Cook (Althorpe & Keadby Primary)

North Lincolnshire Council; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 9,000 - 12,000; Part time

Job summary

North Lincolnshire Council is seeking friendly, reliable individuals to join our School Kitchen Team. You’ll prepare and serve nutritious meals for pupils, lead a small team and help maintain high standards of service.

This fixed-term role runs three days per week during term time (Mon-Wed) and requires you to meet hygiene, safeguarding and basic literacy/numeracy requirements. Apply to join a caring, busy school kitchen.

Qualifications

• A caring attitude and a team spirit.
• Excellent cooking skills and presentation.
• Good communication skills – especially with children
• Basic literacy and numeracy.
• Food hygiene level 2, training in allergens, and safeguarding

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve nutritious school meals.
• Leading your team to provide excellent customer service
• Completing orders and managing stock control
• Liaising with school and the service to promote our service and increase meal uptake
• Controlling kitchen costs.
• Following and managing hygiene and safety procedures
• Completing kitchen paperwork (e.g. cleaning schedules, temperature logs payroll)

Skills

Team spirit

Cooking skills

Child communication

Literacy & numeracy

Education

Basic literacy and numeracy

Job description

Join Our School Kitchen Team!

We’re looking for friendly, reliable and enthusiastic individuals to help make lunchtimes a great experience for our pupils. If you enjoy working with children and have a passion for great customer service, this could be the perfect role for you!

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Prepare and serve nutritious school meals.
• Leading your team to provide excellent customer service
• Completing orders and managing stock control
• Liaising with school and the service to promote our service and increase meal uptake
• Controlling kitchen costs.
• Following and managing hygiene and safety procedures
• Completing kitchen paperwork (e.g. cleaning schedules, temperature logs payroll)

What We’re Looking For

• A caring attitude and a team spirit.
• Excellent cooking skills and presentation.
• Good communication skills – especially with children
• Basic literacy and numeracy.
• Food hygiene level 2, training in allergens, and safeguarding

This is a physically active role in a busy school kitchen, so you’ll need to be comfortable with standing, lifting, and working at pace. Flexibility is appreciated, especially during school events.

This post is for three days per week, term time only (Mon to Wed)

It is a fixed term position until 1st April 27.

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

For an informal discussion please contact Nick Parker on 07717 587925

Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.