Kitchen Assistant

3 weeks ago

Erith, United Kingdom Spring Nurseries Full time

**Role: Ref 12223 - Kitchen Assistant**

**Location: Erith, Kent**

**Salary: £23,860.64 per annum (pro-rata)**

**Contract/Hours: Permanent Part Time - 15 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 1.30pm - 4.30pm)**

**Closing date: Midnight on 26**th** June 2024**

**Benefits**:

- 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
- 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts

We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know

**About Spring**

Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team.

**Join us and you can look forward to**:

- A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
- Flexible working - wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
- Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
- Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

**A bit about the role**

We are looking for a Kitchen Assistant who is passionate about the importance of nutrition in an early years setting, being part of the nursery team, you will adhere to our healthy eating menus, assisting the Chef to plan, order and prepare meals for children ensuring that hygiene standards are adhered to.

**How you'll help to create brighter futures**:

- Planning healthy meals, that are nutritious, varied and tasty, taking into account the children's dietary and cultural requirements.
- Taking full responsibility for compliance with all relevant food hygiene and Health & Safety requirements.
- Ensuring that all stock is order and replenished as needed, that food is correctly stored in line with guidance and that stock is rotated and all equipment is kept clean and in good repair.
- Keeping waste to a minimum, ensuring our impact on the environment is as mínimal as it can be, and costs are kept low.
- Always following latest legislation in relation to food and food hygiene and taking part in all necessary and required training as needed.
- Taking responsibility for the kitchen being kept clean including dishwashing duties daily after every meal/snack time.

**Let's talk about you**:
In the role of **Kitchen Assistant**, we're ideally looking for someone who has:

- A Basic food hygiene certificate.
- A passion for cooking and creating healthy balanced meals.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Experience in a similar role working in a catering environment would be advantageous.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck We can't wait to hear from you.

**Diversity, Equality and Inclusion**

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

**Application Process**

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

**Talent Pool**: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

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