Role: Ref 11976 - Nursery Cook
Location: Langport, Somerset
Salary: Up to £27,000 per annum (pro-rata)
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Part Time - 25 hours per week (9 months)
Closing date: Midnight on 10th May 2024
Benefits: Annual leave of 25 days plus public holidays, gain professional qualifications with excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity/adoption/paternity packages, a pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate (plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover), staff discount portal with your favourite brands, Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers. For more information check out our career's portal.
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About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:
- A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
- Flexible working - wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
- Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
- Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.
Spring The Levels offers affordable, high-quality childcare in Somerset, alongside its sister settings. Spring the Levels is a 36-place nursery based in The Levels Childrens Centre in Langport.
The nursery prides itself on creating child led opportunities for babies and children to learn, develop confidence and have fun providing high quality childcare.
We are looking for a Nursery Cook who can use their initiative and is passionate about the importance of nutrition, being part of the nursery team, you will adhere to our healthy eating menus, oversee, plan, order and prepare meals for children ensuring that hygiene standards are adhered to. We would also like our Cook to get involved with cooking with the children and helping in the nursery to cover lunches.
What you'll be doing:
- Planning healthy meals, with staff that are nutritious, varied and tasty, taking into account the children's dietary and cultural requirements.
- Taking full responsibility for compliance with all relevant food hygiene and Health & Safety requirements.
- Ensuring that all stock is order and replenished as needed, that food is correctly stored in line with guidance and that stock is rotated and all equipment is kept clean and in good repair.
- Keeping waste to a minimum, ensuring our impact on the environment is as minimal as it can be, and costs are kept low
- Managing the food budget and taking responsibility for the expenditure and invoicing.
- Always following latest legislation in relation to food and food hygiene and taking part in all necessary and required training as needed.
What we need from you
In the role of Nursery Cook, we're ideally looking for someone who has;
- A Basic food hygiene certificate - Level 3 preferred but can be obtained in the role.
- A passion for cooking and following the spring menu and inputting new ideas and recipes into menu updates.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Experience in a similar role working in a catering environment.
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Application Process
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.