Assistant Nursery Cook / Chef

Nursery: Children 1st St Peter & St Pauls Nursery School by Storal

Address: Hady Hill, Chesterfield, S41 0EF
Hours: Part Time, 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £12.71 per hour dependent on qualifications and experience

HI, We’re Rachael and Lisa, Nursery Managers at St Peter and St Paul.

With over 40 years of combined experience in early years education, we both began our journeys as newly qualified practitioners straight out of college. Since then, we’ve grown into our leadership roles—Natalie proudly managing the Over 2’s for the past three years and Lisa leading the Under 2’s for five years.

Together, we feel incredibly privileged to support not only our children but also our dedicated team, helping everyone to grow and thrive each day.

Our nursery offers a rich blend of indoor and outdoor learning experiences. Children enjoy dedicated time in our woodland spaces, where they connect with nature through a variety of hands-on activities. Indoors, creativity and imagination are ignited in unique areas such as our ballpit ship, hot air balloon, and beach-themed zones—all designed to spark joy, exploration, and a lifelong love of learning.

Who & What is Storal?

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily apart of here at St Peter & St Paul. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community. 

  What you'll be doing
As a Nursery Kitchen Assistant you will be working closely with the Nursery Cook, you’ll assist in maintaining the highest standards of safety and hygiene in the nursery kitchen at all times. Your flexibility and reliability will ensure the smooth operation of the kitchen.

Day to day you will find yourself;

• Supporting the nursery chef in keeping a clean and clear kitchen

• Working to an extremely high level when it comes to the relevant Food and Hygiene, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health-Food Safety, Health and Safety and Ofsted guidelines and regulations

• Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation

• Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines

• Pot Washing from lunch and tea meals

What you'll need

• Level 2 Food and Hygiene

• Experience in a commercial kitchen as an assistant cook/chef or something very similar

• Knowledge of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community - Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

We care about our people.  

Curious to know more?

We’d love to tell you more about what makes St Peter & St Paul so special.

 
Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.   

CCH