Lead Cook
Role: Lead Cook
Salary: £17784 per annum.
Hours: 37.5 hrs/week, full-time,
Contract: permanent contract
Woodlands Outdoor Education Centre, is part of Oxfordshire Outdoors, managed by Groundwork South Trust Limited. We provide high quality residential and outdoor education courses for schools. This is mainly term time working with some occasional non term time and weekend work. The centre is highly regarded by all of our visitors many of whom come back year after year. You would be joining a friendly team of staff who enjoy the positive impact we have on the young people that visit us.
We also require a full time Lead Cook to join our team to work mainly Monday to Friday, responsible for catering including menu planning and food orders, providing evening meals and lunches.
For further information or to request an application pack please contact Service Lead and Centre Manager, Chris Pierce on 01497 847272 or email chris.pierce@oxfordshireoutdoors.co.uk.
MAIN DUTIES INCLUDE:
- To design and implement menus appropriate to the group in residence, ensuring all specific dietary needs are met
- To ensure meals prepared for school aged groups meet with the relevant nutritional standards
- To manage the preparation; cooking and serving of meals, ensuring high quality performance is achieved
- To wash up and clear away following meal serving
- To ensure catering budgets are adhered to
- To ensure efficient and appropriate stock control is in place
- To ensure that appropriate best practice standards of food hygiene; record keeping and health and safety are maintained
- To ensure highest possible rating of environmental health inspection (or other appropriate inspection)
- To work with Service colleagues to promote Healthy Living to Service users
- To ensure the kitchen, servery and dining rooms meet with handover standards and requirements
- To inform line management of any defects in equipment; premises or of issues not meeting health and safety legislation and food hygiene regulation requirements
Our Organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share in this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
To further information or to request an application pack please contact Chris Pierce on 01497 847272 or email chris.pierce@oxfordshireoutdoors.co.uk
Please send to Laura Dyke on ldyke @groundwork.org.uk or post to Riverside Community Centre, Dickens Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2JY.
Closing Date: 21st April 2021.
Application Pack
Cook JD March 2021 Woodlands OEC updated
Groundwork South is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable groups. Inline with our Safer Recruitment & Selection Policy and Procedure, successful applicants are subject to references and an enhanced with barred lists disclosure check.
CVs will not be accepted. No agencies please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that we reserve the right to close applications early in the event of a large response.
We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. To demonstrate our commitment we have been awarded the Disability Confident Scheme Symbol, which is awarded by the Employment Service. We guarantee an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. If you consider yourself to have a disability and would like to apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme please complete the Guaranteed Interview Scheme form (at the top of our current vacancies page) and submit this with your application. We shall ensure fairness and equal opportunities throughout our workforce and in service delivery.
Groundwork South is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age. A copy of our Equality and Diversity policy may also be made available to candidates on request.