Nursery Cook / Chef

Storal Learning Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading early years education provider in Manchester is seeking a dedicated Nursery Cook to join their team. The role involves preparing nutritious meals, maintaining hygiene standards, and catering for children with specific dietary needs. The ideal candidate will have Level 2 Food and Hygiene certification and experience in a commercial kitchen. Benefits include a performance-related bonus, staff discounts, health and wellness support, and professional development opportunities, ensuring a fulfilling workplace experience.

Benefits

Performance related bonus

50% childcare discount

Wellness day

Access to pay before payday

Enhanced holidays

Paid sick pay

Enhanced maternity leave

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Level 2 Food and Hygiene certification is essential.
• Experience as an assistant cook/chef in a commercial kitchen is required.
• Solid understanding of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH.

Responsibilities

• Prepare nutritious, freshly made meals for children.
• Maintain highest standards of safety and hygiene in the nursery kitchen.
• Cater for children with specific dietary needs.
• Ensure food safety compliance with relevant guidelines.
• Maintain stock levels and ensure proper stock rotation.

Skills

Level 2 Food and Hygiene

Experience in a commercial kitchen

Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations

Job description

Nursery: The Learning Hive, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5GB

Hours: 30 hours per week Monday to Friday

Salary: Up to £13 per hour dependent on qualifications and experience

Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.

Hi, I’m Louise, the Nursery Manager at The Learning Hive.

Every day at The Learning Hive, we inspire our children to be inquisitive, imaginative, and confident learners. Through our carefully designed environments and nurturing approach, our children quickly develop a genuine love of learning and a curious mind.

We’re proud to have been providing high-quality early years education for over 20 years, supporting families from our local community and beyond. Our spacious, converted Victorian home offers a warm and inspiring setting—where every room is filled with rich learning opportunities. Outdoors, our garden spaces are designed for adventure, using natural resources that spark imagination and deepen our children’s connection with the world around them.

Our experienced and passionate team brings a wealth of early years expertise. We know that every child is unique, with their own story to tell, so we tailor our approach to suit each child’s pace, personality, and interests—ensuring they feel supported, seen, and celebrated.

Who & What is Storal?

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily apart of here at The Learning Hive. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community.

About you

You are a dedicated, Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualified cook with a solid understanding of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH and you're looking for a new role in a fun, friendly team, where you can thrive and make the most of your culinary skills.

What you'll be doing

As a Nursery Cook, you’ll assist in preparing nutritious, freshly made meals while maintaining the highest standards of safety and hygiene in the nursery kitchen at all times. Your flexibility and reliability will ensure the smooth operation of the kitchen.

Day to day you will find yourself;

• Catering for children with specific dietary needs
• Working to an extremely high level when it comes to the relevant Food and Hygiene, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health-Food Safety, Health and Safety and Ofsted guidelines and regulations
• Ensuring that all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating eating experiences
• Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation
• Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines

What you'll need

• Level 2 Food and Hygiene
• Experience in a commercial kitchen as an assistant cook/chef or something very similar
• Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH

Why work for us

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

We care about our people.

Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.