn their lives around - supporting them to learn new skills and work towards gaining qualifications to increase their chances of employment and reduce their likelihood of reoffending when they leave prison.

The following salary details are for a full-time 37 hour week. Please note that this is a part-time roll of 18.5 hours per week so the salary will be pro rata.

Hours and salary

Salary minimum £28,122

Salary maximum £29,611

You will work a 37-hour week Monday to Friday, core day hours only.

Qualifications and experience

Level 2 certificate in food production within hospitality and catering or equivalent
Food hygiene certificate at Level 2

In addition, you must be:

Familiar with all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations for working in a kitchen
Able to demonstrate competency within an industrial kitchen environment
Able to speak with confidence in English

Please note refresher training in food safety (HACCP) should be completed at three-year intervals.

Tips for applying

You will need to provide an anonymised CV and answer questions which outline your past experience.

You will also need to answer specific ‘behavioural’ questions. We will ask you how you would react in your job.

Behaviours:

Developing self and others
Managing a quality service
Communicating and influencing
Making effective decisions
Working together

If your application is successful, you will need to undergo and clear pre-employment checks. This will include His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Enhanced Level 2 vetting, and due to the security status of the establishment Counter-Terrorism Check (CTC vetting) is also required. Proof that you have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years is needed to complete the CTC vetting process. The residency requirements refer to the period immediately before an application is made, and not any other three-year period, or any other accumulation of time spent in the UK.

If you have been out of the country for a significant period of time (usually up to one year) and maintained your UK residency you may still be considered for vetting clearance. For example:

spent a significant period of time overseas without returning to the UK, but intend to return in the future
taken a gap year before or following university
travelled for a year
spent time overseas visiting family

This is not an exhaustive list.

Candidates must be able to provide correct and up to date documentation when requested during the application process.