Culinary Team Lead

20 hours ago


Stockport, Stockport, United Kingdom Totally Local Company Full time
Cook in Charge Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cook in Charge to join our Catering team at Windlehurst School. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the preparation and cooking of meals for children, ensuring compliance with food specification nutritional standards, and maintaining a safe and hygienic kitchen environment.

Main Responsibilities
  • To prepare and cook meals for children within agreed food and labour budgetary costs.
  • To ensure compliance with food specification nutritional standards in accordance with relevant agreed set processes and procedures.
  • To ensure all health and safety and food safety guidelines are strictly adhered to.
  • To complete administrative procedures and paperwork to required standards.
  • To supervise and organise catering staff under your jurisdiction including ordering stock, planning, preparing, cooking, and serving food as directed by Totally Local Company for consumption on and off the premises.
  • To be responsible for receipt, temperature probing/recording, and the correct storage of all delivered goods.
  • To implement cleaning regimes for all kitchen equipment and associated activities, record, and document on cleaning schedules to comply with Totally Local Company HACCP policy.
  • To induct all staff on site including agency staff on the correct use of equipment, kitchen techniques, health and safety, food safety, COSHH, manual handling, and nutritional standards, following ‘Task Talk’ system, including refresher training as directed.
  • To plan and implement menu ideas for theme days and promotional activities within the school in negotiation with area manager/food champions.
  • To complete and process unit documentation.
Requirements
  • NVQ Level 2 in professional cookery or equivalent is essential.
  • The supervision and coordination of staff employed in the kitchen.
  • Responsible for the preparation, cooking, and serving of meals for consumption both on and off the premises, including special diets.
  • Responsible for ensuring all health and safety/standards are adhered to following company guidelines and standards.
  • Responsible for clerical duties connected with food, equipment, training, cleaning, and completion of unit paperwork to comply with Totally Local Company audit standards/requirement.
  • Facilitate training of new staff in the use of equipment, kitchen techniques, and relevant aspects of health and safety in the kitchen environment.
  • Responsible for the receipt and storage of all deliveries for the kitchen.
  • Responsible for managing and recording of stock control.
  • The provision of catering for special functions such as PTA events, theme days, etc., as required.
  • Responsible for and assisting with the serving of meals.
  • To conform to menu guidelines including the government’s food-based and nutritional standards.
  • To report equipment repairs and replacements following the correct procedures, for both heavy and light equipment.
  • To ensure that the kitchen and dining areas are maintained to a clean/hygienic and safe condition.
  • The preparation of the dining room for the consumption of meals.
Benefits
  • Lifestyle Benefits – we provide access to huge discounts on a variety of retailers and services, through our lifestyle benefits website.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme – enabling you to get the bike of your choice, with Tax and NI savings of up to 32%.
  • NEST Pension Scheme – 6.5% employer contribution if eligible.
  • Life Assurance – twice your basic salary.

As a team, our people do a huge variety of roles, but one of the things that our teams all have in common is we want to do the very best for the community we support.


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