Job Description
Location: North West - Manchester, Stoke on Trent, Winchester
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, Full Time
Salary £15 per hour dependent on qualification and experiences
Travel allowance
Are you looking for a Chef role with variety and flexibility?
In this role, you’ll work across multiple Storal nurseries, supporting our kitchen teams by providing holiday, sickness and operational cover. You’ll gain experience in different settings, build relationships with a range of teams, and further develop your skills while ensuring children receive nutritious, freshly prepared meals every day.
If you have Level 2 Food Hygiene, kitchen experience and a passion for creating nutritious meals for children, we’d love to hear from you!
Who & What is Storal?
It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily a part of here at Blueberry. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community.
About you
You are a dedicated, Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualified cook with a solid understanding of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH and you're looking for a new role in a fun, friendly team, where you can thrive and make the most of your culinary skills.
What you'll be doing
As a Nursery Cook, you’ll assist in preparing nutritious, freshly made meals while 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.
Day to day you will find yourself;
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 are kept safe and have rich stimulating eating experiences
Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation
Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines
What you'll need
Level 2 Food and Hygiene
Experience in a commercial kitchen as an assistant cook/chef or something very similar
Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH
Why work for us:
Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees
Refuel Benefits- access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay
Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching
Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime
Plus, many more.
We care about our people.
Curious to know more?
Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the 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.