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We are looking for a dependable and skilled Breakfast Cook & Cake Baker to join our catering team. You will be responsible for preparing and delivering high-quality breakfast meals & Homemade Sponge Traybakes, ensuring excellent presentation, taste, and timely service. Ideally you will be able to step up and cover the lunch cooking using the recipe cards provided when the Chef is on leave.
Rate of Pay: £13.24 per hour
Position Type: Permanent
Type of Employment: Part Time
Hours: 27.5 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday (7:30am to 1:30pm)
Location:B&Q, Highworth Road, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, SN3 4QS
Key Responsibilities
1. Prepare and cook breakfast dishes in line with menu specifications
2. Prepare & Bake high quality Sponge cakes
3. Ensure food is ready for service on time and to high standards
4. Maintain excellent food hygiene and health & safety practices
5. Set up and organise kitchen stations for breakfast service
6. Monitor stock levels and assist with ordering/stock rotation
7. Keep the kitchen clean, tidy, and well-organised
8. Work collaboratively with the wider catering team
Requirements
9. Previous cooking experience, ideally in a breakfast or fast-paced kitchen environment
10. Knowledge of food safety standards (Level 2 Food Hygiene preferred)
11. Ability to work early mornings and manage time effectively
12. Strong attention to detail and consistency in food quality
13. Positive, reliable, and team-focused attitude
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .