Job Purpose
To ensure the success of day-to-day kitchen and events catering operations by preparing food to a consistently high standard while maintaining health and safety standards in the kitchen environment.

Accountabilities:

The key accountabilities of the post holder will be to:

• Uphold food hygiene standards within the kitchen environment

• Prepare and cook food to specification, ensuring consistent high standards

Responsibilities:

Cooking

• To ensure all products are prepared to a high standard and to the specification provided in training, guidance, and customer preference

• To follow food safety and hygiene protocols, including handling food safely, maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen, and adhering to health and safety guidelines.

• To manage stock in line with stock rotation guidelines and management instruction advising management of any products running low

General 

• To observe and work within Health and Safety guidance as outlined in training 

• To be flexible in approach and attitude to work and willing to undertake other duties as required

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect a range of duties the post-holder will perform. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be changed in the light of experience and in consultation with the post-holder.

Please note all applicants must be 18 or over to comply with Reading Students’ Union’s licensing duties.

Person Specification: