| Job Type: | permanent | Duration: | |
| Category: | Food / Bar / Hospitality | Recruiter Reference: | Ref/1666/4227 |
| URL for Applications: | Apply Here | Salary: | £24294 - £25979 |
Grafham Water Centre is looking to appoint a Cook. The primary mission is to take full responsibility for the catering facilities and supervise all staff when they are working in these areas. To assist in the running of the catering department in an economical and efficient way, offering an excellent and safe service to customers. To ensure meals and service are delivered to a high standard, and that set policies and procedures are adhered to.
This is achieved by performing various tasks including general cleaning, kitchen setup and preparation, ensuring food safety, partaking in food production & packaging, cleaning, completing actions outlined on paperwork and in our systems.
The Cook is a vital link with our customers, and therefore, your role as a Cook is important to the successful running of our Centre. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engaging, reliable, passionate, and hardworking Cook to work within our kitchen.
For more information, please contact Debbie Cannon at Debbie.Cannon@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
- Comply with set policies and procedures and all statutory Health and Safety requirements.
- Ensure the food safety of customers with special dietary needs by following the correct allergy procedures.
- Ensure correct use of facilities and equipment and report immediately any faults to the Hospitality Supervisor.
- Complete all paperwork accurately and in a timely manner.
- Plan, prepare, cook and serve dishes in line with recipes, menus, timescales and standards set.
- Produce meals within agreed budgets and ensure correct stock and portion control.
- Check sign for and unload deliveries.
- Maintain correct food storage and stock rotation at all times.
- Supervise correct use of kitchen equipment.
- Plan, organise and supervise day-to-day catering operations.
- Assist in the ordering of food and catering consumables.
- Preparation of dining areas, including the erection and dismantling of dining furniture and serving equipment.
- Complete a detailed handover on the changing of shifts.
- Contribute to recipe and menu ideas.
- Work closely with the Hospitality Supervisor to ensure correct stock levels are kept, and excellent catering service is delivered
- To provide attentive service to all visitors
- To ensure that all service areas are set up to the required standard
- To provide catering services to include, breakfast, lunch, dinner and events
- To ensure that all meeting rooms are fit for purpose in accordance with our meeting room standards
- To initiate good customer service and ensure premium service is upheld
- To co-operate with all catering staff and undertake such duties to ensure an efficient and effective service is always delivered
- To project a willing and helpful attitude to employees and visitors
- Assist with ensuring all areas are maintained in a clean & tidy condition, in accordance with the company’s Hygiene, Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- To maintain the required standards of personal hygiene and food handling practices, in accordance with the Food and Hygiene policy and current legislation.
- To report any faults as swiftly as possible to the designated person/s.
- Provide excellent customer service to all users of the catering provision.
- Provide hospitality services to conference and special interest groups.
- Liaise with group leaders and the Hospitality Supervisor regarding timings, dietary needs, dining room procedures and any other requirements requested by the customer.
- Maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene of all catering facilities and equipment.
- Ensured deep cleans are carried out as directed by the Hospitality Supervisor.
- Maintain a high standard of personal cleanliness and hygiene.
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential:
- Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate (training can be given).
- Level 1 Cooking/Catering qualification e.g., NVQ 1 or City and Guilds 706/1
Desirable:
- Level 2 Cooking/Catering qualification e.g., NVQ 2 or City and Guilds 706/2
- Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate.
- First Aid Certificate
Experience
Essential:
- Experience in the Catering/Hospitality industry.
Desirable:
- Experience in a role dealing with customers, ideally both adults and children.
- Experience in supervising and directing the work of others.
Knowledge
Essential:
- Food hygiene and Health and Safety: A sound understanding of current food hygiene practices and legislation.
- Knowledge in the preparation and cooking of healthy, high quality meals for a range of customer needs.
- An understanding of the importance of good customer service.
Skills & Attributes
Essential:
- Ability to produce high quality meals within specified standards.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Ability to plan and organise work, and to delegate tasks.
- Excellent team worker with good interpersonal skills.
- Friendly, approachable and helpful.
- Good communicator with adults and children.
- Good personal hygiene and well presented.
- Awareness of individual and group needs.
- Willingness to learn new skills.
Safeguarding
Essential:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the safe working practices that apply to this role.
- Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and well-being of children and young people/vulnerable adults.
Special Requirements
Essential:
- Flexible to work when required via a rota system, including some early evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
- Appropriate level of fitness to carry out necessary duties.
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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