Job Title: School Cook
Location: UK-Lancashire-Leyland
Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time Only + 3 weeks
The Role:
The role of Cook is to provide good quality food, for a range of dietary needs, using fresh ingredients. The role will deliver an effective catering service with a dynamic approach to continually strive to improve the catering with new initiatives and menu ideas and distilling an enthusiasm for cooking and eating well in others.
Key Duties:
- Provide a balanced menu and diet to a high standard within budget.
- Ensure current legislation/regulations are fully met, and that records are kept up to date and are available for inspection.
- Undertake full range of management tasks for catering team, including supervisions, supporting training needs
- Create menus that are appealing and nutritionally balanced
- Prepare, cook and present home cooked food using fresh ingredients where possible ensuring appropriate portion control
- Take responsibility and ensure the smooth running of the kitchen
- Liaise with suppliers, building good relationships.
- Monitoring stock and quality control, ensuring the college remains within budget allocation.
- Undertake menu planning, to provide nutritionally balanced food, within budget.
- Ensure compliance with all regulations relating to food preparation, cooking and storage.
- Maintain the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness.
- Ordering of supplies ensuring best value
Responsibilities:
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- Relevant knowledge of regulations and standards for the catering environment.
- Key aspects of Health and Safety legislation.
- Excellent communication skills with a range of internal and external people, verbally and in writing
- Experience working with special diets and allergens
- Highly organised
- A passion for creating healthy home cooked foods with experience of cooking with a wide range of ingredients.
If you are interested in this role please apply ASAP or call Liam if you have any further questions on .
All pay rates that are offered will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. Our working opportunities include temporary positions, permanent contracts and ad-hoc supply.
Veritas Education work with a variety of schools covering a wide geographical area. We deal with teaching placements at Primary, Secondary and college level as well as support staff positions also within these.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VERITAS EDUCATION
- All applications are subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure, professional reference checks, Overseas Police Clearances (if applicable) in line with our stringent safeguarding policy
- Your CV must cover the last 10 years of employment history where possible and all employment breaks must be explained
- You must have legal right to work in the UK
- You must be willing to attend a registration interview
Veritas Education work with a variety of schools covering a wide geographical area. We deal with teaching placements at Primary, Secondary and college level as well as support staff positions also within these.
Disclaimer
'Nothing within the above advert was in any way designed or intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Veritas Education is an Equal opportunities employer and is proud in the knowledge that all placements are made on merit and suitability. We accept applications from all sections of the community.'