Caterlink Assistant Chef

WSH Group; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A school catering service is seeking an organized and passionate Assistant Chef/Cook in Wakefield. This role focuses on providing nutritionally balanced and tasty meals, enhancing service quality, and ensuring high food safety standards. The position offers a great work-life balance, term-time only hours, and opportunities for professional development. Join us to support future generations with delicious meals.

Benefits

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Blended learning and development opportunities

Pension scheme eligibility

Great work/life balance with term-time only work

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering efficient service to students.
• Strong understanding of food safety and health procedures.
• Ability to manage kitchen teams and menus.

Responsibilities

• Assist with planning, preparing, and cooking meals to standard.
• Ensure food quality, presentation, and service meet requirements.
• Brief kitchen teams and manage service effectively.

Skills

Culinary Experience

Food Preparation Experience

Kitchen Experience

Cooking

Knife Skills

Job description

We are looking for an Assistant Chef / Cook at Dane Royd Junior and Infants in Wakefield who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. We are looking for an organised hard-working and passionate individual to ensure that the food quality presentation and service are provided to the required standard. You should be passionate about delivering an efficient service to our students whilst ensuring we maintain great customer service and high food safety standards.

The role :

• 13.00 per hour
• 30 hours per week working Monday-Friday
• Term-time only working 38 weeks per year

You will assist with all planning preparing and cooking of meals to the required standard and you will ensure that the companys reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers. Other tasks will include briefing kitchen teams on menus and service ensuring all food safety and health and safety procedures are applied continuously and carry out company bookwork.

Caterlink is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role

Caterlink strives to always provide a diverse equitable and inclusive environment for all our teams where every individual is treated with respect integrity and has the opportunity to grow and be treated equally and with fairness at all times.

Additional Information :

There are many advantages to working for us including :

• With Caterlink you have the opportunity to a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications including Apprenticeships classroom training eLearning and on the job training to support and encourage your development and enable you to be the best you can be. Everyone who joins us is provided with an induction where they learn more about us and enable them to be the best they can be. We invest in development opportunities and are always looking to recruit train and retain the best people for our own future talent and your own future development.
• Working for Caterlink ensure you are able to enjoy a great work / life balance this is the beauty of working term-time only and no weekends!
• We offer you access to our Employee Discount Platform where you can make great savings at supermarkets cinema restaurants as well as holiday discounts family days out and many more!
• Our Employee Assistance Programand Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time
• You may be eligible to join our Pensionscheme

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Skills

Culinary Experience, Restaurant Experience, Food Preparation Experience, Food Service, Kitchen Experience, Catering, Serving Experience, Cooking, Dietary Department Experience, Baking, Knife Skills, Meal Preparation

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1