Lead Culinary Education for Community Kitchen

Company Shop Group; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

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

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.