Greenroom Cook

**Greenroom Cook**

Reports to: House Manager

**Salary**: £12.00 per hour

Contract: 30 hours per week across 5 days, Mon - Sat, with the occasional Sunday in line with show performance schedule

Benefits: 28 days annual leave pro rata (inclusive of bank Holidays), contributary pension, great ticket offers, no split shifts, meet and interact with visiting cast members, very few early morning or late nights.

Theatre Royal Plymouth is a registered charity, inspiring a lifetime of creativity for audiences, artists and participants throughout Plymouth and the wider region. As the principal home of performing arts in the Southwest, we engage and inspire many communities, creating memorable experiences for people from all backgrounds. TRP do this by creating and presenting a breadth of shows on a range of scales, with their extensive creative engagement programmes, by embracing the vitality of new talent and supporting emerging and established artists, and by collaborating with a range of partners to provide dynamic cultural leadership for the city of Plymouth.

Theatre Royal Plymouth has a busy and fast paced hospitality offering set in a contemporary environment in a key City location. With an exciting range of performances on the horizon, we are looking for a Greenroom cook to assist our Lead Cook in the provision of hot and cold food offer for our performers, staff and visiting patrons.

You will assist the Lead Cook in the preparation and the smooth running of food production and service whilst maintaining excellent Food Hygiene and Safety standards at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

This is a permanent position of 30 hours per week, consisting of 6 hour shifts 5 days out of 7. There will be the expectation that this rises to 40 hours per week to cover annual leave and sickness, therefore flexibility is a must. The usual hours of work will be anytime between 9am - 9pm, and may vary day to day but this will be agreed ahead of time on a rota basis. This role may involve occasional work at our TR2 Production and Learning Centre in Cattedown.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion at TRP with a workforce, participants and audiences that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. The collective power of each team member’s life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent creates the very best environment for us to achieve our ambitions and lead the sector.

In recruiting for our team, we recognise the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

How to Apply

Interview Date: Week commencing 15th July

The Role

Here is an overview of what you will be doing:

- Preparation and cooking of dishes for service to our visiting companies, staff and patrons.
- The smooth running of a food service from our back of house Green Room
- Cover for Lead Cook whilst on annual leave.
- Assist lead cook in preparation of dishes for corporate events.
- Helps to organise, check and maintain work areas, coolers and storage for cleanliness, quality and quantity of food products.
- Assist the kitchen assistant with dishes and maintaining cleanliness of equipment.
- Maintains cleanliness of kitchen and workstations during preparation and service
- Preparing, portioning & maintaining high standards in food storage
- Brings a strong awareness of importance of hygiene and safety.
- Knowledge of HACCP and COSHH
- Receiving of deliveries, safe storage, and stock rotation.
- Helps to ensure the quality of the brand through standards of preparation, presentation, and attention to detail.
- Accurate EPOS operation and reconciliation

The Person

Our Values are at the heart of everything we say and do and our people demonstrate these values in every aspect of their work. To be successful in this role, you should be able to demonstrate the following skills, experience and behaviour in line with these values.

Quality:
Taking pride in achieving excellence. We take responsibility for and pride in what we do, recognising each other’s good work.

We set consistently high expectations and ensure that everyone has the skills to achieve excellence.

Collaboration:
Valuing each other in the way we work, communicate and spend time together: We communicate regularly with each other,

listening and understanding people’s needs. We value and respect the relationships we have with colleagues and partners and we celebrate shared successes.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Deliver tasks on a timely basis and to a consistently high standard
- A passion for maintaining high standards
- Maintain 5* food hygiene rating
- Ensure that all necessary kitchen records are completed
- Continuously look to develop yourself and learn new ways of doing things
- Excellent organisation and personal ti