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Nursery Cook

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Barnardo's Full time

If cooking is your passion and working with children sounds like fun, we have an amazing new opportunity to collaborate with our team as a Nursery Cook in our nurseries.

We have two fantastic, very busy, Ofsted rated 'GOOD' nurseries, with one being based in Tower Hamlets E3 (Bow) and one based in Hackney E9 (Victoria Park) supporting children and babies from 3 months to 5 years.

The nursery opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8am-6pm, we are open 51 weeks a year only closing on Bank Holidays, 3 days For Staff Training and one Week over Christmas & New Year.

Your position would be based in our 5-star rated, fully equipped kitchen in our Nursery which is based in Hackney E9, and we are looking for an experienced cook, who will be able to provide a variety of nutritional food for our children. Your position would be required to provide around ninety lunches per day (across both Nurseries) with a view of that increasing in the future. We will have a taxi service that will collect the food and transport it to our Nursery in Bow each day.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for daily preparation of cooking nutritious meals & dessert, being able to cook for 70-90 children aged 3 months to 5 years daily.
- Preparation, cooking and baking various food items according to the nursery menus, being able to provide a range of diverse meals to meet with diverse cultural celebrations.
- Prepare and pack meals appropriately for the delivery of food to the other nursery setting.
- Being able to plan a rotating menu following the ‘Healthy Eating' guidelines.
- Ensure the kitchen is always maintained to the highest possible standard of hygiene maintaining our five stars.
- Being able to assist the kitchen assistant in clearing and washing up after meals, cleaning of all kitchen equipment and all general hygiene of all kitchen areas.
- Knowledge and understanding of food allergies, being able to cook for children with various/special dietary needs.
- Being able to work as part of a team.
- To be able to take responsibility for the workload in the kitchen and work without immediate supervision and to use own initiative.
- Responsible for checking stock regularly and placing orders for dried, fresh, and frozen ingredients as required and conducting stock control in accordance with set budget.
- To ensure all faults, breakages, shortages in equipment are all brought to the attention of the centre Manager.
- Maintaining necessary paperwork for the Kitchen.
- Maintain an exceedingly high standard of personal hygiene and personal hygiene practices and to wear uniform provided each day.
- Understanding of working in guidelines of the “Safer food Better Business” Foods Standards Agency
- Be fully conversant with the requirements of food hygiene and food safety legislation, the health and safety at work. Act and fire evacuation procedures.
- To read and comply with all nursery policies.
- To undertake First Aid and other training relevant to the role as required
- To attend staff meetings, supervision sessions and annual appraisals.

**What we are offering**
- Salary: £22,754 per annum-Full time Equivalent (salary based on 30 hours will be Pro rata)
- 30minutes lunch break each day.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to discussing flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, leave entitlement increasing after 3 years of service.
- 1 day for staff recognition per annum.
- Upskilling our staff and providing access to a variety of qualifications
- Access to ‘tickets for good' who provide discounted tickets to events, shows, experience days and more.
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Holiday Plus scheme.
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay, together with all family additional leave options.
- Service-related sick pay from day one.
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
- Death in service cover of four times annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans (for Travel to work)
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
- Access to Barnardo's Corporate University which encourages continual personal development.

Please note that any qualifications you hold must be full and relevant as per the Department for Food Safety Standards guidelines.

An enhanced DBS (Child W