Salary: £27,135.22 per annum (pro rata)
Contract/Hours: Part Time – This is a job share role working 19.5 hours per week between 8.30am-3.30pm.
24/7 Confidential Helpline - speak to trained counsellors any time, 365 days a year, for emotional, wellbeing or mental health support.
Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure. That's Spring Nursery! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive. As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all.
At Spring, we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert, which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role.
We're looking for Nursery Cook to join the team at Spring Northumberland Heath. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience in a larger or commercial kitchen who's ready to take on a rewarding role preparing nutritious, tasty meals for young children every day.
As our cook, you'll take full ownership of the kitchen working from our set menus to plan, prepare and serve balanced child friendly meals. You'll manage stock levels, place food orders, and always maintain excellent hygiene and safety standards. You'll take pride in keeping the kitchen spotless, well organised, and running smoothly.
Northumberland Heath is a family focused nursery, a full day care setting for children aged 6 weeks to five years. Our passionate practitioners put children's learning and development at the heart of everything they do. Children are encouraged to explore, create, and lead their own play using natural resources, with access to free flow play throughout the day.
What you’ll be doing
In the role of Nursery Cook, you'll be:
Planning healthy meals, with staff that are nutritious, varied and tasty, considering the children's dietary and cultural requirements.
In the role of Nursery Cook, we're ideally looking for someone who has:
Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] quoting reference 13176
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.
Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather, we didn't do that.
If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Partner
We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
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