Casual Chef Malt Cross Hospitality

The historic Malt Cross is an iconic bar and kitchen in the heart of Nottingham City Centre. The venue has been welcoming and serving customers to its famous bar for almost 150 years.

As we approach the busy festive period, we are looking for a new Casual Chef to join our team.

We are passionate about high-quality food, made from locally sourced ingredients served in a welcoming, friendly, relaxed environment filled with great music and lively events.

What’s more, as an independent venue, Malt Cross’s activity directly supports YMCA community projects in the city and across Nottinghamshire.

We have a super team of hard-working, passionate staff who are exceptionally welcoming to new members to the team, extending a warm welcome to them in the spirit of the YMCA.

This is your chance to work for an organisation which makes a real different to the local community, starting with our own YMCA projects.

Job Title: Casual Chef

Location: Malt Cross, 16 St James’s Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FG

Salary:£13.50 per hour

Hours: Casual hours across the week, including weekends covering days and evenings

On a day-to-day basis, you can expect your role to include:

• Preparation of meals from our lunch and dinner menus, offering freshly prepared, delicious meals.
• Providing excellent buffet/banquet style food for bespoke events, such as Christmas events.
• Promoting a welcoming, inclusive and community-focused environment and working alongside the Malt Cross management team to deliver an exceptional customer experience, which includes delivery of staff training
• Responsibility for food safety, hygiene and compliance

We are looking for someone passionate about food and ingredients who has had experience as a Chef in a smaller kitchen environment.

With experience in either café style kitchen or larger restaurant kitchen, you will be comfortable working as part of a small team where team spirit is everything.

This is a busy and varied role and you must be able to flexible to meet the needs of the kitchen on any given day.

From your experience, you will have a strong awareness of current food industry product trendsas well as a good working knowledge of Health and Safety and Food and Drink preparation practices; being Advance Hygiene Qualified or CIEH Level 2 Food Hygiene Qualified and/or holding NVQ Level 2 Food Preparation or equivalent qualification is desirable.

As to be expected with a role of this nature, evenings and weekends shifts will form the majority of your shifts. We will share with you shift availability to be able to select whichever shifts fit with your availability.

Malt Cross, as part of the YMCA Robin Hood Group is committed to equal opportunities
, promoting diversity
, and creating an inclusive culture where all staff can thrive.

Should you require any adjustments to support your full participation in our recruitment process, we would encourage you to share your needs with us so we can support you with your requirements. Please contact our recruitment team in the first instance.

We follow rigorous safer recruitment processes to ensure the protection of children, young people, and adults  applicants will be subject to a relevant DBS checks, reference checks, and thorough vetting as part of our commitment to safeguarding.

£13.50 per hour

We offer the following benefits from the first day you work for us:

Monthly pay via our payroll

Regular ongoing training

Access to E-learning for 1000's of topics

Pastoral support

Uniform provided where appropriate

Excellent opportunities for development and progression in an exciting expanding organisation.

Access to our internal job vacancies