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The Shoreditch Trust
Shoreditch, London
Posted: 17 Jan 2023
Deadline: 6 Feb 2023
Compensation: £11.50 per hour
Paid Full-time Fixed term / contract
Job description
Purpose of this post
Waterhouse Restaurant is open Monday to Friday 9am - 3pm for breakfast and lunch, with occasional private evening and weekend bookings such as meetings, dinners, birthday parties and weddings.
Our restaurant is host to Shoreditch Trust’s Blue Marble Training programme, supporting and training young people to become the next generation of chefs.
Job Description
As a member of the Waterhouse team, your duties will be in two main areas:
Assisting the kitchen and the chef on duty:
Maintenance and Cleaning:
Job Requirements
In order to be responsive to the community and to be able to support Shoreditch Trust activities, you will need to be flexible, working some evenings and weekends. Hours will be agreed on a mutually beneficial basis in line with planned activities.
Person Specifications
Essential
Shoreditch Trust Values
Shoreditch Trust is working to create a future free from inequality. Our people-focused and peer-support approach enables us to model our services around the needs of those we support, facilitating individual and community leadership and development and encouraging people to achieve their goals.
Shoreditch Trust has over 20 years’ experience and specialist expertise in designing and implementing community-based health and wellbeing programmes.
We support communities in Hackney and neighbouring boroughs to improve their health and wellbeing, develop social networks, and build skills and opportunities for meaningful employment.
Our focus is on working with people who experience health, economic and social inequality, including women in pregnancy and early parenthood,
young people not in education or work who are at risk, stroke survivors, socially isolated older people and those experiencing long term health and social issues.
Our Values guide everything we do with clients, colleagues, partners & commissioners:
Anti Racism
At Shoreditch Trust we realise that systemic racism is an issue that affects us all; we recognise the many ways that racism undermines the health and opportunities of people who are affected; we respond in every way we can to repair the harms that racism causes; and we resist any policies or ways of behaving on our part that may be racist.
Equal Opportunities
Shoreditch Trust is committed to encouraging diversity and eliminating discrimination in both its role as an employer and as a provider of services. Through its aims as a charity, Shoreditch Trust recognises that the communities we work with have endured long-term deprivation and under investment. It also recognises the incredible potential of those communities and individuals. We are committed to challenging and changing this situation and to contributing to the creation of a fair, equitable and accessible society.
Shoreditch Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation - a place where we all can be ourselves and reach our full potential at work. We offer a range of staff support programmes, including 4 development days, extensive training opportunities and wellbeing policy and initiatives. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.
Safeguarding statement
Shoreditch Trust works with children, vulnerable young people and adults at-risk in a variety of ways and is committed to providing a safe, positive and friendly environment. We have a statutory and moral duty to ensure and promote the welfare of these groups regardless of race, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion and belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership. Our policy extends to the
treatment of all our service users, partners, volunteers, visitors and employees of Shoreditch Trust. The Trust abides by the legislation in place for safeguarding and takes into account best practice in child and adults at-risk safeguarding.
Safer Recruitment
Shoreditch Trust places the utmost importance on the welfare and wellbeing of its clients. The selection process will assess the candidate’s suitability for the role and explore any gaps or anomalies in the application process. Confirmation of the post is subject to a minimum of two satisfactory references; where eligible, a satisfactory outcome of the DBS check. This is in addition to the necessary information to attend an interview: Proof of identity and proof of the right to work in the UK.
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity only. Shoreditch Trust is a small charity and as such all staff are expected to vary their duties as necessary to meet the needs of the organisation.
Application information
Please apply at https://www.shoreditchtrust.org.uk/jobs-and-volunteering/
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About The Shoreditch Trust
Shoreditch Trust is working to create a future free from inequality. Our people-focused and peer-support approach enables us to model our services around the needs of those we support, facilitating individual and community leadership and development and encouraging people to achieve their goals. Shoreditch Trust has over 22 years’ experience and specialist expertise in designing and implementing community-based health and wellbeing programmes.