Kitchen Assistant

We’re Louise and Deborah, the Nursery Managers at Sheffield Nursery.

With over 50 years of combined experience in early years, we are deeply dedicated to creating a warm, caring, and inspiring environment for every child in our care.

Located in the heart of Sheffield, our nursery takes great pride in delivering outstanding early years education to our wonderfully diverse and culturally enriched community. Every day, we strive to create an inclusive space where all children feel welcomed, valued, and inspired to learn.

Children thrive through imaginative play in our thoughtfully designed learning spaces—such as our vibrant marketplace role-play area, which encourages creativity and collaboration.

We embrace and celebrate the rich diversity of our community, marking a variety of cultural festivals throughout the year with our children and their families—fostering a strong sense of belonging and mutual respect.

Storal’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 Kitchen assistant, you will provide essential support during periods of leave, absence, or when additional help is needed. Working closely with the Nursery Cook, you’ll assist in preparing nutritious, freshly made meals while 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 during these periods.

Day to day you will find yourself;

• 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.
• Deputising for the permanent Nursery Cook in all absences with the expectation of deputising full time when this is required.

We’d love to talk to you if you have the following

You are a dedicated, Level 2 Food and Hygiene qualified cook looking to work in a fun, friendly team with hours that fit around your other commitments. With a solid understanding of Health and Safety regulations and COSHH, you’re now seeking a new role where you can thrive and make the most of your culinary skills.

• 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 at a glance

• For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain.
• Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more).
• Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more.
• Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund.
• Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.
• We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge
• We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

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.