As a volunteer Cooking Project Leader you’ll induct volunteers into the kitchen, facilitate the team, create recipe ideas, and lead on the preparation and cooking of the meal.
Tuesdays 4pm-8pm The cooking team is in charge of turning the surplus goods into amazing dishes. Everything from choosing, chopping, cooking (& sampling) are the main roles of the team, along with ensuring that we wash-up as we go.
Key information
- Duration: Ongoing
- Start Date: 18th October 2024
- Volunteer: Weekly
- Availability: Tuesday PM, Tuesday Evening
- Tasks: • Running cooking sessions, leading a team of volunteers to create a three-course meal in a limited timeframe.
• Ensuring the team are following the food safety procedures set out in our kitchen handbook.
• Inducting new volunteers into the kitchen.
• Encouraging the whole team to have input into planning a tasty, healthy, and nutritionally balanced menu.
• Communicating with other Cooking Project Leaders and your Project’s Surplus Food Coordinator(s) to ensure the store of dry/tinned goods is kept tidy and well stocked.
• Completing the weekly checklist in the kitchen handbook, and the weekly session report via the Project Leader portal.
• Reporting any accidents and incidents.
• Together with the Hosting Leader, recognising, responding to, and reporting any safeguarding issues or concerns. Note: you must not be barred from working with children and adults who may be vulnerable and at risk of abuse or neglect. - Training: Level 2 Food Safety, Food Allergens, and safeguarding training.
- Skill And Qualifications Required: You don’t need to have any previous cooking experience – you just need to love food and motivating people!
- Interests: Community, Health and wellbeing, Homeless, Hunger, Older people
- Suitability: Employee Volunteers, Long term commitment, Older people, People seeking work, With friends, 18 and over
- Activities: Catering, Management
- Skills: Catering, Creativity, Leadership, Organising, Talking to others
- Home Based: No
- DBS Check: Yes
- Accessibility: Clearly marked accessible parking spaces, Step free access clearly signposted into the building, Automatic opening doors, Lift to other floors / step free access throughout the building, Accessible toilets
• Ensuring the team are following the food safety procedures set out in our kitchen handbook.
• Inducting new volunteers into the kitchen.
• Encouraging the whole team to have input into planning a tasty, healthy, and nutritionally balanced menu.
• Communicating with other Cooking Project Leaders and your Project’s Surplus Food Coordinator(s) to ensure the store of dry/tinned goods is kept tidy and well stocked.
• Completing the weekly checklist in the kitchen handbook, and the weekly session report via the Project Leader portal.
• Reporting any accidents and incidents.
• Together with the Hosting Leader, recognising, responding to, and reporting any safeguarding issues or concerns. Note: you must not be barred from working with children and adults who may be vulnerable and at risk of abuse or neglect.