Join Woodberry Day Nursery Fawley as a Kitchen Assistant
Location: Totton
Contract: 29 hours per week- Monday & Friday
10am-5pm, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am-3pm
Salary: £12.71 per hour
At Family
First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package,
including:
Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus
a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays
Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our
team member’s
Wellbeing: Confidential employee
assistance helpline available
Development: Tailored learning and
development opportunities to support your career growth
Your
Key Responsibilities
As our
Kitchen Assistant, you will play an important role in ensuring children receive
nutritious meals in a safe and clean environment. Your duties will include:
Preparing and organising food ingredients
Supporting the chef with serving meals and managing
allergy requirements
Maintaining excellent hygiene standards across the
kitchen and dining areas
Completing hygiene checklists and adhering to
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
We’re Looking For
Essential:
Experience managing dietary requirements and food
allergies
Knowledge of COSHH
Experience in cooking within domestic or commercial
settings
Fluent written and spoken English (GCSE grade C or
equivalent)
Desirable:
Experience preparing meals for young children
Why
Family First?
At Family
First, we embrace diversity, individuality and the true meaning of belonging.
We’re a family in every sense—bringing together people of different ages,
backgrounds, cultures, genders and skillsets. Every person helps define who we
are.
We are: Defined
by Family.
We are
committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all
staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service
Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to
enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty. Ellingham House Day Nursery is part of the Family
First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal
rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult
or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and
anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their
individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion
or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation,
gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or
political belief has no place within the Family First Group