Kingswood Daycare Nursery is looking for a passionate and experienced cook to become a valued member of our team at our Ofsted graded good nursery. We would love for you to work with us on our journey.
Conveniently located only a stone's throw from Belgrave Rd Tram Station. All admissions come through word of mouth, and recommendations by happy parents past and present.
Kingswood is a privately owned, family run nursery that offers the highest standards of care and education for children between the ages of three months and five years of age.
Children are cared for in a loving, safe and happy environment. The setting has an incredibly dedicated and passionate team of Early Years practitioners, led by our manager who has over ten years of experience in nursery education, and has previously managed a nursery that was awarded a "Good" with outstanding aspects.
Key Responsibilities
* To organise, cook and prepare a healthy, balanced diet for children aged 0 to 5 years in accordance with the nursery menus.
* Take into consideration daily those children who have special dietary requirements and prepare a suitable alternative.
* Prepare a suitably balanced rotating menu taking into account dietary and cultural requirements of the children.
* Ensure high standards of hygiene, health and safety is maintained in the kitchen at all times.
* Maintain a clean working environment and ensure the necessary food orders are planned and placed.
Benefits
1. 28 days annual leave, Competitive salary.
2. Flexibility of making recommendations for menu
3. In charge of the kitchen and responsible for own budget.
4. Training provided for Food Hygiene
5. Hours of work 10am-5pm monday to friday
Operational Responsibilities
* To be responsible for the day-to-day running of the kitchen, ensuring compliance with registration and legislative requirements at all times.
* Responsible for the planning and preparation of food to provide meals in accordance with Kingswood menus and food policies.
* Ensure that all individual dietary requirements are catered for in line with parental guidance.
* Maintain necessary kitchen procedures and records in accordance with Kingswood and Environmental Health policies and processes.
* Liaise with nursery management on the ordering of necessary kitchen equipment.
* To undertake any other reasonable catering duties as requested by the nursery management.
* Ensure the kitchen and equipment is kept suitably clean at all times including walls, floors and trolleys to transport food following a cleaning schedule. On a daily basis that all crockery, cutlery and cooking utensils are washed in accordance with food safety guidelines.
* Ensure that all foods are ready at the specified time and correctly served.
* To monitor any safeguarding issues following local authority procedures.
Individual Accountability
* To ensure you have a clean uniform, including head wear, daily and wear suitable footwear for working in a busy kitchen space.
* To give daily feedback to the Nursery Management about the kitchen including any situation that may be detrimental to the company.
* Ensure the effective and regular removal of waste materials to the designated waste area.
* The ability to use food preparation equipment and ensure the economic use of materials, equipment and energy.
* The ability to work as part of a team and use your own initiative.
* The ability to manage your own time and prioritise tasks.
* Have a friendly, flexible approach.
* To have total responsibility of the kitchen, cleaning all of the equipment and appliances, take temperatures of the food, fridge and freezer and record these in the kitchen file.
Personnel
* To establish good professional relationships with colleagues.
* To work as a team and help out in the nursery when needed.
Administration
* Work with the nursery management to implement and ensure that set budgets are not exceeded.
* Responsible for control, storage and rotation of kitchen stock.
* Order food in line with our policies.
* The ability to order correct amounts of food and control kitchen stock.
* To prepare a weekly shopping list and put the shopping away.
Training and Development
* To contribute to the team effort of the nursery and to attend staff meetings and social events as and when required.
* Commitment to undertaking appropriate training and continued professional development.
* To undertake future and refresher training as appropriate.
* Be professional, polite and positive in all verbal and non-verbal interactions with staff, parents and children at all times.
Health & Safety
* To ensure that the highest standards of health and safety apply to both children, staff, parents and visitor, maintaining a safe and secure environment.
* Ensure that hygiene and cleanliness within the kitchen is of the highest standard in accordance with Environmental Health requirements and legislation.
* Pay due attention to the dress code for a cook.
* Maintain an awareness of food allergies keeping an up to date log of all children in the nursery, working with the staff team during new admissions.
* Update your knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues including COSHH regularly.
* To be responsible for the hygiene and complete all Risk Assessments within the kitchen area.
* Prevent cross contamination of food within the kitchen area.
DBS
* Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences.
If you feel that this opportunity sounds like it is for you, and you are a passionate and hard working individual that wants to go on our journey with us, then we would love to hear from you.
We believe our staff are the most important part of our nursery, as without them we would not be able to offer the quality of education and practice that we work so hard for every day. The reason we have happy children, is all due to our fantastic team
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £13.00 to £13.50 per hour
Experience:
* Commercial Cooking: 1 year (Preferred)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £13.00-£13.50 per hour
Expected hours: 32.5 per week
Work Location: In person