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Cook

FarmED
Shipton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire

Posted: 13 Sep 2023

Deadline: 27 Oct 2023

Compensation: Between £24,000 and £27,000 depending on experience

Paid Full-time Permanent

Job description

A great opportunity to be integral within a small team producing a farm to table menu largely for a lunch crowd with occasional weekend and evening events

This Role

As a FarmED Cook & Baker, you will be working as part of a small team to feed our cafe visitors as well as the range of guests and visitors attending courses and events. This may be a light lunch for 10 farmers one day, a seasonal feast for 100 conference guests the next, and you will also gather and feed our team too!

You will support FarmED in it’s self-sustaining as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, this may include supporting the development of a local food hub or cooperative, or a range of FarmED food products - we are open to ideas!

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have some commercial cooking experience, ideally a minimum of 2 years
• Have relevant food safety, hygiene & allergen awareness certificates
• Have an interest in bread, pastries, dough & pizza making
• Be a great cake maker
• Be a passionate cook with a sound knowledge of vegetarian and vegan food
• Be fluent in English
• Have bags of enthusiasm
• Enjoy being a flexible team player with a can do attitude & good communication skills
• Share the FarmED vision and core values; be environmentally conscious & have an interest in regenerative farming & food production.

Application information

Please send your CV and covering letter to sally@farm-ed.co.uk

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