Nursery Cook

Part time Catering

Job Description

Nursery Cook - Coton Day Nursery

Coton Day Nursery is looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Nursery Cook to join our team! This is a year-round position working 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday working either 9am-1pm or 10am-2pm. You’ll prepare nutritious meals for up to 24 children each day, ensuring a safe and healthy dining experience. Some experience cooking for children is required, and familiarity with Environmental Health Officer (EHO) guidelines would be an advantage.

Our setting is in the heart of the community with a homely kitchen to yourself we are looking for someone to take the lead on cooking our nutritional, healthy and balanced meals for our children each day! Come and join the team to make a difference! 

The role offers an hourly salary of £11.94

If you’re passionate about providing delicious, balanced meals in a supportive environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Nursery Cook main duties and responsibilities*:

  • Keep the kitchen a clean and safe environment, adhering to internal and external requirements; complete the Kitchen Hygiene Checklist each month, and ensure that the Cleaning Schedule is complete and adhered to, being regularly updated, and displayed prominently in the kitchen.
  • Ensure the highest levels of cleanliness and hygiene in the nursery and kitchen.
  • The nursery staff will tell you each day of the numbers to cater for; prepare and cook enough age-appropriate food (cooked as near to the point of service as possible) for all the children on a daily basis, with minimum wastage.
  • Take responsibility to make sure all dietary requirements are catered for and clearly communicated to the teams.
  • Ensure that dietary requirements and personal care routines are adhered to at all times, including the robust measures around the Red, Amber and Green plate procedures.
  • Work in co-operation and partnership with the Nursery team and parents to encourage a healthy and nutritious diet.
  • Ensure that budgetary requirements are met through careful planning of all food orders.

*Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.

Nursery Cook skills and requirements:

  • Able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of managing different dietary requirements around food allergies – essential.
  • Sound Knowledge of COSHH – essential.
  • Able to work to a catering budget, in a manner that avoids fluctuating standards of food service – essential.
  • Experience and qualified to the appropriate level in any role which involves cooking in domestic or commercial property – essential.
  • Fluent in written and spoken English at GCSE grade C (or equivalent) – essential.
  • Experienced and passionate about any role that involves cooking for young children – desirable.

We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders and skillsets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.

We are: Defined by Family

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our Safeguarding Duty.

Coton Day Nursery is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the Family First Group.

Benefits

Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.

*All perks are pro-rota for part time staff and subject to successful completion of probationary period. These perks may be subject to further conditions and can be withdrawn or reviewed at the discretion of the company.

Nursery Name

Coton Day Nursery