# Supermarket Assistant Branch Cook

**Company**: Waitrose & Partners
**Location**: Dorchester, Dorset
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £14.31 Hourly
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Supermarket Assistant Branch Cook, you'll work in the back-of-house of one of our shops in the Partner Dining Room, providing hot and cold food for Partners to enjoy during their break times.

When not working in the kitchen, you'll support the wider shop floor team as a Supermarket Assistant, providing great service to our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

- Smooth running of the overall kitchen with support and direction from the management team

- Maintaining a clean, tidy, and safe kitchen environment

- Ensuring portion control, preparation, storage methods, and due diligence to avoid food wastage

- Adhering to high food hygiene standards

- Supporting shop floor tasks including stock replenishment, fulfilling online customer orders, and reducing wastage

Essential skills/experience:

- Experience of working as a cook in a catering or hospitality environment

- Passionate about food and serving a varied and nutritious menu

- Customer-focused with the ability to engage partners with the food on offer

- Demonstrate commercial awareness, driving sales within the partner dining room, whilst also controlling costs and wastage

- Flexible and adaptable to work between kitchen and shop floor as required

Desirable skills/experience:

- City & Guilds 706 1 and 2 or NVQ equivalent

- Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2

## Skills

### Required
- cooking
- food safety
- customer service
- commercial awareness
- flexibility

### Nice to have
- City & Guilds 706 1 and 2
- NVQ equivalent
- Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2

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