Expires soon The Avenue Cookery School

Full Time Cookery Teacher

  • Internship
  • City of London (Greater London)
  • Accounting / Management control

Job description

The Avenue Cookery School is an expanding, small but mighty, family-run company that teaches cooking to all ages and abilities. We are a small, fun team bursting with energy and drive, who are seeking a like-minded, fluent English speaker who is starting out in the food world, to join our family/team.

No experience needed but a strong will to learn and absorb our knowledge and ways. A real hard-working with the ability to transfer your passion and, soon to be extensive cooking knowledge, with others in a fun and relaxed way. A multitask-er, who can get their head down and work quickly and efficiently while being easy going, friendly and not being afraid to muck in and get their hands dirty. Great future opportunities for the right person!

The role will include a number of teaching/cooking duties starting as an assistant and training to be solely in charge of classes. There will also be general business related responsibilities, including working alongside the office team to expand class/recipe and marketing ideas.

KITCHEN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Assisting chefs
Mis en place
Eventually teaching and running classes
Helping and guiding students
Recipe testing
Helping with general kitchen upkeep, including washing up and deep cleaning

GENERAL/OFFICE RESPONSIBILITIES
Some social media
Discussing new class ideas and food trends
Thinking of new partnerships and contacting potential affiliates
Typing up new and tested menu's
Attending fairs

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
Amazing verbal communicator
Attention to detail
Passion for food
Fast and keen learner
Strong initiative and proactive
Ability to cope with busy and challenging environments & work to fast deadlines
Strong organisational & prioritising skills

BEHAVIOURS
Fun and upbeat
Entertaining
Good communicator
Ability to work independently and as a team
Punctual
Flexible
Highly efficient
Reliable
A people person
Confident manner
Trustworthy and steadfast
Resourceful
Hard working!! and the want to help grow an ever-growing business!!!

PAYMENT & PERKS
£20-25k per annum, experience depending
28 Days Holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
Workplace pension
Meals provided when working

Due to some late nights and varying hours, ideally you would live in the South West London area. We need someone who can be flexible with working hours and can work weekdays/nights/weekends/bank holidays etc.

PLEASE make your application personal and specific to the job and addressed to Sophie - we will not read past the first line if it is a generic email - we are a personal company and want to work with like-minded people. The Avenue Cookery School is a funky, fun business that has been running for over 14 years teaching cooking to all ages and abilities and looks forward to having a new team member join our crew!

Desired profile

No formal teaching experience needed, just good communication skills, easy to approach and willingness to share your passion and learn The Avenue way! We don’t expect you to have the broad range of skills that we teach as you will be taught as you go along.

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