Nursery Chef
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 0AH |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Nuffield Health |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JR0093058_1764245525 |
Summary
Nursery Chef
St Albans | Catering | Permanent | Part Time
Salary - Pro rata, depending on experience
8 hours per week, 9am-5pm 1 day a week (Fridays)
Our Nuffy Bear Day Nursery is seeking Nursery Cook/Chef to be based at (insert site) in our Nuffield Health gym.
If you are looking to be part of a team and are passionate about food and children, look no further and be a part our Nuffy Bear at the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. We're Ofsted registered, and we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage, where we offer a unique range of wellbeing care for children helping them to achieve the best possible start in life.
You will need to have good verbal and written English, as well as Food Allergen Awareness training, which we can provide. You're strong on organisation and confident about encouraging children to develop their love of food. And of course, you'll require an enhanced DBS as part of your application.
As a Nursery Cook, you will:
- Be responsible for the organisation and operation for our nursery kitchen
- Work with seasonal menus and use fresh ingredients to produce healthy and nutritional food
- Order from our nominated suppliers to ensure adequate stock levels
- Work within a set budget alongside your manager
- Minimise food waste
- Support laundry and ensure the cleanliness of your kitchen
- Deal with third parties/suppliers
- Work to EHO (environmental health) standards
Helping you feel good.
We promise that we will support you with training opportunities, career development options and our unique health & wellbeing focused benefits package.
This includes:
- Free Gym membership across all our Fitness & Wellbeing clubs,
- Discount off Nuffy Bear Day Nurseries.
- Company Pension Scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
We will also offer a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits. We want to help you live well and get the balance right in life, so we will give you 25 days holiday, and this will increase as you build your career with us, plus much more.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.
It starts with you.