Community Chef Educator

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Role: Community Chef Educator

Salary: £26,063 per annum

Location: Swarcliffe, Leeds

Hours: 08:00-4:30pm Monday-Friday (Although flexibility is required, as the store is open 08:30-5:00pm Mon-Fri and Saturdays 9:00am-3:00pm)

What you’ll get:

• Contributory pension scheme.
• Annual Flu Injections, High Street and Leisure discounts and on-site Parking.
• Subsidised staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday
• Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid.
• Eligible for Costco membership, Cycle 2 Work, and UK Fuel card discounts.
• Life assurance benefit

The role:

Our client is seeking a dedicated Chef Educator to lead their culinary initiatives and drive positive change within a new store, soon to open in Swarcliffe, Leeds.

You will need to be able to think on your feet and use your culinary expertise to produce freshly cooked, nutritious meals. But also, it is essential that you will be confident and supportive in the delivery of the Community Kitchen programmes and community-based initiatives that align in response to your community’s needs. You will need to be ready and willing to create positive changes in our members and to question and rethink concepts, assumptions and practises.

Working closely with internal and external stakeholders you will be able to demonstrate your leadership, initiative and ability to work effectively in a capacity that reflects the businesses values.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Ability to work with the various challenges of daily changing, surplus food stocks and be able to create nutritious meals.
• Lead and deliver Social Impact and culinary development programmes including the promotion and support of local communities through engaging activities.
• Assist retail and hub in driving membership to broaden Social Impact.
• The delivery of in-house training and development programmes
• Work closely with other organisations in the wider not-for-profit, social enterprise, public and private sectors – with the aim of taking forward new social impact opportunities that maximise the synergistic and financial benefits of joint working to benefit local people and members.
• Build understanding within the social sector and beyond the business to help in the development of our social impact, business offer.
• Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practises are upheld
• Engage your team both within your department and within other departments to support cross functional and positive working relationships
• Employ a supportive and high performing culture with consistent delivery, through excellent leadership and motivation, that fully utilises and develops your teams’ skills and capabilities
• Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your wider department teams.

The successful candidate:

Essential:

• A strong culinary background
• NVQ level 2 in Catering (or similar qualifications )
• Food hygiene level 2 or above.
• Knowledge of HACCP

Desired and advantageous:

• Experience delivering effective cooking / training programmes
• Experience working with vulnerable individuals
• Experience gained within a community-based setting

Glu Recruit LTD are an equal opportunities employer and are acting as a recruitment agent in the hiring of this role. 

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