Chef (Part Time)
This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
We are seeking a passionate and skilled Chef to join our team at the YMCA Hostel. The Chef will be responsible for preparing and cooking nutritious and tasty meals for our residents and guests, ensuring food safety and hygiene standards are maintained.
You will work closely with other kitchen staff to manage food inventory, plan menus, and provide an excellent dining experience. This role requires creativity, time management, and a commitment to delivering high-quality meals in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• 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.
Qualifications:
• 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
Working hours: This role is for 15 hours per week, with exact hours to be agreed. Shifts may include some evenings and weekends and are worked on a 7-day rota.
The service operates between 11:00am and 7:00pm, Monday to Sunday, and we offer a flexible approach to scheduling, taking into account both service needs and individual availability where possible
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: 15
Working Pattern: Hours to be agreed
About Us
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.
The Benefits
About Us
One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. 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.
Our dedicated Housing teams provide safe, affordable places to live that feel like home and focus on community spirit and togetherness. Our approach to support is based on strengths, and our residents are always at the core of their own support plans. The support they receive reflects their aspirations to access education, training, employment and volunteering, their future housing needs, and addresses any physical and mental wellbeing needs. Our aim is to empower residents to gain the tools and skills that enable stability, independent living, promising futures, and connection to their communities. Currently, we provide housing services and supported living across 12 different districts in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and we are actively recruiting new staff to help even more vulnerable people in the community, changing and saving their lives!
One YMCA are known for the delivery of the Dynamic pathway to independence. The dynamic pathway to independence is a seamless, continuous movement towards independence with each resident a journey which is planned out on a person centric basis towards full independence, which is split into 5 distinct phases.
We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.
We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.
These include:
-
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
Our Values
We champion RESPECT so everyone can belong
We show COMPASSION so everyone can contribute
We inspire GROWTH so everyone can thrive
Current Benefits
- Health Cash Plan
Covers healthcare expenses from optical and dental care to therapy treatments. Shared pot for children included.
- EAP & Doctorline
Confidential help and advice line (24 hours) on medical, legal, and domestic issues.
- Rewards & Discounts
Special offers from hundreds of leading online and high street retailers & Discounts on gym memberships.
- Birthday and Wellbeing day off
One day additional leave day for every year of service up to 5 days.
- Leave & Support
Support for your child, IVF treatment, and through challenging times.
- Career Pathway
Training & Development with a clear pathway for you to grow.
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