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Belvedere Manor Care Home is a modern, purpose-built home located in the heart of Colne, offering high-quality care for up to 84 residents. Specialising in Residential and Residential Dementia care, the home provides a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment tailored to meet each individual's needs.
Situated on Gibfield Road, Belvedere Manor enjoys a peaceful location while remaining close to local amenities—offering residents the perfect balance of comfort and convenience.
The home features spacious, well-appointed en-suite bedrooms, alongside welcoming lounge and dining areas designed to promote social interaction, relaxation, and a true sense of community. Our dedicated team of permanent staff are carefully selected for their compassion, professionalism, and commitment to delivering exceptional, person-centred care.
With an active lifestyle and well-being programme, residents are encouraged to live fulfilling, engaging lives with a variety of activities and events that support physical, emotional, and social well-being.
Now proudly part of the Lovett Care group, Belvedere Manor upholds our strong values of quality, dignity, and respect—ensuring every resident feels truly at home.
We are seeking to appoint a motivated and experienced Chef to join our team. To work with the Head Chef, to ensure that a high quality of food service is provided to support residents, responsive to their needs and contributes to their overall positive experience of living in the Home. We have a 40 hours contract available with an hourly rate of £14.50. Shift times are, with alternate weekend working.
Role Responsibilities:
* Ensure that menus are presented and displayed in a way that residents can understand them and make daily choice on what they wish to eat during the day.
* Ensure that meals are provided in sufficient quantities, taking into account the diets to meet medical, ethnic and personal needs and preferences.
* Ensure all food is nutritionally balanced, attractively presented for service in a timely manner and in the correct sequence.
* Understand, follow and adhere to company HACCP, ensuring full compliance.
* Ensure that the kitchen and serving areas are clean and hygienic and maintain a high standard of infection control and adhere to the Food Standards Act 1999, and ensuring cleaning rotas are adhered to and records kept.
* Manage, allocate duties and supervise the kitchen team in the absence of the Head Chef ensuring a quality delivery of services.
* Inspire and motivate the team produce food to the expected high standards.
Skills and experience required:
* Experience of working during busy meal periods including breakfast and evening meal service.
* Experience of working in a care home or similar.
* Knowledge of specialised diets and service delivery.
* Ability to contribute and develop the four-week menu.
* Ability to complete records demonstrating adherence to legal requirements.
The Benefits
Opportunities to progress through our career paths into more senior and management roles
* Bank holiday and overtime enhancements
* 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum
* Paid DBS
* Uniform provided
* Paid training
* Refer a friend referral scheme, for the following roles only – Registered Nurse, Team Leader / Senior Care Assistant and Care Assistant
* Excellent induction programme for new starters
* A rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress within the company
* Ongoing support and training for nationally recognised qualifications
* A competitive rate of pay
* Wellbeing programmes
* Ongoing career development
* Pension scheme
* Early Pay - access to your money as you earn (pay advance)
This position is subject to a DBS check