Mobile Cook-in-Charge

Gwynedd Council; Reading; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Gwynedd Council is seeking a Kitchen Supervisor to cover for the Cook in Charge, planning, preparing and serving meals in school kitchens and training staff on site.

You will ensure food safety, health and safety compliance, manage stock and ordering, supervise kitchen assistants, and support events and special functions as required.

Flexibility for unsocial hours, commitment to equality and safeguarding, and the ability to work as part of a school team are essential.

Qualifications

• Must have basic food hygiene
• Nutrition and diet qualification (Level 2) within 3 months of employment
• Full driving licence and car for work (business use)
• Experience supervising kitchen staff
• Knowledge of Health and Safety in food prep and service
• Ability to plan menus, order food and manage stock

Responsibilities

• Provide food, including menu planning, ordering, quantities, and cooking.
• Comply with Health and Safety and Food Safety regulations affecting staff and users.
• Supervise and train kitchen staff; allocate duties and organise work.
• Arrange and supervise food service and serving.
• Ensure staff receive Health and Safety and Food Safety induction training.
• Maintain kitchen hygiene and safety standards.
• Oversee equipment maintenance and security of the kitchen.
• Perform administrative duties: ordering supplies, stock records, event logs.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Welsh-English bilingual

Interpersonal skills

Education

Basic food hygiene

Nutrition and diet qualification (Level 2)

Full driving licence

Car owner for business use

Staff supervisor qualifications

Craft cooking qualification

Health and Safety training (moving/handling or first aid)

Selling skills training

Job description

Purpose of the post

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
• To go to kitchens at short notice because of the absence of the Cook in Charge. To prepare, supervise and organise food production and service in a kitchen. Occasionally assist with functions and provide kitchen staff one to one training.

Responsibility for functions

• Staff
• Equipment

Main duties

• Provide food - to include menu planning, ordering food, managing food quantities, prepare and cook food.
• Comply with Health and Safety requirements and Food Safety that affects staff and other persons who may be using, visiting the site.
• Ensure that good work practices are used by all Catering Staff and that the requirements of any relevant statutory provisions and Gwynedd Council Policies are met.
• Arrange and supervise the food service including serving the food.
• Supervise kitchen staff. Allocate duties, organise work and provide training.
• Ensure that every member of kitchen staff receives Health and Safety and Food Safety Induction Training before they begin to work.
• Supervise and manage kitchen hygiene, health and safety.
• Security of the kitchen and the kitchen area by locking and unlocking the kitchen.
• Ensure kitchen equipment is repaired and maintained.
• Administrative duties such as ordering supplies, recording food stock, completing monthly fact sheets, confirming daily events are recorded in the cook's log.
• Prepare food and serve food at special functions.
• Any other duties following a reasonable request.
• Responsibility for self-development.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsibility to report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

• There will be a need to prepare food outside normal hours of work e.g. In Service Training days.
• There is an expectation on the post holder to co-operate with the emergency planning arrangement for Gwynedd Council, to open the kitchen and provide food for people in an emergency and to move to other kitchens where help is required in an emergency.
• To work in kitchens when Cooks are absent, or where there is a vacant post for the period of the absence or vacancy.

Personal attributesEssential

• To be able to work as part of a team (School team and kitchen team)
• No history of food related illness (ref page D-7 Kitchen Manual - Pre-employment questionnaire)
• Desirable Self motivated, happy disposition.
• Knowledge of healthy food and nutrition
• To be sociable and treat people with respect
• Of clean and tidy appearance
• Good personal hygiene

Qualifications and relevant trainingEssential

• Basic food hygiene
• Nutrition and diet qualification or complete a level 2 course within 3 months of employment.
• Full driving licence
• Car owner and prepared to use own car for work (Business use on Car Insurance)
• Desirable Staff supervisor qualifications
• Craft cooking qualification
• Training in food production skills
• Training in food service skills.
• Training in Health and Safety, e.g. moving and handling or first aid.
• Training in selling skills.

Relevant experienceEssential

• Cooking in a commercial kitchen or kitchen similar to a school kitchen
• Desirable Experience of being employed in a food production environment
• Menu planning, ordering food and writing recipes
• Recording and reporting catering costs
• Quality assurance systems

Skills and specialist knowledgeEssential

• Taking part in group work and effectively communicating in a group
• Desirable Good interpersonal skills
• Desirable Good communication skills
• Marketing food business

Language requirements

• Listening and Speaking - Entry Able to pronounce the names of places and people correctly. Able to follow instructions and understand simple conversation through the medium of Welsh and English on familiar matters and respond to simple requests for information
• Reading and Understanding - Entry Able to read and understand short and simple letters, e-mails, leaflets, and signs in Welsh and English on familiar everyday issues, in order to convey them to someone else.
• Writing - Entry Able to write a simple message requesting or giving information about familiar everyday issues in the workplace.

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.