Cook l C&K Arlington Drive

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Detail information about job Cook l C&K Arlington Drive. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Permanent part time position commencing July
• Located in Arana Hills on the north side of Brisbane
• Join one of Brisbane's leading early education providers

At C&K Arlington Drive Childcare Centre, a position has become available for an experienced and qualified cook to join their team part time. As the Cook, you will be responsible in ensuring a nutritionally balanced and diverse diet is offered to all children attending the Centre.  This position is permanent part time working 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday.  What will C&K require from you as a Cook?

• Plan a quarterly menu within budgetary guidelines that covers the five food groups and caters for children with allergies or special diet requirements. Fresh food is the preferred choice for all meals.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the menu and coordinate any adjustments in consultation with the Director, employees, parents and advisory food authorities.
• Ensure meals and snacks are prepared and served on time according to the needs of individual children and the program, with minimal waste.
• Purchase all kitchen supplies within budgetary guidelines and ensure food storage is in accordance with food storage regulations.
• Monitor local and state government policies to ensure up-to-date food preparation policies/practices are implemented.
• Maintain all kitchen records in accordance with food safety standards and comply with infection control guidelines.
• Ensure the safety and hygiene of kitchen and kitchen equipment is maintained and adhered to within legislative and Workplace Health & Safety requirements.

Ideal applicants will have:

• Cert IV in Commercial Cookery - Desirable
• Quality Food Supervisor Certificate - Desirable
• Previous experience in cooking for young children within a large commercial kitchen - Desirable
• Demonstrated ability to maintain a high standard in preparation, ordering, storage and food handling
• Knowledge and experience in menu planning for dietary and nutritional requirements
• Demonstrated ability to plan and manage a food service budget
• Working knowledge of legislative requirements including Workplace Health & Safety and Food Safety Standards
• Demonstrated ability to organise a kitchen team within a busy environment

About C&K:C&K Arlington Drive Childcare Centre are an all-inclusive service which includes nutritious meals prepared fresh daily, quality nappies, T-shirts, hats and visiting entertainment. They are a 10-room service offering Early Childhood education from 6 weeks through to 5 years and operate 52 weeks per year only closing on public holidays. C&K Arlington Drive Childcare embraces the C&K's Building waterfalls curriculum which is a play based, emergent and co-constructed curriculum giving emphasis to encouraging children to express and transform their ideas and understandings in play and the many languages of children. Children are encouraged to represent their own world in order to learn about and understand their world. In the process of representation, as they actively play and interact with others, engage with a rich variety of materials and ideas, children's language and social abilities are fostered. They are encouraged to think flexibly and creatively as they seek solutions to conflicts and problems. Children are empowered to make their own decisions and choices. They have many opportunities to respond to the beauty and order of the natural world. Most significantly, children learn best when they have available to them a knowledgeable and informed adult, capable of engaging them intellectually as well as emotionally, and who is in turn capable of being engaged intellectually and emotionally by them.
C&K is proud to be the largest and longest established provider of community-based early childhood education and care services in Queensland.  Working at C&K you will have access to many benefits including, but not limited to, above-award wages, salary packaging options, priority access to C&K childcare and kindergarten centres and access to study through our C&K College.  C&K is committed to an inclusive workforce and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people from culturally-diverse backgrounds.  All C&K employees are required to undergo background checks which includes police checks. Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only. C&K reserve the right to close the advertisement before this date is reached. Therefore, it is encouraged that you submit your application as soon as possible.