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
2024.07 - 2025.08
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
2024.02 - 2024.06
Assited with all aspects of running a busy chip shop - helped with ingredient preparation, cleaning and serving customers
General assistant
Burger King
Lancaster, Lancashire
2023.07 - 2024.01
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 2016.09 - 2021.06
A-Levels - Sociology, English and Food Science
Our Lady's Catholic College
Lancaster, Lancashire 2021.09 - 2023.06
Bachelor of Arts - Popular Music Performance - Drums
Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
Leeds 2025.09 -
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
2025.09 -
Cook / kitchen assistant / kitchen porter
Oakfield Nursing Home
2024.07 - 2025.08
General assistant
Hodgson's Chippy
2024.02 - 2024.06
General assistant
Burger King
2023.07 - 2024.01
A-Levels - Sociology, English and Food Science
Our Lady's Catholic College
2021.09 - 2023.06
GCSEs - Maths, English, Hospitality + 7 Others
Our Lady's Catholic College
2016.09 - 2021.06