Production Cook

6 months ago

Basildon, United Kingdom Nursery Kitchen LTD Full time

**Production Cook**

**Join our exceptional team**

We are passionate about making a real difference to children’s lives with tasty and nutritious food and outstanding early years education.

Our recipe for success is built on the experience of our team and their dedication to achieving our goals. So, we want to reward our team by creating the best place to work in early years food, where people can grow with us, create a lasting impact, and share in our success.

Whether our teams are creating or delivering delicious meals in our Nursery Kitchen, or are part of our management and support network, we want everyone to know they are connected to our purpose, trust they are valued and be able to fulfil their career ambitions.
- The Production Cook plays a key role in ensuring:

- Our meals are prepared safely for children to high nutritional standards.
- We adhere to our strict guidelines, processes, and hygiene policies.

We are looking for someone with huge enthusiasm for food, nutrition, and children’s health and education. This is a fantastic opportunity to provide real change for children and to develop skills in a flexible, friendly, and creative environment.

**Perks of the role**
- Competitive salary based at our Basildon site, 40 hours per week.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata.
- Ongoing training opportunities
- A friendly, flexible team with social events throughout the year.
- Free hot drinks, breakfast, and lunch at our Basildon site.
- Nursery discount for employees’ children.
- Health and wellbeing resources and support.
- Free life coaching in the Dream Academy.
- Discounted gym membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to a financial wellbeing service.
- Specsavers eyecare vouchers.
- Free onsite parking.

**About you**
- A commitment to producing high quality food following strict regulations is essential.
- Attention to detail is key so you must demonstrate a high level of accuracy and meticulous record keeping, be efficient, organised and have excellent planning skills.
- You must be self-motivated, able to work independently and have a desire to continually learn and develop.
- You will need 3 years cooking experience in a busy and sometimes pressurised kitchen and ideally will have achieved: HACCP Level 2, Food Safety Certificate Level 2, COSHH.
- There will be a requirement for you to work in a low temperature environment.
- You must have a good level of written and spoken English and good numeracy skills.
- You must be eligible to work in the UK.
- A real ‘can do’ attitude is a must to help make our team brilliant and love working together

**About the role**

The purpose of this role is to provide safe and nutritious meals for children. You will be cooking large volume dishes for later portioning so knowledge and understanding our strict food safety guidelines will be required.

You will demonstrate high quality standards with every task, prepare intermediate ingredients following recipes, and provide general and deep cleaning to ensure our work environment remains hygienic and safe to the highest standards.

You will need to:

- Maintain KPI and SALSA requirements.
- Foster a passion for our food, our vision, our teams, and our partners.
- Continually live, encourage, and celebrate our values.

**Other Information**

This job description is not exhaustive, and the post holder is required to undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the Production Manager.

We actively promote equal opportunities and are committed to equality and diversity for all our children and team. Applicants will be considered on merit only, irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or belief.

A copy of the Company’s Equal Opportunities Policy and Disclosure Information Policy is available on request.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

**Experience**:

- Chef: 3 years (required)
- Cooking: 3 years (required)
- Kitchen experience: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Basildon, SS13 1DJ (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Basildon, SS13 1DJ: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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