Nursery Cook

**CAREER DESCRIPTION**

**Job holder**:
**Job title**:
Nursery Cook

**Responsible to**:
Nursery Owner / Nursery Head

**Key skills and responsibilities**:
Complete the ordering, preparation, cooking and serving of all meals and snacks for children attending the nursery in line with Health Scotland Nutritional guidance ‘ Setting the Table.’ Should hold an Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate or similar qualificationMust have a minimum of two years previous food preparation and cooking experience within a busy kitchen environment **Meet standards set by Environmental Health Food Safety and Health and safety regulations**
- Liaise with Environmental Health officers, Health Protection, Care Inspectorate, Education Scotland and maintenance technicians when required
- Responsibility for keeping accurate and relevant records to comply with Cooksafe and HACCP procedures, ensuring all house rules are adhered to.
- Will require to undergo Disclosure checks and obtain a PVG scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland
- **Ensure all waste in kitchen is disposed of appropriately, encouraging recycling and similar activities**:

- Be well organised and maintain a safe and tidy environment

**General**
- To communicate effectively with all nursery staff
- To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- To ensure all relevant nursery policies and implemented in your daily work
- To undertake other duties that may from time to time be required by the nursery head or owner. E.g. special celebrations or events.

**Professional learning / Measurement and performance criteria**:

- To participate in an annual appraisal.
- To take part in training identified by yourself and management in your personal learning plan.
- Attend training as required for operational need and compliance
- Performance will be related to daily, weekly and monthly cooksafe records and standards
- Elements of any Environmental Health report, Health Protection, Care Inspectorate and Education inspections.
- To liaise with nursery staff when assisting children with food preparation, cooking and nutritional tasks.
- Success can be measured by the feedback from parents, children and staff.
- Ability to adapt to changing needs of the nursery environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to self-motivate and manage own time

**Relationships**:
Responsible to the Owner

Responsible to Nursery Head

**Levels of authority**:
You are responsible for the day to day running of the kitchen

**Other conditions of job**:
You must make the nursery aware of any issues, which may affect your disclosure.

The nursery operates a no smoking policy.

**Acceptance of job description**
- By signing below, the job holder accepts the above detail and acknowledges receipt of a copy of the job description. The original will be held in the job holder’s personnel file._

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**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 25 per week

**Salary**: £13,234.00-£14,170.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Ayr: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location