About The Role
Job Title: Cook for ASLAN
Contract: Temporary contract
Salary: £15.88 per hour (plus pension and National Insurance)
Department: All Souls Serve the City
We are seeking a cook to ensure we are able to extend generous hospitality to our guests each night in the form of healthy and varied hot meals. You would involve developing a menu, managing the supply and delivery of ingredients, and preparing meals for the week ahead that can be frozen ahead of distribution by our volunteer teams each evening.
Safeguarding: conditional offers will be made pending the successful completion of a basic DBS check.
– Plan and design a dinner menu, in consultation with the shelter manager, for 25 guests each night
– Order, organise and receive delivery of food
– Responsible for prepping the food and preparing meals that can be frozen to be served each evening
– Able to adapt menus to suit individual allergies and dietary requirements
– Able to cook a range of dishes from scratch, including mains, soups and puddings/cakes
– Able to assess the volume of food needed and prepare meals accordingly
– Having a servant heart
– Able to work independently
– Self confident, self motivated, and resourceful
– Personable, able to engage well with people
– Able to problem solve and think on one’s feet
– Be trained and certified in the relevant hygiene training (or willing to do so)
– Have demonstrated experience cooking in an industrial kitchen
– A flexible team player, eager to grow, learn, and improve one’s skills
Equal Opportunities
The Diocese of London is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community. We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME) and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation.