Cook


Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Cook to join our team. The successful candidate will have a love for food, a keen eye for detail and a passion for training and developing our participants. This is a fast-paced catering business with a real purpose. .

Responsibilities

  • Bring your love of food to our kitchen and not only use that passion to prepare and cook dishes that will sell in our cafes & corporate catering business, but also share that passion with our participants and help them to cook and love food too.
  • Using your knowledge of food safety and allergens, you will make sure that the site meets our high standards and that all paperwork is complete to ensure our customers, participants and team stay safe.
  • With your keen eye for detail, you will make sure that all food leaving the kitchen meets our brand and quality standards.
  • Because you understand business too, you will help us make this business profitable, you will support the management team in achieving our financial targets; sales, gross profit and control of labour.
  • Good cooks like quality ingredients, something we are keen to promote. You will support us in the procurement of good quality ingredients, whilst managing supplier relationships to ensure our passion for quality is guaranteed.
  • We want to be the best, and we want to have the best team. Your development is as important to us as it is you. We have some training that you will need to complete, but we are also keen to support in any other training that may support you.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

  • Ability to be flexible and adaptable and to work evenings, weekends and public holidays on a rota basis as required.
  • Ability to work on own initiative and without direction.
  • A can-do attitude and able to work in a team.
  • Hard working with a willingness to learn.
  • NVQ Level 2 Catering and Hospitality or equivalent eg City and Guilds.
  • Essential Food Hygiene Certificate.
  • At least 2 years paid experience working as a cook within a busy catering environment.
  • Sound knowledge of Health and safety Procedures including COSHH and HACCP.

Desirable Skills

  • Bakery or Patisserie qualification.
  • A1 / A2 Assessor Award or prepared to work towards same.
  • Intermediate food Hygiene Certificate or willing to work towards same.
  • Experience of working with adults with a learning disability.
  • Sound knowledge and experience of catering for customers with different dietary requirements.

Further Information

Work time: Varies depending on shifts. We are Loaf Catering, we are a social enterprise supporting people with learning difficulties and autism into jobs with a future. We deliver outside catering for events across Greater Belfast. Our flagship building Loaf Café on the Grosvenor Road is where the magic happens, here we have a food preparation and production unit for all outside catering and supplies to our other sites.

Vacancy ID
1587798
Job Sector
Hotel and Catering
Area
Belfast
Location
Loaf Cafe Bakery, 307-309 Grosvenor Road, Belfast
Salary
£11.00 per hour
No. vacancies
1
Contract Type
Permanent
Weekly hours
24
Published date
03/02/2023
Closing date
07/03/2023
Worktime
Varies depending on shifts

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