Cheese Making Assistant, Botton Village- Job Description

Job description and person specification Cheese Making Assistant

Botton Village, Near Danby, North Yorkshire

Job title:

Cheese Making Assistant

Location:

Botton Village, Near Danby, North Yorkshire.

Purpose:

To help our cheese makers continue to make great, award-winning cheese.

Salary:

£12,600.90 per year (£10.77 per hour).

Hours:

22.5 hours per week.

Are you interested in cheese? Can you see yourself working with us?

We have an opening for you to join us as a Cheese Making Assistant at Botton Village near Danby, North Yorkshire. If the following appeals, we’d love to hear from you.

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You’ll have a keen interest in cheese! Either as a consumer or interest in learning a new skill.

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You’ll need to have a strong attention to detail and be able to follow instructions.

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You’ll be able to act quickly and responsively at key points of the cheese making process: our cheese production is time critical and needs some TLC.

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Are you able to lift up to 10kg above your head (the weight of our wheel cheeses)?

You’ll need a minimum level of physical fitness, but you don’t need to be a body builder!

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You’ll have a keen interest in learning all about cheese production.

Who are we looking for?

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You’ll probably be a fan of cheese: we do allow samples to be tried and sometimes taken home.

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You’ll have great attention to detail and the ability to follow set instructions and guidelines pertaining to all aspects of cheese making

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You’ll enjoy working in a team but be confident in taking on personal responsibilities.

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You’ll need to have a very high personal hygiene standard.

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You will probably find it easier if you have your own transport as we’re in a beautiful valley near Danby, North Yorks, and public transport is limited: but this isn’t essential providing you can get to and from the site.

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You’ll enjoy working in a small, close team and enjoy the fun element of the environment.

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You may even have a passion for the countryside and a rural setting: Botton Village is set in a beautiful valley, on over 1,000 acres.

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You’ll have a kind a considerate manner as the creamery is based in Botton Village which is home to many people we support who have learning disabilities.

What are the main responsibilities of this role?

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You’ll be overseeing the machinery used in the production of our high-quality cheeses.

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Testing of cheese at all stages of the production process: a high level of accuracy and attention to detail is required at all stages.

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There’s some manual work involved: putting cheese into the mould presses, moving cheese wheels around, lifting on to shelves, packing for dispatch.

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You’ll be responsible for accurately measuring the ingredients in accordance with the production requirements.

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Be responsible for meeting all time sensitive activities: our cheeses are sticklers for promptness.

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Ensuring all the cheese making machinery is cleaned to the highest food-grade standards.

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Be part of the team responsible for keep the building clean: we’re all responsible for pushing a brush!

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You’ll ensure that all work carried out is in accordance with training and supervision you receive and in accordance with the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and Camphill Village Trust’s Risk Assessments.

Role requirements: •

Good level of standard education.

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A sense of humour and positive attitude really helps, we don’t expect our colleagues to be standup comedians, but we do enjoy having fun.

What do we offer you?

In addition to a competitive salary, our benefits include: •

25 days annual leave PLUS 8 statutory bank holidays rising to 27 days annual leave at two years’ service (pro rata and accrued according to number of shifts worked).

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Once you join us, you'll be eligible to benefit from "Charity Discounts" where you can enjoy reductions from lots of differing retailers and service providers.

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An opportunity to ‘cash in’ one week leave a year.

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Employee assistance scheme that is also available to your immediate family.

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Free on-site parking.

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Sick pay entitlement after one month service.

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Pension Scheme: we contribute to a pension scheme along with your personal contributions.

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Death in Service benefits: payments made to your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen.

All our employees require a DBS criminal record check. We will do this for you.

About the charity Camphill Village Trust is an award-winning national charity supporting adults with learning and other disabilities. We provide housing, care and support, and day opportunities across our nine communities in England. We enable people to lead safe, healthy, happy lives and to be active citizens.

About Botton Village and the service

We have our own dairy herd of 20 cows who produce over 100,000 litres of milk each year to make our award-winning Dale End Cheddar cheese.

Our award-winning cheeses are sold all over the UK – We were awarded Gold at the 2017/18 World Cheese Awards.

Our cheeses have appeared on Paul Hollywood’s “Pies and Puds” programme.

The types of cheese we create are: •

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Cleveland cheese is Botton Creamery’s re-invention of a cheese made in the local area up until the 1930s.

Award winning Dale End cheddar (our cheddar matures for 12 – 18 months) Summerfield, St Martin, Gresford

The people we support have a wide range of activities they can participate in or learn. Many of the items we make are sold in our shops or online.

Our craft workshops provide creative experiences in woodworking, textiles, pottery and art.

We’re quite unique: there’s a village shop, café, supported homes, a walled garden, woodworking and creative studios, a lego studio, massive greenhouses, a 200 seater theatre and stunning scenery at every turn.