Nursery Cook / Chef

Nursery Support Children Nursery Cook / Chef

Nursery: Children 1st Leicester Nursery School by Storal

Address: Tarragon Road, Leicester LE2 7ET
Hours: 35 hours per week. 8am till 3pm
Salary: £13.25 per hour

Remarkable Futures Start Here

Can you help us make mealtimes the best part of a child's day?

Storal's Purpose

To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.

How you'll spend your time here

As a Nursery Chef/Cook, you'll prepare nutritious, freshly made meals whilst 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.

• Managing the kitchen
• Cooking and preparing all meals from scratch with fresh local food
• Catering for children with specific dietary needs
• Working to a high level regarding Food and Hygiene, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health-Food Safety, Health and Safety and Ofsted guidelines and regulations
• Ensuring that all children have rich stimulating eating experiences
• Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation
• Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines

We'd love to talk to you if you have the following

• Experience within a busy kitchen environment
• Demonstrable experience as a skilled Cook ideally in a School or Nursery setting
• Minimum NVQ level 1 or 2 in Catering or equivalent
• Excellent culinary skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong teamwork skills are essential
• Ability to conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times with excellent customer service skills
• Ability to work on your own initiative

Benefits for You

For you - We get the basics right: enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly), and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain.

Family matters - Balance starts at home: Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave.

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

Development - Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund.

Our community - Growing together: Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards.

Storal sets the highest standards when it comes to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that 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 thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.