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Alex Campbell

Alex Campbell

Leeds

Summary

Dedicated culinary professional with a strong foundation in dietary requirements understanding and nutritional knowledge. Demonstrates exceptional kitchen management aptitude and quality control diligence, ensuring compliance with sanitation standards and hygienic practices. Skilled in the use of kitchen equipment and dessert creation, aiming to enhance culinary offerings while maintaining high standards of food safety and quality.

High-energy kitchen team member with flexibility to cook delicious dishes from different cuisines, ingredients and recipes. Confident in high-pressure, busy environments and always ready to step in on any station. Highly organised and hardworking with focus on efficiency and consistency.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Cook / kitchen assistant / kitchen porter

Oakfield Nursing Home
Preston, Lancashire
07.2024 - 08.2025

Multi-role employment in a busy nursing home

Cook - responsible for cooking nutritious meals for 57 residents and up to 30 staff per day. Good awareness of IDDSI levels, and producing meals following dietician and speech and language guidelines.

Kitchen assistant - responsible for assisting residents with their oral intake, many of whom had dementia, so needed high levels of support to maintain good levels of nutrition.

Kitchen porter - assisting the cooks in the efficient running of a busy kitchen, including pot washing, fruit and veg prep, and stock rotation and control.

General assistant

Hodgson's Chippy
Lancaster, Lancashire
02.2024 - 06.2024

Assited with all aspects of running a busy chip shop - helped with ingredient preparation, cleaning and serving customers

General assistant

Burger King
Lancaster, Lancashire
07.2023 - 01.2024

Worked for Burger King on a busy service station on the M6. Responsible for food preparation, cleaning and serving customers

Education

GCSEs - Maths, English, Hospitality + 7 Others

Our Lady's Catholic College
Lancaster, Lancashire
09.2016 - 06.2021

A-Levels - Sociology, English and Food Science

Our Lady's Catholic College
Lancaster, Lancashire
09.2021 - 06.2023

Bachelor of Arts - Popular Music Performance - Drums

Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
Leeds
09.2025 -

Skills

  • Dietary requirements understanding
  • Sanitation standards compliance
  • Nutritional knowledge
  • Use of kitchen equipment
  • Quality control diligence
  • Kitchen management aptitude
  • Hygienic practice
  • Dessert creation

Affiliations

  • Music performance - I play the drums and guitar
  • Cooking
  • Gaming
  • Running

Certification

2021 - 10 GCSEs / BTECs

2023 - 3 A levels

2025 - Level 2 Food Hygiene, plus all required mandatory training for working in social care

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Bachelor of Arts - Popular Music Performance - Drums

Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
09.2025 -

Cook / kitchen assistant / kitchen porter

Oakfield Nursing Home
07.2024 - 08.2025

General assistant

Hodgson's Chippy
02.2024 - 06.2024

General assistant

Burger King
07.2023 - 01.2024

A-Levels - Sociology, English and Food Science

Our Lady's Catholic College
09.2021 - 06.2023

GCSEs - Maths, English, Hospitality + 7 Others

Our Lady's Catholic College
09.2016 - 06.2021

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