Prep Chef

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✨Job Title: Prep Chef 📍Location: Oxygen House, Exeter, and the Five Bells (one Sunday per month) ✨Contract: Fixed-Term (6 Months),

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What We Offer

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Oxygen House Kitchen is an organic, vegetable-led kitchen serving the Oxygen House community. We create fresh, seasonal food with a focus on quality, sustainability and thoughtful cooking.

We're looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Prep Cook to join us on an interim six-month contract. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid kitchen experience, strong knife skills and a genuine interest in cooking with vegetables. You'll play a key role in preparing ingredients, supporting food production and helping us deliver consistently excellent food every day.

Once a month, you'll also support Sunday service at the Five Bells, our community pub, helping to deliver a welcoming and memorable dining experience.

Responsibilities

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Preparing vegetables, grains, pulses, sauces, dressings and other ingredients to the standards and quantities set by the Senior Kitchen Team.
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Supporting the preparation and cooking of dishes for breakfast, lunch and other services, following recipes and specifications
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Assisting with Sunday lunch service at the Five Bells once per month
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Working from daily prep lists and production plans, highlighting shortages or issues proactively
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Following food safety procedures, including allergen management, labelling, date rotation and temperature monitoring
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Maintaining a clean, organised and efficient section throughout your shift
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Receiving, checking and storing deliveries correctly
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Minimising food waste through careful preparation, good stock rotation and thoughtful use of ingredients
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Working collaboratively with the wider kitchen and front-of-house teams
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Supporting the senior kitchen team with other reasonable duties as required

We're looking for someone who:

Has previous experience working in a professional kitchen
Demonstrates confident, safe and efficient knife skills
Has a good understanding of kitchen hygiene, food safety and allergen management
Is reliable, organised and able to remain calm under pressure
Communicates well and enjoys working as part of a team
Takes pride in producing consistent, high-quality work
Is enthusiastic about vegetable-led cooking and sustainable food practices
Is available to work the required shift pattern, including one Sunday per month

Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate (training can be provided for the right candidate)
Experience in a vegetable-led, plant-based or seasonal kitchen
Experience with batch cooking.
An interest in seasonality, reducing food waste and responsible sourcing

If you're passionate about cooking, enjoy working with seasonal produce and want to be part of a purpose-driven food community, we'd love to hear from you.