Kitchen Helper |School | Yuan Ching Road

Job Description

Job Description & Requirements
The Services required are set out as follows but not limited to :

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 dispensors.

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 center 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 incharge.

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 sanitize them.

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