Job Type: | permanent | Duration: | |
Category: | Food / Bar / Hospitality | Recruiter Reference: | 982687 |
URL for Applications: | Apply Here | Salary: |
Do you enjoy cooking healthy, nutritious, and sustainable meals?
Use your skills to help us work towards our Environmental Education charity’s mission to create outstanding opportunities for everyone to learn about nature.
What you’ll be doing
As our Lead Cook you’re a key part of our Hospitality and Catering team! You’ll be responsible for delivering an efficient, hygienic, and safe catering operation at our Field Studies Centre, which involves both hands on cooking and management of the catering team.
Please view the vacancy pack for further details on the full responsibilities of this role.
Where you’ll be based
The Field Studies Council Blencathra centre is in a magnificent setting, with unrivalled views of the Lake District. Imagine taking in these surroundings on your lunchbreak!
We welcome over 9,000 visitors each year from schools, colleges, universities, and other organisations. Our visitors come from all over the UK, and for many it is their first trip to the Lake District World Heritage Site.
We have been awarded the Soil Association’s Food for Life Served Here Bronze Award which recognises organisations which go the extra mile to make sure visitors are receiving healthy, nutritious, and sustainable meals.
Who we’re looking for
You will have previous catering experience which includes some management experience, a catering qualification or relevant vocational experience and experience of monitoring and recording all catering functions in accordance with safe practices ensuring compliance at all times e.g. HACCP, Safer Food Better Business. In addition to:
Does this sound like the new opportunity you have been looking for? Come and be part of the team! We look forward to your application.
Your benefits whilst working with us will include:
We value each of our team members and understand that every role is vital to deliver our mission, so, we provide great benefits to reward and support you while you work with us.
If you have any queries regarding this vacancy, please call Andy Bucklebury on 017687 79601
Applications will be considered on arrival.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we’re in receipt of sufficient applications. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at Field Studies Council Blencathra on a rolling basis.
Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email.