Mental Health - Chef / Cook

5 Star Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

5 Star Recruitment is seeking a Mental Health - Chef / Cook to provide catering services within policy, procedures and budget at the Socialicious Café.

You will prepare and deliver food and drinks to a high standard, maintain hygiene, assist with Barista training, and help manage stock and daily petty cash.

This role requires team working, adaptability in a café environment, and a person centred approach. Experience in kitchen management and café operations is preferred.

Qualifications

• Catering and Barista qualifications.
• Catering and food preparation experience.
• To control stock and daily petty cash experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and deliver food and drinks to quality standards.
• Maintain high levels of food hygiene and health & safety.
• Assist with Barista training and on-site service.
• Manage stock and daily petty cash where applicable.
• Support team to ensure smooth cafe operations.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the line manager.

Skills

Catering

Barista

Stock control

Petty cash

Education

City & Guilds/706/1&2 NVQ Food Hygiene

Job description

About the job Mental Health - Chef / Cook

Job purpose

To provide catering services to customers whilst remaining within our policy, procedures, and budget. To promote services and activities with our Socialicious Café.

Key accountabilities

To maintain a high level of quality in service provision by:-

• Meeting quality expectations and agreed performance criteria
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of the service

To continuously review own performance and development needs to assist growth and development by:-

• Meetings agreeing own task and development objectives and reviewing these and overall performance against the competency framework.
• Participating in training and other development opportunities as agreed within the Performance Management process.

To assist in facilitating the accredited onsite Barista training.

To ensure a safe working environment for self, colleagues and customers by:-

• Ensuring good standard of housekeeping is maintained with own area
• Ensuring risk assessments are completed when appropriate
• Taking personal responsibility for own safety e.g. reporting concerns, ensuring appropriate health & safety is in place.
• Complying with all Health & Safety and Risk Policies Complying to food hygiene regulations

To ensure compliance with internal and external standards and codes of conduct by-

Meeting all regulatory requirements Complying with our Code of Conduct, policies and procedures

To undertake any other duties reasonably requested by the line manager

To proactively deliver a high quality/person centred catering services that meets the needs of the service by:-

Promoting peoples rights and responsibilities

Working as an effective member of the team Providing advice and information to Service Users in training and others where appropriate

Preparing and delivering food and drinks to quality standards Ensuring record keeping is maintained to the required standard at all times and contributing to service monitoring requirements

Ensuring full risk assessments and risk management is delivered effectively

Ensuring that work is undertaken in line with Health & Safety requirements and hygiene is maintained at all times

Ensuring stock rotation and control is monitored Completion of daily petty cash returns

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Personal effectiveness

Catering and Barista qualifications

Catering and food preparation experience

To control stock and daily petty cash experience

Technical effectiveness

Proven verbal and written communication skills

Adaptable and able to work in a challenging and changeable environment

Ability to deliver against agreed objectives/targets

Acquired experience

Display an awareness of and understanding of a person-centred approach

Display an awareness of current legislation that impacts upon and influences service delivery

Making sure that all food at point of service is of the highest quality.

Ability to prioritise workload and use initiative so as to work effectively with minimum supervision.

To work as part of a team and alone

Responsible for high standards of food, hygiene and health and safety.

Experience of kitchen management and budget control

Experience of catering within a similar environment

Experience of working within a café setting

Qualifications

Possess the City & Guilds/706/1&2 or equivalent NVQ Food Hygiene