Second chef/cook – Part-time – Birchy Hill Care Home

Hours: 27 per week

Pay: £10 per hour

To keep our beautiful and friendly 65 bed care home running smoothly, we are looking for an experienced second chef/cook to join us, for 27 hours per week, from early September 2021. We need caring and compassionate, hardworking team players to help us provide the type of home environment you’d want your own relatives to have.

Ideally with an interest in working in a care home setting where residents are living with dementia and you will already hold a minimum Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate.

You need to be reliable with good time management skills and be flexible to help our home run smoothly, including covering for colleagues’ holidays from time to time, you will also be required to lead the kitchen when head chef is absent. You will help to ensure a quality food service is provided, maintaining a clean and safe work environment to comply with Health and Safety and Food Hygiene regulations, manage kitchen stock control, be able to follow menus and recipes as set out by the home.

You will understand the importance of nutritious, varied and well-balanced meals, for our residents’ physical and mental well-being. Your excellent communication skills and your ability to work well within a team will ensure you compile suitable menus, along with input from other members of staff and the residents’ own preferences, thereby promoting choice, dignity and respect.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of adults and successful applicants are required to provide an enhanced DBS disclosure at their own cost.

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We invest in our staff in training and development above the national guidelines as we recognise our staff are the key to our success. Recruiting and retaining the right staff is paramount. We do this by valuing their input and empowering them throughout their roles.

To apply please contact birchy.jobs@angelcareplc.co.uk