Cook
Aspris
Date: 1 week ago
City: Southport, Queensland
Contract type: Full time
There is no better time to start a career within our catering team than now!
Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?
If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment, then look no further and apply today!
Arden College are recruiting for a cook to join their catering team!
This is a very exciting opportunity for the right candidate to work with our fantastic students and staff at our Derby Rd campus. Reporting to the Catering Manager, the successful candidate will oversee the planning, preparation, cooking and presentation of the food for our students and staff, as well as administrative tasks to ensure that costs are monitored, stock is ordered with minimal wastage, and that all health and safety legislation is adhered to.
Arden College is an independent specialist college, which is part of Aspris Children’s Services. The college site currently serves lunch to Young People with autism and complex learning needs (ages 16 to 25) and their staff team. The staff and student team comprises approximately 40-50 people per day.
Currently all staff and students are offered a dish of the day alongside sandwiches, toasties, jacket potatoes and salad. There are a range of dietary requirements for individual young people including allergies. The successful candidate will have experience of catering for gluten free, dairy free, nut free, vegetarian, vegan and Halal diets.
The successful candidate will have a flexible attitude to the role with a focus on the young people’s needs. We teach catering and hospitality as part of our college offer and it is essential that the successful candidate is happy to work with students in the kitchen (with support staff), teaching them catering skills in a real commercial kitchen.
The Ideal Candidate Must Have
Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!
As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.
A Level 3 Qualification Or Equivalent Is An Essential Requirement, As Well As Previous Experience Preparing And Cooking Meals Gained Within a Professional Kitchen Environment Along With The Following Characteristics
Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
Organisation You will need to be confident and organised in updating menus, dietary requirements and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
Attentive No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.
Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.
If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools
Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?
If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment, then look no further and apply today!
Arden College are recruiting for a cook to join their catering team!
This is a very exciting opportunity for the right candidate to work with our fantastic students and staff at our Derby Rd campus. Reporting to the Catering Manager, the successful candidate will oversee the planning, preparation, cooking and presentation of the food for our students and staff, as well as administrative tasks to ensure that costs are monitored, stock is ordered with minimal wastage, and that all health and safety legislation is adhered to.
Arden College is an independent specialist college, which is part of Aspris Children’s Services. The college site currently serves lunch to Young People with autism and complex learning needs (ages 16 to 25) and their staff team. The staff and student team comprises approximately 40-50 people per day.
Currently all staff and students are offered a dish of the day alongside sandwiches, toasties, jacket potatoes and salad. There are a range of dietary requirements for individual young people including allergies. The successful candidate will have experience of catering for gluten free, dairy free, nut free, vegetarian, vegan and Halal diets.
The successful candidate will have a flexible attitude to the role with a focus on the young people’s needs. We teach catering and hospitality as part of our college offer and it is essential that the successful candidate is happy to work with students in the kitchen (with support staff), teaching them catering skills in a real commercial kitchen.
The Ideal Candidate Must Have
- Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of food hygiene requirements
- Knowledge of food allergies and special dietary requirements
- An enthusiasm to work alongside our students (training and support will be offered to the right candidate)
- A genuine desire to work alongside a committed staff team to improve the health outcomes for our students.
- Appropriate qualifications for the role.
- An understanding of health and safety at work, particularly with regard to catering
- Experience producing meals for large groups on time and to budget
- Ability to monitor costs and liaise with suppliers.
- An enhanced DBS check (adult and child) will be required for the successful candidate.
Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!
As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.
A Level 3 Qualification Or Equivalent Is An Essential Requirement, As Well As Previous Experience Preparing And Cooking Meals Gained Within a Professional Kitchen Environment Along With The Following Characteristics
Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
Organisation You will need to be confident and organised in updating menus, dietary requirements and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
Attentive No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.
Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.
If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools
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