Nursery Cook

**Nursery Cook (Temporary Cover) - Shooting Stars Bromsgrove, B61 0AE**

**Working hours**
- Temporary 2 month contract
- 37.5 hours per week over 5 days
- Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 3.30pm

The nursery is open all year round except bank holidays.

**Do you get a buzz from delivering high quality home cooked meals to children aged 0 - 5? If you are passionate about imbedding healthy eating practises from a younger age, helping children to understand healthy choices and delivering food options in an exciting and attractive way this might just be the job for you**
- Are you knowledgeable about children's allergies and dietary requirements and willing to make every child feel valued and included?
- Are you a confident multitasker ensuring we have fresh produce delivered weekly resulting in nutritious meals for a variety of dietary requirements.
- Do you love arriving at the end of a day and knowing that you made a difference?

If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you

**Qualification & Experience Requirements**

**Essential**
- Level 2 or above food hygiene certificate.
- Cook in charge experience, menu planning, costing, purchasing and safe food storage.
- Experience in preparing and serving food for people with allergies and special dietary requirements.
- Experience catering for children under 5 years old and/or working in a kitchen based in a nursery, school, nursing home or hospital.
- Supervisory experience.

**Desirable**
- Level 3 food hygiene, food allergy awareness, knowledge of working with safer food better business practises or a catering/hospitality qualification.
- A full job description and person specification can be provided upon request._

**Safeguarding commitment**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 2 months

Pay: £13.70 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Chef/Cook in charge: 1 year (preferred)
- working n a nursery, school, nursing home or hospital: 1 year (preferred)
- kitchen supervisory: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person