Prep Chef

✨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

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