Job Description
Join Woodberry Day Nursery Fawley as a Kitchen Assistant
Location: Fawley
Contract: 29 hours per week- Monday & Friday\n10am-5pm, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am-3pm
Salary: £12.71 per hour
At Family\nFirst, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package,\nincluding:
* Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus\n a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays
* Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our\n team member’s
* Wellbeing: Confidential employee\n assistance helpline available
* Development: Tailored learning and\n development opportunities to support your career growth
Your\nKey Responsibilities
As our\nKitchen Assistant, you will play an important role in ensuring children receive\nnutritious meals in a safe and clean environment. Your duties will include:
* Preparing and organising food ingredients
* Supporting the chef with serving meals and managing\n allergy requirements
* Maintaining excellent hygiene standards across the\n kitchen and dining areas
* Completing hygiene checklists and adhering to\n Cleaning Schedules
* Receiving, rotating and organising food stock
* Monitoring cooking times and temperatures
* Loading/unloading the dishwasher
* Light cleaning and household duties
* Assisting in nursery rooms when required
What\nWe’re Looking For
Essential:
* Experience managing dietary requirements and food\n allergies
* Knowledge of COSHH
* Experience in cooking within domestic or commercial\n settings
* Fluent written and spoken English (GCSE grade C or\n equivalent)
Desirable:
* Experience preparing meals for young children
Why\nFamily First?
At Family\nFirst, we embrace diversity, individuality and the true meaning of belonging.\nWe’re a family in every sense—bringing together people of different ages,\nbackgrounds, cultures, genders and skillsets. Every person helps define who we\nare.
We are: Defined\nby Family.
We are\ncommitted to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all\nstaff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service\nCertificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to\nenhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty. Ellingham House Day Nursery is part of the Family\nFirst Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal\nrights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult\nor a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and\nanti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their\nindividual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion\nor belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation,\ngender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or\npolitical belief has no place within the Family First Group.