We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as a Cook in the Commercial Catering Section of School Traded Services.
We are looking to appoint a Cook for Willowbees Café based within Newton le Willows Health and Leisure Centre.
The role would require you to work as a team of two cooks to oversee the delivery of a Catering service to the centre, based primarily within the soft play area but also providing a food and drinks service to members and visitors to the centre, and also catering provision for children's parties.
Within this role you would be expected to lead on the preparation, cooking and delivery of the food and drink provision, leading and training a small team of employees when on shift. You would be responsible for the day-to-day management of the service ensuring all Health and Safety policies are adhered to and ensuring a safe delivery of service following all HACCP management systems.
This role will also have responsibility of the management of the tills and financial element of the service including the day-to-day procurement of supplies.
The Café operates 7 days a week and a rota-based system will be in place for which you will manage certain elements.
The hours are 25 per week, to be worked 4 days Monday to Friday and 1 day on a Saturday or Sunday on a rota basis.
As a minimum you would require a Food Hygiene certificate and would be expected to carry out an Intermediate Hygiene qualification and would be required to hold an NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in food cookery.
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS clearance.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by contacting the School Traded Services Office on 01744 671749.
Thank you for your interest in working for us. If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality.
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
