Nursery Kitchen Assistant
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Nursery: Wilmere Lane Nursery School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 5UR
Hours: Part Time, Monday to Friday 12.30am - 4.30pm, 20 hours per week
Salary: £12.71 per hour
Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.
About you
You have 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 Kitchen Assistant, you will be working closely with the 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
- Deputising for the Cook in all absences with the expectation of deputising full time when this is required
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:
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 & [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Support Fund
Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team app & [Employer hidden] 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.
Curious to know more?
We’d love to tell you more about what makes Wilmere Lane so special.
*[Employer hidden] 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.