Assistant Chef
Do you have cooking experience and are looking for a fulfilling opportunity to work with adults with learning disabilities? We are looking for an experienced cook to join our team as an Assistant Chef. This is a job with sociable working hours where you will work with a friendly team and help our students learn valuable skills in the kitchen along with building confidence and employment skills. This role is a great development opportunity for an enthusiastic cook who is interested in supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism. The Assistant Chef will assist to prepare and cook meals alongside our students and Chef Trainer for around 40 people.
Share is a registered charity and a centre for training and wellbeing. We provide a range of programmes helping adults with learning disabilities, autism and other support needs become more happy, healthy, and independent. Our vision is a world where disabled people are fully included in society, living the life they choose, and we need talented people like you to help us make that happen.
Main responsibilities
- You’ll assist the Chef Trainer to teach commercial catering skills to adults who have a range of disabilities while providing lunch for students attending Share Clapham Junction
- You’ll assist with managing the lunch delivery alongside our Lunchtime Activities Leaders
You’ll ensure the catering project and canteen maintain excellent levels of cleanliness
- You’ll support students to achieve relevant qualifications and support students to build portfolios of experience and achievements
Who we’re looking for
- You are a dedicated Assistant Chef who loves food and is interested in developing their skills and is interested in working with adults with learning disabilities and autism
- You have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to relate positively and in a non-discriminatory way to disabled people from a range of backgrounds and communities
- Most importantly, you’re interested in helping disabled people enjoy more autonomy and you understand how to make this happen
Why work for us?
At Share, we’re passionate about supporting disabled people to set their own goals for learning and life and helping them to achieve their aspirations. Most of our students are people with learning disabilities and/or autism. We offer them training, employment, personal development, and leisure opportunities. We help disabled people to be more independent, have better health and wellbeing, move towards employment, and enjoy the same access to leisure opportunities as everyone else.
We are accredited by the National Autistic Society and hold Investors in People – Gold. We celebrate diversity and we value kindness and care for others alongside working to very high professional standards.
Full list of the benefits when working for Share.
How to apply
We actively encourage applications from people from minoritised ethnic communities and with lived experience of a learning disability and/or autism. This is because we believe our staff should reflect the diversity of our student body wherever possible to provide the best possible service.
Please send us your CV and a cover letter. In your letter, please tell us:
About your experience in catering, and how you feel this prepared you for the Assistant Chef role?
About your achievements - what are you most proud of in your career to date and why?
About anything else that is relevant to this role at Share.
Please send us your CV and cover letter to hradmin@sharecommunity.org.uk or use the application form below.
If you would like to have chat about the role or visit us prior to applying, please contact a member of the HR team at hradmin@sharecommunity.org.uk.
We focus on ability and believe people work best when they feel valued, safe and happy. We do all that we can to make sure that Share is friendly and welcoming to everyone. All CVs and applications are sanitised to ensure unbiased recruitment.
This job is subject to two satisfactory references, evidence of qualifications, an enhanced DBS check and providing evidence of the right to work in the UK. If you are disabled and would like to discuss other ways of submitting your application, please contact us on 020 7924 2949.
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We look forward to receiving your application.