Ready for a chef role that lets you unleash your creativity? If so, joinStanley Houseas a Chef working alongside a dedicated team.
Become a crucial part of the kitchen team working 37.5 hours a week, crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. Dive into food preparation and elevate your role by providing guidance and training to your peers.
From World Food Day to festive moments like Christmas and Easter, you get to infuse your own flair and keep things exciting.
There's a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly.
great job satisfaction, home in time for dinner every night and two days off a week. As a Chef you will be:
Supporting the Head Chef for the day-to-day running of the kitchen.
Maintaining good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures.
Preparing, planning and cooking meals to a consistently high standard, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.
Serving service users, staff and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous services manner.
Preparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets.
Participating in food costings through effective cost control procedures.
Adhering to the 'Safer Food Better Business' standards and record keeping.
Adhering strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times.
Taking full shift responsibility for the catering operation
Assisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and compliment healthy eating guidelines.
Correctly filing of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e. Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules
To be 18 years or older
GCSE or equivalent English
City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
Intermediate Food hygiene (desirable)
Menu planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budget experience
You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to its long term care provision and provides the specialised care and expert therapeutic interventions.
This includes personal care involving washing, dressing, shaving and helping with continence needs. Helping residents to eat is also a big part of the daily routine.
There's plenty of fun to be had too, through supporting residents to take part in regular communal activities, from providing wheelchair and walking assistance, to afternoons of laugher with bouncy castles, family fun days and trips to the local café, shops and bowling. The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - (inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
Free meals and parking
Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
Pension contribution to secure your future.
Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.