Community Chef Educator

Company Shop Group

Sunderland

On-site

GBP 28,000 - 32,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Free membership to Company Shop foryou

Pension scheme

Annual Flu injections

Staff discounts

Canteen facilities

Tea & Coffee

Grocery Aid

Cycle 2 Work

UK Fuel card discounts

Life assurance

Job summary

Company Shop Group is seeking a dedicated Community Chef Educator to lead culinary initiatives at the Hendon Community Shop in Sunderland. You will create nutritious meals from surplus stock and deliver engaging cooking programmes for local residents.

You’ll work with internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating leadership and a commitment to the Community Kitchen’s social impact while ensuring high standards of health and safety across activities.

Qualifications

Strong culinary background.
NVQ level 2 in Catering required.
Food hygiene level 2 or above required.
Knowledge of HACCP.

Responsibilities

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.

Skills

Strong culinary background

Education

NVQ level 2 in Catering

Food hygiene level 2

HACCP knowledge

Job description

Would you like be part of of our Community Shop in Hendon, Sunderland.

Are you passionate about making a difference through food?

Join Our Team: Community Chef Educator at Community Kitchen!

About us

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.

About the role

Community Kitchen is seeking a dedicated Chef Educator to lead our culinary initiatives and drive positive change within our Hendon store in Sunderland.

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.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

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.

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