Cook

We are seeking a Cook to join the team at Highbury New Park Day Centre on a permanent basis.

The main duties of the role are:

• To have responsibility in the absence of the cook for food preparation, ensuring the kitchen offers a healthy rang of meal choices for our service users. To work with service users who are physically disabled, visually impaired and hard of hearing or deaf and provide training in food hygiene and meal preparation in one to one group sessions. 
• To assist the cook in the day to day management, monitoring and performance of the kitchen. To have responsibility in the absence of the cook for the kitchen budget, ensuring the service provided represents good value and expenditure remains within the allocated budget.
• To have responsibility for preparing, cooking and serving meals for approximated 60 customers daily, including planning menus, taking into account special dietary and cultural needs, offering a choice of nutritional main meal and snack options and proving a buffet catering service as required.
• To have responsibility in absence of the cook for controlling food and equipment stocks including ordering, stock rotation, checking orders, invoices and delivery notes.
• To maintain a high standard of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, including the cleanliness and including washing up crockery and other cooking utensils and inspection of equipment and compliance with health and safety and food standards regulations. 
• We determined to make Islington fairer. To create a place where everyone, whatever their background ,has the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.
• We also have an ambitious goal - to be the best council in the country -with every employee clear about the part they play and inspired, focused and supported to give their very best.
• We want to build an organisation where employees feel valued, inspired and empowered to help us achieve our goals and provide the best services possible to our residents.
• To Have responsibility in the absence of the cook for food preparation, ensuring the kitchen offers a healthy rang of meal choices for our service users.
• To work with service users who are physically disabled, visually impaired and hard of hearing or deaf and provide training in food hygiene and meal preparation in one to one group sessions. 

Islington is a place rich with diversity and culture. As a council our sense of purpose couldn’t be clearer: we serve. It’s in the logo. We are committed to challenging inequality in the borough and as one of the largest employers we know that to look after the place and the planet, we have to look after our people. Together we can change the future.

We are determined to create a more equal Islington, where everyone who lives here has an equal chance to thrive. 

To do this, everyone who works at Islington Council lives by a set of values which guide us in everything that we do: collaborative, ambitious, resourceful, and empowering. They spell out ‘CARE’, which is what we think public service is all about. 

Watch our video to hear more about our mission and how you can help us achieve it from the Leader of the Council, Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz.