Nursery Cook

**Early Learners Nursery - Widnes**

20 Deacon Road, Widnes, WA86ED

SALARY ** UPTO £18590. 00**

**T**:01606841174

**Nursery Cook** _(Full-time: 32.5 hours, 9am - 4pm, Mon-Fri, 30 minute lunch)_
- Long term
- Fixed Contract. Flexible to suit the needs of the business. _

**Overview of job role**:
**AM Meals Served at: 11:00am**

**PM Meals Served at: 15:00pm**

**How to Apply**
- CV & cover letter explaining why you would like to work for Early Learners

Your interview checklist:

- Identification (passport, drivers licence, utility bill, birth certificate).
- Home Address (Other addresses you have lived at in the past 5 years)
- Contact Number(s) (siblings and partners for emergencies)
- Copies of your relevant Food/ Catering certificates (level 2 and 3 diploma, foundation degree, full degree, etc.)
- Copies of your GCSE certificates (Maths & English grades C and above - essential to apply)
- Two contacts and addresses for written references (one needs to be current employer)

Designs and prepares meals by providing culinary expertise; promoting and providing quality food services; managing nursery kitchen.

**Duties**:

- Accomplishes culinary human resource objectives by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining food production employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
- Achieves culinary operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; serving as culinary resource to operations managers; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.
- Meets culinary financial objectives by estimating requirements; preparing an annual budget; designing menus; anticipating and evaluating response to menu presentation; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions; evaluating time-saving production techniques; training others in specialty techniques.
- Oversees food preparation by consulting with nursery managers and directors; overseeing portion sizes; controlling productivity; providing culinary leadership in areas of personal expertise; monitoring presentations, garnishments, and sauces.
- Improves menu quality and consistency by analysing food production records and menu expenses; standardising production recipes; promoting kitchen staff interest in quality improvement; studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes.
- Prepares children’s menus and food preparation reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising food, dining, and customer data and trends.
- Maintains safe, secure, and clean work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with sanitation and federal, state, and local legal regulations; overseeing food preparation, safety, and security; reviewing and implementing accident and disaster plan.
- Maintains food ingredients, food preparation, and general supplies by selecting and purchasing menu ingredients; evaluating the quality of fresh food and food product deliveries; maintaining general supplies; establishing inventory levels, re-order points, storage requirements, and cost-controls.
- Maintains culinary equipment by following operating instructions; instructing staff in equipment use; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining equipment supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment; preparing administrative proposals to justify purchases.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; being sought for opinions as a culinary expert; contributing to professional publications; participating in professional societies.

Accomplishes culinary goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

**The interview**

The interview is led by our nursery manager and supported by a senior member of the team. We will ask you questions on the following areas:

- Your history and experience
- Training and qualification(s) - Professional Cookery Level 3
- Knowledge and understand of the Safer Food Better Business

This is an opportunity for us to ask you questions and also for you to question us.

If you have any urgent questions please don't hesitate to contact a member of the management team at the relevant nursery.

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

**Salary**: Up to £11.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Co