Chef / Catering Assistant
Leeds, West Yorkshire

The Company

Perennial is a charity dedicated to helping people in horticulture. Together with our network of partners, we provide free support, information, advice, financial assistance and services for horticulturalists and their loved ones experiencing illness, disability, bereavement, family breakdown and financial difficulties.

We have a real focus on improving the health and well-being outcomes of people working in horticulture and have an ambitious preventative strategy to create better futures for people working in horticulture.

We are now looking for a Chef / Catering Assistant to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week, Wednesday to Sunday and on Bank Holidays.

The Benefits

- A salary up to £20,000 depending on experience
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension: matching contributions up to 7%
- Sick Pay
- Death in Service Benefit (3 x salary).
- Family-friendly policies, including ‘buying’ extra (unpaid) leave or time off for dependants

This is a fantastic opportunity for a catering professional with excellent food hygiene knowledge and skills to join our small, friendly café team.

By joining our friendly team, you will have the opportunity to showcase your culinary genius and creative flare, as you use the freshest ingredients from our kitchen garden in our seasonal menu. It doesn’t get more local than that!

So, if you can bring your passion for fresh, healthy food to our customers, then we can’t wait to hear from you!

The Role

As a Chef / Catering Assistant, you will assist the catering manager with the daily operation of our café, including preparing fresh food and maintaining excellent hygiene and cleanliness standards.

Specifically, you will help in the development and preparation of changing seasonal menus, using fresh produce from our kitchen garden. You will also prepare a daily array of sweet treats such as cakes, scones and tray bakes.

Ensuring that the kitchen remains a clean and hygienic environment, you will organise and rotate stocks and deliveries, whilst following health and safety and COSHH procedures during your work.

About You

To be considered as a Chef / Catering Assistant, you will need:

- Food preparation, cooking, and presentation skills - especially those relevant to a healthy café setting
- Good, up-to-date knowledge of food hygiene and allergens
- Familiarity with the Food Standards Agency’s ‘Safer Food Better Business for Caterers’ guidelines
- Knowledge of First Aid in the workplace
- To be customer focused, with excellent communication skills
- A Level 2 Food hygiene certificate and the willingness to complete further training

Experience within the food service industry including customer service, food preparation, ordering, budgeting and stock control would be highly beneficial.

Ideally, you will have a Level 3 food hygiene certificate and a qualification relevant to the role.

This role will require the ability to work seasonal and weekend hours.

The closing date for applications is 6th September 2022.

Please note interviews will be held on 22nd September 2022.

Other organisations might call this role Kitchen Assistant, Cook, Chef, Commis Chef, Chef de Partie, or Café Chef.

Webrecruit and Perennial are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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