nursery cook
Responsibility
- 40 hour per week contract, however hours can be negotiable to suit your work life balance
- use appropriate Early Years documents such as Food Matters, Setting the Table to plan new with the nutritional guidelines
- we have fresh ingredients delivered to the setting each week and are proud to serve all organic fruit and vegetables
Show more +17 - day to day running of the kitchen, compliance with registration and legislative requirements at all times
- st Margarets Nursery & Pre-school are hiring an enthusiastic chef/cook to join our team to cover maternity until October 2024, with the opportunity to stay full-time on the team
- to organise, cook and prepare healthy, balanced meals for 121 children per day aged 0 to 5 years in accordance with our nursery menus
- st Margarets Nursery & Preschool have a 3-week menu which changes seasonally
- responsible for control, storage and rotation of kitchen stock. Weekly deliveries
- we are looking for someone who has a passion for food and fresh ideas to create inspiring and tasty dishes for our children
- ensure high standards of hygiene and health and safety is maintained in the kitchen at all times using Cook Safe guidance and documentation
- as we are Edinburgh’s second largest nursery we have many children who have special allergies and dietary requirements and the chef/cook will prepare a suitable and safe alternatives
- on a daily basis that all crockery, cutlery and cooking utensils are washed in accordance with food safety guidelines
- our nursery is open from 8am – 6pm, Monday to Fridays – no weekend work
- st Margarets Nursery & Pre-school also have a kitchen assistant, who would support you in the day-to-day duties, dishes, preparing food, stock rotation, ordering and cooking
- to have the responsibility of the kitchen, cleaning all of the equipment and appliances, take temperatures of the food, fridge and freezer and record these in the kitchen file
- ensure that all meals and snacks are ready at the specified time and correctly served
- we would love someone with the desire to create new meals, add additional tastes to our menu and constantly look for ways to improve our service
- maintain and keep up to date necessary kitchen procedures and records in accordance with Nursery and Environmental Health policies and processes by Environmental Health - Edinburgh Council
- we get the children involved with our menus and food tasting, we would welcome anyone who is confident in discussing with the children health benefits and various topics related to food/kitchen
- ensure the kitchen and equipment is kept to a high standard of cleanliness at all times including walls, floors and trolleys to transport food following a cleaning schedule
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