Kitchen Helper- School

**Contract Period**:

- 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

**Deployment**:

- (42 Hrs/week)
- Mon to Thurs: 7.00 am to 4.30 pm (incl 1 hr lunch break)
- Fri: 7 am to 4 pm ( incl 1 hr lunch break)

**Scope of Works**:

- **A. Daily routine - For Practical Lessons and Exams**_

1. General cleaning of food laboratories including cleaning table tops, sinks, cookers, sweeping and mopping of the floor and emptying dustbins.

2. Refill the soap dispensers.

3. Check the cutlery and ensure equipment are in place for each unit.

4. Take in the day’s food orders delivered. Place them on trays for the respective teachers. Clear unwanted packaging or boxes.

5. After briefing by the teachers, assist them to get ready practical materials and equipment based on the given recipe and sample of layout for all classes.

6. Keep and maintain the knives (pairing knives and cook’s knives) log when issuing before and after lessons.

7. Assist teachers during lessons, help to replenish items, clear teachers’ centre tables, assist students with cookers/ ovens/ grill/ blenders/ steamers, mop spills, etc.

8. After lessons to help clean up and store food properly following the first-in-first-out rule and prepare for the next lessons.

9. After lesson, lock the knives in the metal drawers in Food Lab 1.

10. After lessons: Check all cookers are switched off, ensure all gas valves are closed, sinks are clean, cookers are clean and rubbish is disposed of. Clear the centre store table.

11. Mop the floor of both food laboratories and prep rooms at the end of practical lessons for the day.

12. Laundry for kitchen towels: Put the used clothes into the washer after lesson for the day. Hang those in washing machine to dry. Fold the dried clothes and place in the designated boxes for the kitchen linen.
- **B. Weekly Duties (preferably on Fridays)**_

1. Thoroughly clean the cookers and ovens.

2. Thoroughly clean and clear chokes in sinks.

3. Clear fridges of unwanted/spoilt foods and sanitise fridge with baking soda solution.

4. Clear and clean centre store tables.

5. Check supply of detergents and inform teachers if need to replenish.

6. Mop the floor of both kitchens and prep rooms.

7. Wipe and sanitise student’s tables, chairs and pigeonholes.

8. Wipe and clean the whiteboard with whiteboard solution.
- **C. School Holiday Duties**_

Before the start of each term holiday:
1. Check with the teachers and ensure all perishables are cleared from the refrigerators.

2. All utensils are kept properly and none left on sink tops, especially teacher’s table.

3. Check all cutlery (in first drawer) are in order. i.e. Number of spoons, fork, etc are in place. If not, make a written list and inform teacher in charge.

4. All food on store table are to be kept in the fridge where possible.

5. The kitchen cookers, ovens, grills and sinks are thoroughly cleaned.

6. All taps, electric points and gas mains are turned off.

7. All empty delivery boxes and packages are disposed.

8. Food laboratories are mopped with bleach to sanitise them.

9. Teacher’s workroom is mopped and tables are wiped clean.

**Requirement**:
1. Able to read and converse in basic English.

2. Able to do kitchen food preparation - handling food, portioning and proper food storage.

3. Able to handle kitchen equipment like ovens and cookers, washing machine (requirement in Nutrition and Food Science classes).

4. Certified in food hygiene would be an added advantage

5. Two years relevant experience helping in school kitchen is preferred.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $1,600.00 - $1,800.00 per month

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 01/04/2025