Community Chef Educator
Company Shop Group
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Job summary
Company Shop Group's Community Kitchen in Grimsby is seeking a dedicated Chef Educator to lead our culinary initiatives and drive positive social impact within the store.
You will cook nutritious meals from surplus stock, deliver training, and work with partners to extend community reach while upholding health and safety policies.
Qualifications
- Strong culinary background is essential.
- NVQ level 2 in Catering or equivalent is required.
- Food hygiene level 2 or above is required.
- Knowledge of HACCP and food safety practices is essential.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver Community Kitchen’s culinary development programmes.
- Promote and support local communities through engaging activities.
- Deliver in-house training and development programmes.
- Work with cross-sector partners to maximise social impact.
- Ensure Health, Safety & Environmental policies are upheld.
- Engage and motivate teams across departments to deliver results.
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships to support social impact.
Skills
Education
Job description
Would you like be part of of our Nunshthorpe Community Shop in Grimsby?
Are you passionate about making a difference through food?
Join Our Team: Community Chef Educator at Community Kitchen!
Company Shop Group is the largest commercial redistributor of surplus food and household products in the UK, enabling some of the biggest retailers, manufacturers, food service and logistics providers to unlock value from surplus stock, which may have otherwise gone to waste.
The surplus we handle is redistributed through our Company Shop stores and our award-winning social enterprise Community Shop where we build stronger individuals and more confident communities. Working with our partners, we deliver an incredible impact and we're proud to be a good business doing good.
Community Kitchen is seeking a dedicated Chef Educator to lead our culinary initiatives and drive positive change within our Grimsby store.
You will need to be able to think on your feet and use your culinary expertise to produce freshly cooked, nutritious meals. But also, it is essential that you will be confident and supportive in the delivery of our Community Kitchen programmes and community-based initiatives that align in response to your community’s needs. You will need to be ready and willing to create positive changes in our members and to question and rethink concepts, assumptions and practises.
Working closely with internal and external stakeholders you will be able to demonstrate your leadership, initiative and ability to work effectively in a capacity that reflects Community shop’s values.
- Ability to work with the various challenges of daily changing, surplus food stocks and be able to create nutritious meals.
- Lead and deliver Community Kitchen’s Social Impact and culinary development programmes including the promotion and support of local communities through engaging activities.
- Assist retail and hub in driving membership to broaden Community Kitchen’s Social Impact.
- The delivery of in-house training and development programmes
- Work closely with other organisations in the wider not-for-profit, social enterprise, public and private sectors – with the aim of taking forward new social impact opportunities that maximise the synergistic and financial benefits of joint working to benefit local people and members.
- Build understanding within the social sector and beyond Community Shop to help in the development of our social impact, business offer.
- Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practises are upheld
- Engage your team both within your department and within other departments to support cross functional and positive working relationships
- Employ a supportive and high performing culture with consistent delivery, through excellent leadership and motivation, that fully utilises and develops your teams’ skills and capabilities
- Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your wider department teams.
- A strong culinary background
- NVQ level 2 in Catering ( or similar qualifications )
- Food hygiene level 2 or above.
- Knowledge of HACCP
- Experience delivering effective cooking / training programmes
- Experience working with vulnerable individuals
- Experience gained within a community-based setting
PLEASE NOTE: The successful candidate will be required to have a DBS check carried out as part of the offer process.
Join us in empowering our community through food!
- Free membership to Company Shop for you and 10 x nominees
- 10% colleague discount card
- Contributory pension scheme
- Annual Flu Injections, High Street and Leisure discounts and on-site Parking
- Subsidised staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday
- Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid
- Eligible for Costco membership and Cycle 2 Work
- Life assurance benefit
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