Employment Contract

Kitchen Assistant

Chase Grammar School Ltd

and

Askar Ali

August 2016
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This agreement dated 20 January 2024

Between
(1) Chase Grammar School Limited (Company Registration Number 01454970) whose registered
office is Convent Close, Cannock, WS11 0UR (School)

(2) Askar Ali of C/o Chase Grammar School, 2 Convent Close, Cannock, Staffs WS11 0UR

Agreed terms
The following Schedule is incorporated into and forms part of this agreement.

Schedule 1 Your professional duties

Part A – Specific Terms

1 Start date of this contract 20 January 2024

1 End date of this contract N/A
1 Job Title Kitchen Assistant
2 Start date of employment with the School 28 April 2023
15 Working Hours Term time including 3 half terms.
Saturday – 15:30 to 18:30

The hours of work may change according

to the requirements of the School.

16 Salary per annum £658.94

Special Conditions: Please refer to job description which may be adapted from time to time.

Part B – General Terms

Appointment and duration
1 Appointment: The School will employ you and you will serve the School as a member of the
staff with effect from the date given in Part A above upon the terms of this agreement. Your
employment will continue until terminated in accordance with this agreement or as given in
Part A above

2 Continuity of employment: Your period of continuous employment with the School

commenced on the date given in Part A above and no previous employment counts as part
of your continuous period of employment.

3 Term: For the purposes of clauses 4 and 5, a Term means any of the following periods in any
year: 1 January to 30 April; 1 May to 31 August; 1 September to 31 December.

4 Probationary period: The first three Terms of your employment are probationary. During
this probationary period either you or the School may terminate your employment by giving
not less than one month's prior written notice. The School may, at its discretion, extend the
probationary period for up to a further 12 months. The probationary period will continue
until it has been confirmed in writing as successfully completed.
5 Notice period: Subject to earlier termination as provided for in this agreement, either party
may bring this agreement to an end on giving to the other one Term's notice in writing on or
before 31 August, 31 December or 30 April, to expire at the end of the applicable Term.

Conditions
6 Application form: It is a condition of this agreement that the contents of the application
form completed and supplied by you to the School and any representations made by you to
the School prior to your employment with the School are true.

7 Pre-employment checks: Your employment with the School will be subject to the School
being satisfied with the following:

8 the enhanced disclosure received from the Disclosure and Barring Service;

9 that you are not barred from working with children or vulnerable adults;

10 verification of your medical fitness;

11 verification of qualifications and identity;

12 that you are not subject to a direction under section 142 of the Education Act 2002 which
prohibits, disqualifies or restricts you from working at a school or in a position which
involves regular contact with children

13 that if your role involves school leadership responsibilities, you are not subject to a direction
under section 128 of the education and Skills Act 2008 which prohibits, disqualifies or
restricts you from being involved in the management of an independent school

14 confirmation of your right to work in the United Kingdom;

15 the two references received;

16 such other pre-employment checks as the School is required to complete in accordance with
its statutory or regulatory obligations .

Responsibilities, duties and place of work

17 Duties: You agree to teach such subjects at such academic levels and perform such other
duties which will include but are not limited to those set out in Schedule 1 to this agreement
and observe such restrictions and undertake such responsibilities as may from time to time
be reasonably assigned to you by the Principal.

18 Other activities: You agree that without the prior written permission of the Principal you
will not hold any office or engage in any activity which in the opinion of the Principal may
interfere with the reputation of the School, or the proper performance of your duties under
this agreement. You may not receive any additional remuneration or financial reward for
work undertaken with a pupil of the School without the prior written permission of the
Principal. For the avoidance of doubt you will not be required to abstain from any
occupation or activity which does not interfere with the proper discharge of your duties.

19 Reputation of the school: You agree to use your utmost endeavours to promote the
interests and reputation of the School and any associated body.

20 Duty of disclosure: You are required immediately to notify the School if you are:

21 subject to any change in your circumstances that affects your right to work in the United
Kingdom;
22 barred from working with children or vulnerable adults;

23 the subject of a referral to the Disclosure and Barring Service or any successor body;

24 living in the same household as anyone who may not be suitable to be associated with
children in line with the duty of disclosure under the Disqualification by Association
regulations

25 charged or convicted of any criminal offence;

26 in receipt of a police caution, reprimand or warning, or if there is a formal child protection

investigation of you or any member of your household.

27 the subject to a direction under section 128 of the education and Skills Act 2008 which
prohibits, disqualifies or restricts you from being involved in the management of an
independent school confirmation of your right to work in the United Kingdom;

28 Wrongdoing: You agree to report your own wrongdoing, or any wrongdoing or proposed
wrongdoing of any other member of staff to the Principal.

29 Place of work: You will be required to carry out your duties at the School and at such other
places as the Principal may reasonably require. You will not normally be required to work
outside the United Kingdom.

30 Good order and discipline: You agree to ensure good order and discipline at all times when
pupils are present on the School premises and whenever the pupils are engaged in
authorised School activities, whether on School premises or elsewhere.

31 Working hours: Full time or part time you are required to:

32 Work such hours as are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of your duties.

33 Undertake duties, such as attend INSET days even where those days fall at times, or on days,
on which you would not usually work. The School expects that you will be required to work
twelve INSET days each academic year.

Remuneration
34 Salary: You will receive a salary as given in Part A per annum in accordance with the
School's salary scale from time to time in force. The School has the right to alter the scale
from time to time and any such alteration will be effective from the date notified to you.

35 Payment: Your salary will be paid by 12 equal monthly instalments in arrears on such date
in each month as the School will from time to time determine directly into a bank or building
society account nominated by you. Your salary will accrue from day to day during both
school and holiday periods 1/365 (or 1/366 in the case of leap year) being payable in respect
of each day of the year.

36 Pay review: Your salary will normally be reviewed annually in the Summer Term. A review
does not necessarily imply an increase in salary.

37 Salary adjustments: You agree that if you have been paid more than your entitlement
under this agreement or if the School becomes entitled to claim any sum from you, the
appropriate adjustment will be made against your salary or any other sum of money which
the School owes you.

38 Allowances: If applicable you will receive a responsibility allowance. Where you no longer
carry out the duties connected to that allowance, you will not be paid the allowance.
39 Expenses: Upon production of vouchers or other evidence of payment you will be
reimbursed the cost of any expenses you may reasonably incur in the proper execution of
your duties.

40 School fees discount: While any of your natural or adopted children is eligible to attend and
does attend the School as a pupil, you will be granted a discount on the school fees for that
child or such other discount as in accordance with the School's policy from time to time of
providing fee assistance to teaching staff. Your entitlement to a discount ends when your
employment terminates for whatever reason.

41 Gifts: In accordance with the School's Anti-bribery and Corruption Policy if you receive a gift
or any other benefit arising from or in connection with your employment, you should
declare the gift to the Principal where there is a possibility it could be misconstrued, or in
any event where the gift is of a value of more than £100. The Principal has absolute
discretion to require you to decline the gift.

Pension
42 The Scheme: The School takes part in a Pension Scheme applicable to either teaching or
support staff. You will be automatically be enrolled if you meet the relevant criteria,
however you do have the option to opt out if required.

43 Information: Further details about the Scheme are available from the Principal. and from
the website: http://thepeoplespension.co.uk/employees

Holidays
44 Normal school holidays: Subject to the requirement to carry out such work as is reasonably
necessary to discharge your duties, you are entitled to take holiday during normal school
holidays at Christmas, Easter and in the summer, in accordance with the Boarding Timetable.
You may have to attend work at such times during the school holidays as is reasonably
required by the School such as short periods after the end and before the beginning of any
term and as given in Part A. You may also be required to attend work during school holidays
to take part in any investigation or disciplinary hearing. You will be given reasonable notice
of such requirements. Public holidays occurring when the School is in session are working
days.

45 Payment on termination: In the event that your employment terminates during the
academic year you will be entitled to be paid in lieu of any accrued but untaken holiday
based on your minimum holiday entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 only
and not on your entitlement under the clause above. For these purposes any paid holiday
that you have taken will be deemed first to be statutory paid holiday.

46 Holiday year: The School's holiday year runs from 1 September to 31 August each year.

Leave
47 Entitlement: You may be entitled to adoption, maternity and paternity pay and leave,
parental leave, domestic incident leave and sick leave. Further details are set out in the
Employment Manual. During maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave or sick leave
your entitlement to holiday will be limited to the minimum holiday entitlement under the
Working Time Regulations 1998 only and not based on your entitlement to normal school
holidays. For these purposes any paid holiday that you have taken will be deemed first to be
statutory paid holiday.
Absence on account of illness or injury
48 Sick pay: Subject to your compliance with the notification requirements and other
obligations in the Staff Absence Policy , if you are unable to work because you are ill you may
be entitled to receive Statutory Sick Pay

49 Self-certification: You shall, if absent for seven calendar days or less, immediately on
returning to work complete a self-certification form covering each day of absence.

50 Medical certificate: You shall, if absent for more than seven calendar days, provide the
School with a medical certificate from your general practitioner on the eighth day of absence
stating the reasons for absence and whether you may be fit for work with certain
adjustments, or that you are not fit for work. Your general practitioner will need to provide
a medical certificate to cover any subsequent periods of absence.

51 Injury caused by others: if you are unable to work because of an accident or other action
caused by another person, any compensation you receive from that person or their insurers
relating to earnings for which the school has already paid you as sick pay shall be repaid by
you to the school.

52 Review of sickness record: The School will be entitled to review your sickness record at any
stage of absence and may dismiss you with notice on the grounds of such absence,
notwithstanding that any entitlement to sick pay has not been exhausted.

53 Medical examination requirement: The School will, at its own expense, be entitled to
require you to undergo examinations by a medical adviser to be appointed or approved by
the School. You authorise the medical adviser to disclose to the Principal (or person
nominated by the Principal the results of the examinations and to discuss any matters arising
from the examinations which might affect the proper discharge of your duties.

Confidential information
54 Definition: Confidential information includes without limitation all information (relating to
the School, staff, pupils and their parents or guardians and governors) which is not readily
ascertainable other than to persons employed by or holding office with the School and any
information in respect of which the School owes an obligation of confidentiality to any third
party.

55 Restrictions: You will not (during your employment or at any time after it has ended) except
in the proper performance of your duties disclose, or cause any unauthorised disclosure of,
or use for your own purposes any trade secrets or Confidential Information (whether
contained in documents or otherwise) provided that these obligations will cease to apply to
any information or knowledge which has come into the public domain, otherwise than by
way of breach of your obligations.

56 School property: All notes, memoranda, records, correspondence, computer and other
disks and tapes and all other documents and material whatsoever (including copies)
(whether made or created by you or otherwise) relating to Confidential Information or the
affairs of the School are and will remain the property of the School and will be handed over
by you to the School on demand.

Intellectual Property Rights

57 Definitions:
58 Employment IPRs: means Intellectual Property Rights created by you in the course of your
employment with the School (whether or not during working hours or using the School's
premises or resources);

59 Intellectual Property Rights: means all intellectual property rights, whether registered or
unregistered, including patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights,
performers' property rights, trade marks and domain names, goodwill and the right to sue
for passing off, rights in designs, design rights and database rights.

60 Assignment: You acknowledge that all Employment IPRs and all materials embodying them
shall automatically belong to the School to the fullest extent permitted by law. Where they
do not belong to the School automatically, you hold them on trust for the School. You agree
promptly to do all that is necessary, in the opinion of the School, to give effect to this clause.

61 Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: You agree:

62 at the School's request, and in any event on the termination of your employment, to give to
the School all originals and copies of correspondence, documents and records on all media
which record or relate to any of the Employment IPRs; and

63 not to attempt to register any Employment IPRs.

64 Moral rights: You waive all your present and future moral rights which arise under the
Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, relating to any copyright which forms part of the
Employment IPRs.

Procedures and rules

65 Capability and disciplinary procedures: The capability and disciplinary procedures
applicable to you once you have completed your first year of employment are set out in the
Staff Handbook. These procedures are provided for guidance only and are non-contractual.
If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary decision relating to you, or any decision to dismiss
you, you should notify the Principal in writing that you wish to appeal.

66 Grievance procedure: The grievance procedure applicable to you is set out in the
Employment Manual. This procedure is provided for guidance only and is non-contractual.
If you have a formal grievance you should raise it in writing in the first instance with your
Line Manager.

67 Rules: You agree to observe such rules communicated to you in writing by the Principal
and / or posted in the School's Staff Room and School Office and / or set out in the Staff
Handbook, School Policies and Code of Conduct. The School has the right to alter such rules
from time to time and any such changes will be notified to you.

68 Right to suspend / demote: The School will have the right to suspend you on full pay and
benefits pending the conclusion of any investigation and / or the resolution of any stage
under any capability or disciplinary and dismissal procedure initiated in respect of you. The
School has the right to suspend you without pay or demote you if so decided at a disciplinary
hearing or capability meeting.

69 Anti-bribery and corruption policy: You agree to comply with the School's Anti-bribery and
Corruption Policy and any related procedures at all times. Failure to do so will be treated as
a disciplinary matter and may result in your summary dismissal. The Anti-bribery and
Corruption Policy is non-contractual and may be amended from time to time.
Obligations during notice
70 Attendance: You will continue to perform your duties during any period of notice (whether
given by you or the School) unless the School requires that you refrain from so doing and
remain away from the School.

71 Garden leave: If the School requires you to be absent during any such notice period or any
other period then you will comply with any conditions laid down by the School during this
period. You will be entitled to full pay and benefits but will not be required to carry out any
of your duties under this agreement unless requested to do so by the School. You will
nonetheless be available to carry out such duties if requested to do so and will not be
permitted to work for any other person or body without the prior written consent of the
Principal.

Summary termination
72 Summary termination: Notwithstanding any other provisions of this agreement, the School
will be entitled to terminate your employment forthwith and without pay in lieu of notice
(but without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the School for any breach or non-
performance of this agreement and your continuing obligations under this agreement) if:

73 gross misconduct: you commit any act of gross misconduct;

74 serious breach: you commit any serious or repudiatory breach of your contract of
employment;

75 prejudicial behaviour: you behave in a manner either during and / or outside the course of
your employment which in the reasonable opinion of the Principal may prejudice the
interests of the School and / or is likely to bring you or the School into disrepute;

76 criminal offences: you are convicted of any criminal offence punishable with imprisonment
for six months or more (whether or not such a sentence is imposed on you);

77 gross negligence: you commit any act of gross negligence;

78 ineligible to work: you are not, or cease to be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

General provisions
79 Notices: Any written notice required to be served in accordance with this agreement will be
properly served if, in the case of a notice addressed to the School, it is either handed to or
sent by first class recorded delivery post to the Principal at the School, or, in the case of a
notice to be given by the School, it is handed to you personally or sent by first class recorded
delivery post to your last known residential address in the United Kingdom. Notices sent by
post will be deemed to have been received and served on the first day after posting.

80 Part-time staff: All benefits and payments in this agreement will be pro-rated for part-time
members of staff unless otherwise stated.

81 Collective agreements: The School confirms that there are no collective agreements which
directly affect your terms and conditions of employment.

82 Third Parties: No term of this agreement is enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of
Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person who is not a party to it.

83 Data protection: You agree that the School may hold, disclose to third parties or otherwise
process any information about you which it may acquire during your employment in
accordance with the School's Data Protection Policy and Fair Processing Statement for Staff
 and in particular to the processing of any sensitive personal data (as defined in the Data
Protection Act 1998).

84 Entire agreement: This agreement and those Policies which are expressed to have
contractual effect set out the entire agreement and understanding of the School and you
regarding your employment with the School and are in substitution for any terms of service
and all previous agreements or arrangements which you may have with the School.

85 Variation: The School reserves the right to make any reasonable changes to any of the
terms and conditions of your employment. Any change will be notified in writing.

Signed by the Principal

for and on behalf of the School [Signature]

Date 20/01/2024

Signed by employee ...........................................................

[Signature]

Date ...........................................................

Kitchen Assistant (Weekend)

The responsibilities of a Kitchen Assistant will require the appointee to assist within the catering department to
ensure that catering throughout the school meets the school’s objectives, maintains the highest possible
standards of food services whilst providing a warm welcome to students, staff and visitors.

Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities

 General kitchen cleaning to follow cleaning schedule
 Assist with stock taking as required & prepare ‘shopping lists’ as necessary
 Ensure all stock is stored appropriately and used in rotation.
 Check food deliveries as required
 Assist in preparing food for daily functions and events
 Familiarise yourself with the Food Hygiene Manual and follow the standards stipulated
 Ensure all Health and Safety and Hygiene procedures and standards of performance are followed
 Participate in staff training
 Use all equipment as trained observing all safe practices, so that accidents are avoided
 Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be requested by the Catering Manager

Hours of Work: Part-time - Saturday and Sunday – 15:30 to 18:30. Potential weekday work.

Person Specification
The following person specification indicates those areas of skills and personal characteristics, qualifications,
training and experience that are either essential or desirable in the candidates interviewed.
 Skills and personal Characteristics Essential Desirable

Holds Basic or Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate X

Has previous catering experience X

An ability to cope with pressure in a calm and confident manner X

An ability to communicate effectively with students and staff in a X
variety of ways
An understanding of, and a commitment to the ethos of the school as a X
community
Excellent attendance record X

Good sense of humour X

Tact, discretion & diplomacy X

Well-presented and personable X

Self-motivated X

The ability to work well within a team X

Warmth and sensitivity X

A concern for the reputation of the school X

Chase Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
The successful candidate must be able to satisfy an enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring
Service and must attend and comply with all Safeguarding Training and the School’s Safeguarding Policy.

Terms & Conditions

Salary & Pension: the School will contribute a percentage of pensionable salary towards a pension scheme.

Working Hours: Saturday– 15:30 to 18:30, although the hours of work will reflect the fact that Chase is a busy
boarding and day school and many events take place outside these regular hours. Attendance at key events is
required including Parents’ Evenings, Information Evenings, Concerts, Productions, Fixtures, Presentations and
Prize-Giving events.

Probation Period: an offer of employment will be subject to a probation period of one year, during which
employment will be subject to termination with half a term’s notice.

Notice Period: following probation, you will be required to give the School one term’s notice.

Free Meals: will be provided throughout the year when the School’s kitchens are open.