Culinary staff member

Furesø Kommune

3500 Værløse

Location
3500 Værløse
Working hours
Part-time
Part-time hours
20–25 hours/week
Posted
21 October 2026
Application deadline
15 November 2026
Category
Cook

About the job

Parental leave substitute for the kitchen in Nørreskoven – cook for children together with an experienced chef

Would you like to cook good food for children in a modern kitchen with good spirits, high-quality ingredients and an experienced colleague by your side?

In Børnehuset Nørreskoven we are looking for a kitchen assistant for a parental leave position of about 20-25 hours per week.

You will become part of a kitchen where food is an important part of the children’s daily life. We cook for both toddlers and preschool children and have a focus on food joy, variety, climate-friendly meals and meals that children want to eat.

You will work closely with a skilled and experienced kitchen colleague, who is a trained chef and is in the kitchen three days a week. The kitchen is characterized by good humor, cooperation and a daily life where we help each other.

Your tasks will include

  • making lunch for toddlers and preschool children
  • preparing mid-morning and afternoon snacks for the toddler group
  • ordering goods and keeping an overview of the kitchen’s needs
  • working with climate-friendly meals, good ingredients, variety and reducing food waste
  • maintaining hygiene, self-check and daily kitchen routines
  • being involved in creating food joy and food confidence among the children

We hope that you

  • have experience from a kitchen, canteen, café, large-scale kitchen or similar
  • would preferably have a nutrition-related background, but this is not a requirement
  • can work independently and take responsibility
  • are stable, flexible and good at collaborating
  • can order goods and think ahead in everyday life
  • meet children, colleagues and parents with kindness and good humor

Why you should choose us

With us you get

  • a modern and well-functioning kitchen
  • close collaboration with an experienced chef three days a week
  • a workplace with good humor and helpful colleagues
  • a house with a strong focus on a good working environment
  • here we talk to each other and not about each other, high well-being
  • opportunity to work with climate-friendly meals, food joy and good meals
  • a smaller preschool where everyone knows everyone

Børnehuset Nørreskoven is centrally located in Værløse close to buses, trains and good transport options.

The practical

The position is a parental leave substitute of about 20-25 hours per week.

Start: December 1 or by agreement

Application deadline: November 15

Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with current collective agreement. If offered a job, a child and criminal record check will be obtained.

Would you like to hear more?

You are welcome to contact

Daycare Manager Sadedin Jepsen

Tel. 72 16 59 88

Department Manager Nathasja Tange

Tel. 72 16 55 67

Send us your application and CV digitally. If you have a certificate of education or documentation for a food hygiene course, please attach it.

Practical

References from previous employment will be obtained if you are considered for the position.

In Furesø Municipality, salary and employment conditions follow the current collective agreement and are based on the Ny Løn principles.

Please note that your private email and/or phone number will be forwarded to the professional organization in connection with wage negotiations.

Job in Furesø? Come and join us!

In Furesø we create solutions together. With colleagues across the organization. With users and citizens – yes, with everyone we are a municipality for.

Our communities are our answer to the challenges our welfare society will face in the coming years, where more people will need welfare services and for a longer period. And where new ideas must renew the service we provide.

Therefore we make room for meetings between professions and between people, because it is here that innovation arises. We coordinate with each other across titles and areas of expertise, and we keep a good handle on daily operations to create coherence for our citizens. Our daily life focuses on presence rather than absence in a healthy workplace with smoke-free working hours. So come and join us. We also have room for you.

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Culinary staff member

Furesø Kommune · 3500 Værløse