Community Chef Educator

Ref: 699 Role: Community Chef Educator Salary: £26,063 per annum Located: Barnsley Hours:- 07:30 – 16:00 Monday to Friday Our client is seeking a dedicated Chef Educator to lead their culinary initiatives and drive positive change in our community.
You will need to have the potential to solve community-based problems, be ready and willing to create positive changes in our community and to question and rethink concepts, assumptions and practises.
You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders demonstrating your leadership, initiative, ability to problem solve and capacity to respond flexibly to unexpected demand.
Benefits: * Contributory pension scheme.
* Annual Flu Injections, High Street and Leisure discounts and on-site Parking.
* Subsidised staff Canteen, Free Tea & Coffee, and Free Fruit Friday, Employee Assistance Programme – Grocery Aid.
* Eligible for Costco membership, Cycle 2 Work, and UK Fuel card discounts, Life assurance benefit Accountabilities and Responsibilities Operational * Ensure that all Health, Safety & Environmental policies and practises are upheld * Locally lead and deliver Social Impact and Development services including the promotion and support of communities through development and engagement initiatives * Ability to deliver membership drives to broaden Social Impact, The delivery of in-house training and development programmes * Delivery of effective social programmes with housing providers and more widely across the not-for-profit, social enterprise, public and private sectors – with the aim of taking forward new social impact opportunities that maximise the synergistic and financial benefits of joint working * Deliver and develop effective Membership practises to ensure access and promotion for service users to the client Colleagues * Engage your team both within your department and within other departments to support cross functional and positive working relationships * Employ a supportive and high performing culture with consistent delivery, through excellent leadership and motivation, that fully utilises and develops your teams' skills and capabilities * Keep up to date with information relevant to your department and cascade this accordingly to your team KPIs * Consistent and effective membership drive to maximise utilisation of services * Effective delivery of kitchen & café services, Effective delivery of cookery development courses, Good standard effective communication with team regarding implementation of social programmes * Electronic and paper filing systems are well organised and maintained, All sensitive / confidential information managed with integrity and maturity Requirements Skills: * Lead by example and uphold the clients values at all times, To be flexible and adaptable to support the needs of the business * Solution focused mind-set; bringing solutions and opportunities * A desire to continually focus on your own continued professional development * Sound understanding of and experience in social change objectives and strategies * Ability to deliver effective cookery and development programmes * Demonstrated capacity to work at a community level, working with multi-faceted, integrated team operational environment * Highly developed communications skills, strong interpersonal skills * Commitment to achieving high quality, innovative results * Ability to work collaboratively, flexibly and with initiative to fulfil both individual and team performance targets * Confident presenter and trainer, Well-developed organisational and time management skills * High level attention to detail.
* Ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple tasks and meet deadlines * Excellent interpersonal skills Experience: * Experience delivering effective cooking training programmes, Experience working with venerable individuals * Experience gained within a Community based setting required Glu Recruit LTD are an equal opportunities employer and are acting as a recruitment agent in the hiring of this role.
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