At Fennies, we believe healthy, nutritious food plays an essential role in every child's development.
As our Area Nursery Chef, you'll support multiple nursery kitchens, ensuring children receive freshly prepared, balanced meals every day while helping to develop and inspire our kitchen teams.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced chef who enjoys variety, thrives in a leadership role, and wants to make a genuine difference in children's lives.
Why join Fennies?
We support our team members with fantastic benefits, career opportunities and a positive working environment.
As an Area Nursery Chef, you'll support kitchens across our nursery group by providing cover during annual leave, sickness and vacancies while helping to maintain exceptional food quality, hygiene and safety standards.
You'll also play an important role in coaching and mentoring Nursery Chefs and Kitchen Assistants, sharing best practice and helping every kitchen deliver outstanding service.
Every day is different. One day you could be supporting a busy nursery kitchen, the next mentoring a new chef or carrying out kitchen quality checks across another setting.
You don't need previous nursery experience - we'll provide the training you need. If you're passionate and organised chef who takes pride in creating high-quality meals and maintaining excellent kitchen standards.
We're looking for someone who is:
Most importantly, you care about the impact your food has on children's health and happiness.
We’re family-owned and family-run; this guides our culture, our decision-making, and what it feels like to be part of our team. From our supportive culture to our high-quality environments, we’re committed to creating exceptional places to work and learn. Our People Promise inspires us to build the kind of culture that is ambitious, passionate and supportive. We provide the environment where you can:
If this sounds like you, or you just want to know more about what it means to be part of the Fennies family, make contact with us today for a chat.
Our friendly Talent Recruitment team are here to answer any questions you may have about Fennies – call us to discuss the role, or if you’re just curious about what it’s like to work at Fennies, let us know, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions. Our Talent Recruitment team can be contacted by:
Phone: 0208 770 3222
By email: talent@fennies.com
Or by making an application: https://fennies.com/contact-us
At Fennies, we celebrate diversity and believe inclusive teams create stronger learning environments for children. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
Fennies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide proof of identity. In line with Safer Recruitment guidance, online searches (including social media) may be conducted for shortlisted candidates.
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Fennies Nurseries first opened our doors in 1992, with the vision to create a vibrant and innovative, home-from-home learning experience. During that 32 years we have opened 26 purpose-built settings, graduated 4539 preschoolers and 818 years of experience out at our sites. We offer the right start for under 5s which is underpinned by holding a sense of family at our core and continually investing to be the best to create an exceptional Early Years experience where children, families and team members can thrive.
