Employee Records
Junior CDP
Dummer Down Farm Shop
Full Time
1 Year Experience
Coins Icon £15 / Hour
Junior CDP
Dummer Down Farm Shop

Full Time
1 Year Experience
Coins Icon £15 / Hour
Skills
Knife Skills
Kitchen Safety
Food Preparation
Food Safety
Culinary Degree/Training
Classical Cooking Techniques
Description

Honesty Group is an independent business operating pubs, restaurants, coffeeshops, and farm shops as well as serving our online and wholesale customers. Opened in 2014, Honesty Group now runs 14 sites across Berkshire and Hampshire, with our strong community-led values, and people-first approach separating us from our competitors. We are committed to holding ourselves to the highest standards with regards to the environment and sustainability, with all our food made by hand by our incredible team of chefs and bakers utilising fresh, seasonal, local ingredients (where possible) and served to our customers by dedicated, healthy and happy staff.

Dummer Down Café & Grocery is set in the outbuildings of Dummer Down Farm on the outskirts of Basingstoke. The site includes a large café with a kitchen and retail space that stocks locally farmed meat, and deli items such as charcuterie and cheese, breads and patisserie.
There is great outside seating, and the opportunity to use the space for private functions.

Benefits

  • Career progression and Training
  • Staff meal per shift

In return for your hard work, we offer: 

- Secure employment contracts 
- Full training and opportunity to develop within the business
- Free meal on duty
- 20% off all products
- Discounted Cookery School Courses

Key Skills and Experience

  • You will need to have worked in a kitchen and trained as a commis chef and be of a basic CDP level

  • Preparing, cooking and presenting high quality dishes 

  • Assisting the Chef and in creating menu items, recipes and developing dishes

  • Preparing meat and fish

  • Assisting with the management of health and safety

  • Assisting with the management of food hygiene practices

  • Monitoring portion and waste control

  • Overseeing the maintenance of kitchen and food safety standards

  • Knowledge and ability to run a section

  • Ability to work without close supervision

  • High level of attention to detail

  • Enthusiasm to develop your own skills and knowledge plus those around you

  • Adaptability to change and willingness to embrace new ideas and processes

  • Positive and approachable manner

  • Team player qualities

Desirable Skills and Experience

  • Level 3 Food Safety Awards


Education and Training

  • NVQ Level 2

  • Minimum 1 years relevant experience

  • Awareness of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) and chemical safety

  • Experience of kitchen equipment

  • Experience of dangerous equipment such as knives

  • Understandable level of English spoken and written

Honesty Group is an independent business operating pubs, restaurants, coffeeshops, and farm shops as well as serving our online and wholesale customers. Opened in 2014, Honesty Group now runs 14 sites across Berkshire and Hampshire, with our strong community-led values, and people-first approach separating us from our competitors. We are committed to holding ourselves to the highest standards with regards to the environment and sustainability, with all our food made by hand by our incredible team of chefs and bakers utilising fresh, seasonal, local ingredients (where possible) and served to our customers by dedicated, healthy and happy staff.

Dummer Down Café & Grocery is set in the outbuildings of Dummer Down Farm on the outskirts of Basingstoke. The site includes a large café with a kitchen and retail space that stocks locally farmed meat, and deli items such as charcuterie and cheese, breads and patisserie.
There is great outside seating, and the opportunity to use the space for private functions.

Benefits

  • Career progression and Training
  • Staff meal per shift

In return for your hard work, we offer: 

- Secure employment contracts 
- Full training and opportunity to develop within the business
- Free meal on duty
- 20% off all products
- Discounted Cookery School Courses

Key Skills and Experience

  • You will need to have worked in a kitchen and trained as a commis chef and be of a basic CDP level

  • Preparing, cooking and presenting high quality dishes 

  • Assisting the Chef and in creating menu items, recipes and developing dishes

  • Preparing meat and fish

  • Assisting with the management of health and safety

  • Assisting with the management of food hygiene practices

  • Monitoring portion and waste control

  • Overseeing the maintenance of kitchen and food safety standards

  • Knowledge and ability to run a section

  • Ability to work without close supervision

  • High level of attention to detail

  • Enthusiasm to develop your own skills and knowledge plus those around you

  • Adaptability to change and willingness to embrace new ideas and processes

  • Positive and approachable manner

  • Team player qualities

Desirable Skills and Experience

  • Level 3 Food Safety Awards


Education and Training

  • NVQ Level 2

  • Minimum 1 years relevant experience

  • Awareness of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) and chemical safety

  • Experience of kitchen equipment

  • Experience of dangerous equipment such as knives

  • Understandable level of English spoken and written