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✨Job Title: Prep Chef
📍 Location: Oxygen House, Exeter, and the Five Bells (one Sunday per month)
✨Contract: Fixed-Term (6 Months), with the possibility of extension or a permanent role
⏰Hours : 40 hours per week, primarily Monday to Friday (7:00am to 3:30pm or 9:00am to 5:30pm), plus one Sunday per month
💷Salary: £28,000 per annum plus generous company benefits
📅Start date: Early December 2026
📅Closing date for applications: 30th October 2026
Join a Kitchen That Puts Vegetables First!
Oxygen House Kitchen is an organic, vegetable-led kitchen serving the Oxygen House community. We create fresh, seasonal food with a focus on quality, sustainability and thoughtful cooking.
We're looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Prep Cook to join us on an interim six-month contract. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid kitchen experience, strong knife skills and a genuine interest in cooking with vegetables. You'll play a key role in preparing ingredients, supporting food production and helping us deliver consistently excellent food every day.
Once a month, you'll also support Sunday service at the Five Bells, our community pub, helping to deliver a welcoming and memorable dining experience.
What You'll Be Doing
Preparing vegetables, grains, pulses, sauces, dressings and other ingredients to the standards and quantities set by the Senior Kitchen Team.
Supporting the preparation and cooking of dishes for breakfast, lunch and other services, following recipes and specifications
Assisting with Sunday lunch service at the Five Bells once per month
Working from daily prep lists and production plans, highlighting shortages or issues proactively
Following food safety procedures, including allergen management, labelling, date rotation and temperature monitoring
Maintaining a clean, organised and efficient section throughout your shift
Receiving, checking and storing deliveries correctly
Minimising food waste through careful preparation, good stock rotation and thoughtful use of ingredients
Working collaboratively with the wider kitchen and front-of-house teams
Supporting the senior kitchen team with other reasonable duties as required
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