Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Job title:
Chef WCC619579
Company
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Job description
Job Details:Salary range: £25,584 – £32,654 per annum
Work location: Sayers Croft Field Centre, Cranleigh Road, Surrey GU6 7SS
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 9 February 2025About Us:THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE’S PASSION AND DEDICATIONThe Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco-friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer, Climate Emergency, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss.Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens’ Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we’re holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision-making.To see the work of the Westminster Citizens’ Climate Assembly, clickThe Role:As a Chef you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success when you join the team at Sayers Croft Outdoor Learning Centre. The Centre is a residential site at the foot of the Surrey Hills, and offers groups of children and young people the chance to enjoy the beauty of the natural world. The team provides a caring environment where our visitors are supported in making independent food choices, and helps to build a foundation of trust which enables them to be brave in the outdoors.You’ll be responsible for supervising six other members of the staff during each meal service, help to ensure good time-keeping, request agency cover for any staff illness and prioritise tasks in the event of absences.Preparing and cooking a large number of meals from fresh and raw ingredients without supervision, you’ll ensure that religious, moral and medical diets are correctly catered for, and supervise portion control so that our visitors have sufficient food to eat with the minimum of waste.Committed to ensuring we retain the Centre’s 5 star Food Hygiene rating and keep up-to-speed with relevant legislation, you’ll undertake risk assessments and ensure the kitchen is a clean working environment at all times. You’ll have a wide range of additional tasks, including maintaining records of the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers, completing a daily kitchen logbook, ensuring equipment is properly maintained, and liaising with domestic, maintenance, education staff and visiting group leaders.Please refer to the for more information.About You:With a flexible approach to your work, and always ready to roll your sleeves up and undertake any catering task when things get busy, you’ll have well developed experience of working in an establishment that serves large numbers of people. This could mean that you’re cooking and serving up to 220 covers at a time.It’s important that you have knowledge and experience of providing meals for special diets and allergies, and are able to contribute creative and wholesome ideas and recipes for meals. When it comes to qualifications, should have an NVQ Level 2 or its equivalent, and intermediate food handling and hygiene certification, while your friendly and approachable attitude will make you a supportive and encouraging member of the team.What We Offer:Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visitAs a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
Expected salary
£25584 – 32654 per year
Location
Surrey
Job date
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:30:51 GMT
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