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New Horizon Youth Centre
For as long as young people are homeless and unsafe in London, we’ll be on a mission to give their potential a home. New Horizon Youth Centre, based in Camden, is a youth homelessness charity. We work with young people aged 16-24 who are facing homelessness or are unsafe in the capital. Our work is organised under 4 key service areas: Housing, Safety, Lifeskills and Health. We deliver…
Description

The Volunteer Kitchen Assistant is part of the NHYC Youth Work Team. New Horizon Youth Centre runs a busy day centre from Monday to Friday. We serve a hot, delicious and nutritious lunch for young people and staff every day. As a Volunteer Kitchen Assistant, you’ll be helping our Chef with the day-to-day running of our kitchen including food preparation, cleaning and supporting the Chef to ensure high standards of safety and food hygiene.

 

Duties

Your volunteer responsibilities will include:

1. Working alongside the NHYC Chef on the daily preparation of up to 100 nutritionally balanced vegetarian and meat dishes.

2. Helping to keep the kitchen area clean, making sure equipment is in good working order and reporting any faults or repairs to the NHYC chef.

3. Following procedures relating to daily kitchen cleaning schedule and ensuring strict adherence to food hygiene regulations, cleanliness, kitchen safety and accurate record keeping (HACCP).

4. Supporting the Chef with serving lunches to up to 100 young people, staff and volunteers.

5. Engaging with young people at lunch and demonstrating patience and compassion with young people when needed.

6. Being creative! Supporting NHYC with meal ideas when required.

7. Assisting with kitchen closedown including washing up, loading/unloading the dishwasher, labelling food and cleaning and tidying kitchen ready for the next day.

8. Following New Horizon Youth Centre’s Health and Safety and Safeguarding policies, taking instructions from the daily duty manager when required.

9. Helping to keep the kitchen area safe and free from hazards.

Who will the volunteers be working with?
The volunteers will be working with our youth work team and Head Chef.
Training
We'll provide a full training and induction for all volunteers - this will include introduction to the day centre, youth homelessness, our kitchen, teams and specific knowledge needed for the role.

Time commitment

A minimum of one day per week from 10am - 2pm.

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.