Nursery Cook / Chef
Remarkable Future starts here
Nursery: Children 1st Toton Nursery School by Storal
Address - 5 Banks Road, Toton NG9 6HE
Hours: 30 hours per week Monday-Friday, 8am till 2pm all year round
Salary: Starting from £13.25ph dependent on qualifications and experience
Hi We’re Katie and Laura, Nursery Managers at Toton.
With over 30 years of combined experience in early years, we are proud to lead a team that’s as passionate as we are about creating a warm, welcoming environment where every child can thrive.
What truly makes our nursery special is our dedicated and long-standing team—many of whom have built lasting, meaningful relationships with our children and families over the years.
Our friendly and thoughtfully designed spaces are filled with engaging resources that inspire learning, play, and curiosity. Our children feel safe, happy, and valued as they explore and grow in our cosy, home-from-home environment.
We’re proud of our strong community links, working closely with local services, schools, and the area SENCO to ensure every child receives the best possible support and a smooth transition to the next stage in their journey.
A special touch unique to Toton is our outdoor sleeping approach for babies—nestled in prams, they benefit from peaceful rest and fresh air, helping to promote healthy, natural sleep patterns.
Toton's Purpose
To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.
How you’ll spend your time here
As a Nursery Chef/Cook, you’ll prepare nutritious, freshly made meals whilst 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.
Catering for children with specific dietary needs
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
Ensuring that all children have rich stimulating eating experiences
Maintaining stock levels and ensuring stock rotation
Following COSHH and other relevant guidelines
We’d love to talk to you if you have the following
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 for You
· For you - We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain
· Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave
· Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets
· Development - Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund
· Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards
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Click apply today, don’t worry if your CV isn’t perfect just send us what you have and we’ll work out the rest later.
Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that 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.
- Department
- Nursery Support
- Role
- Nursery Cook
- Locations
- Children 1st @ Toton
- Hourly salary
- £13.25