Canteen Cook (Part Time)

Berry Recruitment; Wantage; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Berry Recruitment are NOW hiring for a committed and experienced Part‑time Canteen Cook to work for a company in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The Cook role involves preparing and serving soups, salads, and paninis.

Hours are 24 per week (Mon, Wed and Thu 8am–4pm) with a salary of £14.50 per hour. The role requires cooking with attention to food safety, COSHH compliance, and budgeted stock management.

Qualifications

• Ability to cook well unsupervised and create varied options.
• Commitment to high standards of food hygiene and safety.
• Ability to work within a designated budget and manage stock.
• Willingness to communicate effectively with colleagues.
• Clean driving licence and access to a car due to rural location.

Responsibilities

• Cook and provide food for staff with fresh, healthy options.
• Innovate menu design within budget and ensure portion/quality control.
• Cater to allergies and dietary needs.
• Maintain COSHH, food safety, health and safety, and legal regulations.
• Maintain, order and control food stocks within budget.

Skills

Cooking

Food safety

Budgeting

Communication

Driving license

Job description

Berry Recruitment are NOW hiring for a committed and experienced Part‑time Canteen Cook to work for a company in Wantage, Oxfordshire.

The Cook role involves preparing and serving soups, salads, and paninis.

Responsibilities include food preparation, cooking, and maintaining food quality with efficient and timely service to customers.

No till or cash‑handling duties are involved.

Role: Part‑time Canteen Cook (24 Hours per week) – Permanent

Salary: £14.50 Per Hour

Location: Wantage, Oxfordshire

Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8am – 4pm

Key Responsibilities of the Cook:

• To cook and provide food for staff, focusing on a variety of fresh, healthy, and balanced deli‑style lunch options, including wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups, paninis, cakes and sweet treats.
• Accountable for innovative menu planning and design of food service within your own specified budget, ensuring high standard of food presentation and portion/quality control.
• Cater to individual needs e.g. allergies.
• Accountable for COSHH, food safety, health and safety, legal regulations, environment policies and duty of care to customers and colleagues.
• Maintaining, ordering and controlling food stocks within your budget.

About you:

• Must be able to cook well unsupervised and come up with new and varied food options.
• Actively seen to improve ways of working and offer suggestions.
• Must be comfortable ordering the shopping and keeping to a designated budget, cleanliness and excellent food hygiene is essential.
• Committed to achieving results through a “can do” attitude.
• Needs to be a fun lively character who is able to effectively communicate with other colleagues.
• Must have a clean driving license and own car due to rural location.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification we have listed. If your experience looks a little different but you think you can role; value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!'

We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their skills, experience, qualifications and ability to perform the role, and no applicant will be treated less favourably because of a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.