Chef (Part Time or Full Time)
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- £26,926 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Prepare and cook a variety of meals for hostel residents and guests.
- Managing the relationship between catering staff and Residents, ensuring any incidents or complaints are referred to the Catering Manager
- Maintain cleanliness and organisation of the kitchen area.
- Ensure food safety and hygiene practices are followed.
- Ensuring food is prepared, produced, presented and served at correct service times, within YMCA’s standards and to agreed specification.
- Monitor and manage food inventory, ordering supplies as needed.
- Work efficiently in a team, collaborating with other staff members.
- 706/1 or 706/2 or NVQ equivalent
- Level 2 Certificate in Food Safety & Health & Safety or willingness to undertake the training.
- Knowledge of the EU regulation 1169/2011 and 14 ‘Annex ll’ allergens for all food
The role operates between 11:00am and 7:00pm, Monday to Sunday, with really flexible scheduling. We welcome applications for both full-time and part-time positions and are happy to explore working patterns that suit your availability while meeting the needs of the service.If you're passionate about cooking and want to make a difference in a community environment, we'd love to have you on board!At One YMCA we are an inclusive organisation and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We do not discriminate on the basis of Age, Disability, Gender Reassignment, Marriage/Civil Partnership, Pregnancy/Maternity, Race, Religion/Belief, Sex and/or Sexual Orientation. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities, and industries, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, and abilities.This is a Part Time role.
Hours per week: 28
Working Pattern: 11am to 7pm Monday to Sunday. We are flexible with full time or part time available.One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade, via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive, three-day Kickstarter Event.By the end of these three days, there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas, which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do “more and better, together” so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.These include:
- Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
- Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
- Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
- Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
- Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
- Family support through a network of children’s and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
- Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
- Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire
- Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
- Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
- A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity, and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.