Assistant Cook and Cleaner

7 months ago


St Austell, United Kingdom Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre Full time

**Job description**

**Assistant Cook and Cleaner**

**Headline Terms**
- Immediate Start
- Rate of pay: £13/hour
- Hours: up to 22 hours per week
- Holiday: 28 days pro-rated
- Location: Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre, Porthpean, St. Austell, Cornwall PL26 6AZ
- Contract: Initial part-time, fixed term contract until 31/09/24.
- Free meals whilst on shift (during seasonal opening times)
- Free parking

Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre is Cornwall’s leading provider of school camps, summer camps, and outdoor adventure.

Our new assistant cook and cleaner will be responsible for assisting our Head Cook with all matters food at our centre. Feeding up to 200 children every day, the role will suit someone with school or volume catering experience.

As Assistant Cook and Cleaner at Porthpean OEC, you will be play a crucial part on site, overseeing a variety of different functions. This will include management of:

- food preparation
- food hygiene
- kitchen and site cleanliness
- kitchen and site compliance
- stock rotation

**About you**

Are you a skilled, personable, hard-working, food professional looking for a new adventure?

Do you have experience in a busy commercial food business?

Do you have high standards and understand the value of good food?

Do you have the passion to enhance and enrich the lives of children and young people?

Whether you are already an established and successful Chef/Cook or strive to become one, we’d love to hear from you

To succeed in this role, you will need to tick the following boxes:

- You will be an excellent communicator, both written and oral.
- You will be a likeable individual with a warm and upbeat personality to help welcome in the thousands of children and young people that stay at our centre every year.
- You will be 'handy' and prepared to get involved to ensure the job is done.
- You will be completely reliable, super-organised, flexible, and you will be able to provide glowing references.
- You live locally to the Cornish south coast and are passionate about Cornwall and all it has to offer. You hold a Full UK Drivers licence, with unrestricted access to a vehicle.

**Why join us?**

We know how special Porthpean Outdoor Education Centre is and what a truly inspiring place it is to call work. In advertising this post, we offer:

- A unique location and workplace
- A broad range of responsibilities and challenges in a rewarding and satisfying fun, upbeat environment.
- A fantastic team to work alongside. As a team, everyone is highly valued and treated as an equal, with our ethos built around the knowledge that without every single person’s hard work and positivity, we cannot offer the complete service our customers deserve. We work hard to ensure our strong culture is cohesive with a shared sense of purpose. As a small, yet ambitious Cornish-owned company, we want you to share our vision and strategy to achieve long-term goals in an honest, respectful, and meaningful workplace.
- A commitment to support your learning and development.
- Industry-leading pay rates
- Free meals on duty (when kitchen is open)

**What you need to apply?**

Whilst you will need a certain level of experience and evidenced skill sets on your CV to make the next step in our recruitment process, personality and a desire to get the job is key.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £13 / hour

Expected hours: Up to 22 hours per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Cleaning: 2 years (required)
- Cooking: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate (preferred)

Work Location: In person

**Job Types**: Part-time, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 5 months

Pay: £13.00 per hour

Expected hours: 1 - 22 per week

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Cooking: 1 year (required)
- Kitchen experience: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person


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