Job Description
Nursery: Children 1st Leicester Nursery School by Storal
Address: Tarragon Road, Leicester LE2 7ET
Hours: 35 hours per week. 8am till 3pm
Salary: £13.25 per hour
Remarkable Futures Start Here
Can you help us make mealtimes the best part of a child’s day?
Storal’s Purpose
To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.
How you’ll spend your time here
As a Nursery Chef/Cook, you’ll prepare nutritious, freshly made meals whilst maintaining the highest standards of safety and hygiene in the nursery kitchen at all times. Your flexibility and reliability will ensure the smooth operation of the kitchen.
Managing the kitchen
Cooking and preparing all meals from scratch with fresh local food
Catering for children with specific dietary needs
Working to an extremely high level when it comes to the relevant Food and Hygiene, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health-Food Safety, Health and Safety and Ofsted guidelines and regulations
Ensuring that all children have rich stimulating eating experiences
Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation
Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines
We’d love to talk to you if you have the following
Experience within a busy kitchen environment
Demonstrable experience as a skilled Cook ideally in a School or Nursery setting
Minimum NVQ level 1 or 2 in Catering or equivalent
Excellent culinary skills
Attention to detail
Strong teamwork skills are essential
Ability to conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times with excellent customer service skills
Ability to work on your own initiative
Benefits for You
· For you - We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain
· Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave
· Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets
· Development - Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund
· Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards
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Click apply today, don’t worry if your CV isn’t perfect just send us what you have and we’ll work out the rest later.
Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.
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