Cook 3 Leith Academy Salary: £25,322 - £25,623 pro-rata for part-time sessional) Hours: 26 per week, 38 weeks sessional Assistant cooks play a vital role in delivering high quality meals to pupils. Working with the Unit Manager, the Assistant cook supports the skilled cooking of meals. Taking ownership and accountability for the quality of meals and supporting the unit manager to deliver a safe working environment. To undertake individually or as part of a team, activities in a kitchen or dining centre connected with the provision and transportation of the catering service. Providing a fully compliant, high quality catering provision which meets the councils aims and objectives. Skilled cooking activities connected with the full range of meals and recipes. Paperwork - Completion of Cook Safe, allergen paperwork and other food related paperwork (e.g. recording temperatures, service specification etc). Complete daily/weekly audits of the service - e.g. cleaning schedules, Covid compliance checks etc Stock - Receiving food deliveries, checking temperature, quality of food and storing and labelling food appropriately. Stock rotation, checking dates to ensure old stock is used first and occasional ordering of stock. Control of hygiene within the kitchen - Ensuring Cook 1's maintain a high level of hygiene, health and safety is maintained throughout. Ensuring Supervisors are made aware of any staff hygiene issues within the kitchen. To support counter set-up and presentation of the food offer and assist in the service of that food as required. Cash handling (as and when required). Place orders for food and non-foods as and when required. Support the preparation and delivery of function activity as required. Work with the unit manager to cater for theme days in accordance with service specifications This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation. As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work. To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working. You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" ; target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working. Follow us on X at @edincounciljobs View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/37271/assistant-cook-cook-3… ; target="_blank">Cook job pack View https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/36683/sessional-working-inf… ; target="_blank">sessional working information ">https://counter.adcourier.com/SmFjb2IuSG9iYmlzLjI4ODAxLjEzNTMyQGNpdHlvZ… ;