Nursery Cook - St Albans, United Kingdom - Seymour House Nursery Schools

Seymour House Nursery Schools

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St Albans, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Join our exceptional team

Become a key member of our passionate nursery team who make a real difference to the lives of children and their families.

Our Nursery Kitchentakes our children on exciting taste adventures with delicious and nutritious meals and snacks.

Be at the forefront of early years nutrition and part of a fast-growing movement to help children develop healthy tastes that last a lifetime.

Join our mission to be kinder to each other, animals, and the planet.

About you

No cooking experience or qualification is necessary, but a passion for food, nutrition, child development, and working in an environment with young children is essential.
Attention to detail is key. We care for young children who need us to keep their food safe.
We work with young children, so this role requires an Enhanced DBS check.

Perks of the role

Competitive salary
28 days holiday, rising to 31 days
Nursery discounts for employees' children
Health and wellbeing resources and support
Free life coaching in the Dream Academy
Discounted gym membership
Access to a financial wellbeing service
Specsavers eyecare vouchers
Glamourous annual awards evening
Social events throughout the year
Recommend a friend bonus
The opportunity to work as part of a close, supportive, and enthusiastic team in a nursery who is recognised by Ofsted as outstanding.

Make a difference
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Get creative - delight children and parents by building exciting, weekly menus from a range of meals, sides, snacks, and desserts to meet the children's dietary needs.

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Inspire a generation:

- launch new dishes in our nursery, excite and educate our children, team, and parents about our food. Inspire children to develop a passion for food through lunch and learn, baking, growing, and tasting activities so children understand where their food comes from. Communicate with parents, visitors and team on all matters food, discussing dietary needs, our food education; how we teach children about food.
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An amazing meal deserves amazing presentation - provide the finishing touch by preparing, presenting, and serving meals and snacks each day, creating the most enjoyable mealtime experience, and quality monitor by taste testing.
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Keep us safe - be responsible for all food safety controls, allergy controls meeting dietary needs and maintain our five-star food hygiene rating.
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Be kind to the planet - control food orders and portioning to minimise food waste and reduce environmental impacts.
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Ready for anything - manage stock control to ensure we can always keep the children fuelled for learning, whatever happens.
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Be part of something special - connect with our Nursery Kitchen, to share feedback, develop recipes and improve the health and nutrition of thousands of children across the country.

Learn and grow

Work with our Nursery Kitchen Food Innovation Team to create amazing dishes for children and have a national impact.
Join the champions at Nursery Kitchen for buddy days and experience high volume cooking and dish development.
Complete a comprehensive training programme to become an early year's food expert.
Complete an apprenticeship as a Production Chef (desirable not essential).
Complete Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety for Catering.

Other Information

This job description is not exhaustive, and the post holder is required to undertake any other reasonable duties as directed by the Nursery Management Team.

Seymour House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all team members and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

An enhanced check is completed and regularly updated through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Seymour House actively promotes equal opportunities and are committed to equality and diversity for all our children and staff. Applicants will be considered on merit only, irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or belief.

A copy of the Company's Equal Opportunities Policy and Disclosure Information Policy is available on request.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£11.78-£12.74 per hour

Benefits: