Job Title: Nursery Cook/Chef

Reports to: Nursery Manager

Location: East London (EC1)

Salary Banding: £27,500 – £31,000 per annum

Our client is seeking a dedicated Nursery Cook/Chef to join their team. The role involves managing all aspects of the nursery kitchen to the highest standards, in line with legislation requirements, and supporting other locations as needed.

Main purpose of the role:

To provide nutritious homemade meals to all the children who attend the nursery school.

While ensuring all food is prepared and stored in line with regulations and upholds all

children’s dietary requirements and weaning stages. To understand how to meet this

requirement, as stated in the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition guidance’. All staff have

a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults.

Dress Code:

* Hair to be tied back if touching your collar with hair / beard net to be worn if necessary

* Hair to be a natural colour

* No prominent tattoos on display

* Small and appropriate jewellery items only to be worn

* No fake nails or nail varnish

* No rings with the exception of the wedding band

* Chef trousers, chef coat, and apron to be worn. A spare clean top and apron must be

onsite daily.

Role:

* Preparing a suitably balanced rotating menu considering dietary and cultural

requirements of the children in line with the Senior Manager’s requirements.

* The preparation and cooking of all foods in accordance with the daily menus and for

special functions.

* Preventing cross contamination of food within the kitchen area.

* Ensuring that all foods are ready at the specified time and correctly served. Ensuring

that the correct food is served to children with known allergies, as notified to you by the

Room Managers daily.

* Making sure that all foods are covered prior to serving and labelled as required. Also

ensuring that foods stored in the refrigerator are adequately covered and labelled.

* Ordering stock in line with requirements, keeping accounts and budget control.

Maintaining correct stock levels, ensuring stock rotation, and ensuring all stock is clearly

labelled to include expiry dates.

* Monitoring and recording in writing the temperature of fridges and freezers daily.

Working in line with Safer Food Better Business Manual.

* Temperatures of high-risk food must be recorded at time of delivery and cooking. All

food must be stored and served at the temperatures required by the Chartered Institute

of Environmental Health-Food Safety.

* Ensuring the kitchen and equipment is kept suitably clean at all times including walls,

floors, and trolleys to transport food following a cleaning schedule. On a daily basis that

all crockery, cutlery, and cooking utensils are washed and sterilised in accordance with

food safety guidelines.

* Ensuring the effective and regular removal of waste materials to the designated waste

store.

* Any other duties appropriate to the post as directed by the Senior Manager or Deputy.

Worldwide Education is committed to safeguarding children and young people. We take our responsibilities extremely seriously and thus, all staff we register will undertake thorough interviewing and referencing checks and hold, or be prepared to undergo, an Enhanced DBS check that must be registered on the Update Service. This is inclusive of Teaching Assistant

About Worldwide Education:

Worldwide Education is a market-leading Education Recruitment and Supply Agency committed to the learning and development of young people. We are an employer of choice for High Quality educational Settings.

What does Worldwide Education offer?

As a valued employee of Worldwide Education, you will receive:

• Excellent hourly/ daily rates paid weekly or monthly via our dedicated Umbrella Companies or PAYE Internal Payroll System
• Pension contributions (subject to a qualifying period).
• Full compliance with AWR (Agency Workers’ Regulations), to make sure you get the pay and working conditions you are entitled to.
• FREE training to help with your professional development such as Team Teach, and CPD Training worth over £350.
• £50 refer a friend or colleague bonus scheme.
• Employee assistance programme
• Access to a dedicated consultant, who will provide ongoing support.
• Worldwide Education Uniform

How to apply

If you are a Nursery Cook who can enthuse, motivate, and engage students and would like the challenge of working in a demanding and rewarding environment, then we want to hear from you. Send your CV by directly applying to this ad or alternatively visit our website and register your details.