Job Introduction
Come and join our fantastic team within our Adult Learning Disability service, where you will work as a Cook on a part-time basis at 30 hours per week.
You will have the opportunity to make a difference to service users by preparing nutritious meals and have the chance to collaborate with senior team managers to create menus. We provide extra training to cover additional knowledge of preparing hot meals for those with texture or flavour requirements. This is a perfect opportunity for someone who wants to gain further experience working as a Cook and to make a difference to those within the community.
Main Responsibility
Working as a Cook, your main responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Play a leading role in a kitchen for a busy service to deliver hot meals for lunch daily to service users and staff
- To maintain a high standard of food hygiene and cleaning duties to maintain an environment suitable for food preparation.
- To monitor stock levels of essential kitchen supplies.
- To always ensure that they are aware of the environment they are working in, and they follow policies and procedures to ensure the safety of the service users, staff, visitors and themselves.
- Supporting and working alongside some of our more independent adults with a learning disability and/or autism to gain and develop their skills in a kitchen environment and independence.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate for this role will have some experience working as a cook in a professional capacity, ideally with experience of preparing nutritious meals.
You will be naturally empathetic and have the ability to build relationships easily in order to support those with learning disabilities.
Although the service is busy, it is important that you feel comfortable and demonstrate the ability to work independently whilst also showing the capacity to work well as a team when necessary.
Package Description
As a Cook, you’ll be part of our valued team at Carrswood Day Services in Bath.
You will feel valued as a Cook within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £21,000 (pro-rated to the hours worked) with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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