Cook

3 weeks ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

**Terms and Conditions: Part Time, Permanent, 30 hours per week**
**Department: People**
**Interview date: TBC**

We have 2 x Cooks positions, each working 30 hours per week, at Grade D

We have an exciting opportunity to offer Cooks vacancies across our Family Hubs and Children Centres.

The job role is to support across our 8 sites working in our Café Environment.

The cook’s role entails oversight of the day to day running of our Community Cafés, which provide daily meals in our café’s and also provide a range of healthy meals and snacks for our Nursery Children.

We are looking for someone who is highly motivated and can run a busy kitchen and serve customers. We want someone who is keen to bring new skills and ideas to our kitchens.

We are looking for a cook that can work at pace and have a high standard of cooking.

Do you have with a skillset for baking? and be able to sell a range of cakes and biscuits.

This role is a customer facing role and as such we want a high level of customer care and an approachable manner. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has a high level of customer service, as this role is working daily with a wide variety of customers from our diverse communities.

The role involves the planning of menus and ensuring they are providing a full range of healthy meals.

Over the half term and summer periods we have a very busy delivery of children’s meals and adults meals.

We need to ensure that we are providing cost effective meals with consideration to the rising cost of goods and effective use of products.

Our cooks have to consider their budget and ensure that you met the income targets from the sales of meals in the café is paramount.

As with all food preparation you will need to ensure that you can demonstrate:
- the safe storage of food products
- safe preparation of all elements of food handling
- Demonstrate high standards in the kitchen environment in line with health and safety requirements.

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02982

Date posted
- 13/05/2024

Application closing date
- 27/05/2024

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade D, SCP 5-8

Package
- Blank

Contractual hours
- 30

Basis
- Part time

Job category/type
- Council



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