Cook/Kitchen Assistant- Bank/zero hour contract
Are you looking for a rewarding side job in a warm, welcoming care environment?
Do you have catering experience, ideally within a care home setting? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and caring individual to join our Catering Team at Middlefields House, our state-of-the-art residential care home for older people in Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Food plays a central role in the life of our home, and our Catering Team is key to ensuring our residents enjoy healthy, nutritious, and delicious meals every day.
This role is ideal for someone with experience as a cook who enjoys working in a busy kitchen environment, and is also happy to support with general kitchen assistant duties when needed. You’ll help prepare and serve meals for around 48 residents and work closely with our Catering Manager to deliver an excellent dining experience. For more information please watch here of how we care:
Have a watch here of "What it means for us, to work in a Christian Care Home like ours":
Responsibilities:
* Prepare, cook and serve nutritionally balanced and attractive meals with due regard to preferences and special dietary needs.
* Observe food hygiene regulations.
* Observe all minimum temperature and food hygiene regulations during cooking, reheating and serving of food.
* Maintain the kitchen and food storage rooms, crockery, cutlery and utensils in a high state of cleanliness and tidiness.
* Maintain all records when on duty.
* Attend meetings and training activities as required.
* Work as part of a team and be willing to take on any task, within your capabilities, to provide an excellent service to our residents.
We offer a full induction to the work and also provide other training as required by the post.
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About you:
* You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have empathy with them;
* You must enjoy cooking and be able to cook and prepare food to a good standard;
* A basic food hygiene certificate and a food-related qualification would be an advantage but is not essential, as long as you have cooking skills and experience.
* The ideal candidate would be someone with experience of working in a care environment
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Hours:
Shifts to cover: split into 2 different shifts
Bank shifts to cover for sickness, absence and holidays.
Benefits:
* Cook - £ Basic, £ Saturday after 2pm and Sunday, £ Bank Holiday
* Kitchen Assistant - £ Basic, £ Saturday after 2pm and Sunday, £ Bank Holiday
* Get paid for doing your training!
* Training & development
* Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
* Paid DBS checks
* Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
* Assigned buddy
* Ongoing support from management
* Flexible working: various working hours
* Team events
* Pension scheme
* Care Friends referral
* Medicash
* Perkbox – including an Employee assistance programme.
* Long-standing service rewards
* Birthday rewards
— What our staff say about us: …“It is a friendly and welcoming place to work” … —
Pilgrims’ Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested
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