Assistant Cook

Assistant Cook Leicester, England

Leicester City Council
Full Time Leicester, England 11.18 - 11.39 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Job details

Job reference
REQ2957
Date posted
07/09/2023
Application closing date
17/09/2023
Location
Taylor Road Primary School
Salary
£11.18 - £11.39 per hour
Package
Blank
Contractual hours
30
Basis
Part time
Job category/type
City Services
Attachments
Job Specification Assistant Cook .docx

Assistant Cook

Job description

Part Time / 30 Hours Per Week / Term Time / Permanent

Our city catering team are committed to providing a good quality mean to all children in order to contribute to their health wellbeing and performance. Providing catering to 78 schools withing Leicester city they provide a complete meal service.


Joining us, you’ll assist in ensuring that the service and standards provided meet the requirements, objectives and policies of City Catering and all relevant Legislation.


Working within the food production kitchen and working 30 hours a week will vary between 8.00am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday, Term Time only 38.2 weeks per year, This position is based Taylor Road Primary School, Taylor Road St Matthews, Leicester, LE1 2JP. Leycroft Road where City Catering are based will be required to work at on occasion.


What you’ll be doing


Day- to-day activities will include more than just cooking for the young people. You’ll be responsible for providing a range of nutritious and culturally diverse meal ideas. You’ll work with your unit manager and Chef to organise, arrange and prepare a menu that is creative whilst also being considerate of any special dietary requirements and culturally prohibited foods. In addition, you’ll work within a team to set up and dismantle dining room furniture, contribute towards the cleaning of premises and all equipment as well as reporting any breakdown of equipment and/or structural repairs.

You’ll be expected to always follow food hygiene rules and keep health and safety paramount in all activities.


What you’ll need


You’ll ideally have previous catering experience. You’ll be creative and confident in your approach to providing a range of dishes as requested. Holding the ability to cater for different tastes, dietary requirements and cultures e.g. gluten free, vegetarian, Asian and traditional British cuisine. This experience can be gained in employment or at home, as long as you are highly competent that can handle the pressure of cooking for masses.


You’ll have a basic food hygiene certificate and due to the nature of this post you’ll be subject to an enhanced DBS check.


What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.


If you have any questions please feel free to email Ann Merrick [email protected]

Interview date - Monday 25th September

Assistant Cook
Leicester City Council

www.leicester.gov.uk
Leicester, United Kingdom
Peter Soulsby
$100 to $500 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Government
Municipal Agencies
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