Assistant Cook

Codi Group; Neath; Hybrid; GBP 8,500 - 9,500; Part time

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Benefits

Job summary

Codi Group is seeking an Assistant Cook for our residential care home in Neath. This 18-hour, permanent role involves preparing, cooking, and serving nutritious meals tailored to residents' dietary needs, and leading mealtime experiences with a focus on safety and compassion.

Join our warm catering team in Plas Bryn Rhosyn, a 59-bed home where meals are moments of connection. We value compassion, authenticity, and progression in a not-for-profit setting across Wales.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a professional kitchen or catering environment.
• A passion for providing excellent service and meals that nourish body and spirit.
• A positive, proactive approach and the ability to work independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and serve nutritious meals tailored to individual dietary needs, including special diets.
• Lead the mealtime experience from start to finish: food ordering, storage, prep, cooking, serving, and kitchen clean-up.
• Champion kitchen safety, ensuring all practices follow food hygiene, infection control, and COSHH regulations.
• Bring joy through food – engage residents during meals and foster meaningful conversations.
• Support residents who need assistance at mealtimes with dignity and kindness.

Skills

Kitchen experience

Food preparation

Dietary awareness

Job description

As part of our not-for-profit organisation, whatever your role, you’ll play a unique part in making a remarkable difference to the lives of thousands of people in communities across Wales.

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Assistant Cook to become an essential part of our warm, dedicated catering team in our residential care home in Neath.This is an 18 hour, permanent positionIf you would like the opportunity to work with some truly amazing people please read on…..

Codi is a not-for-profit with a big heart and an even bigger mission. As Wales’ largest provider of housing, care, and support, we’re here to help people live well, feel supported, and rise to their full potential.

Every day, our teams support nearly 17,000 individuals across Wales with services that make a real and uplifting difference to their everyday lives.

Codi means rise in Welsh. It reflects who we are, where we come from, and our ambition to lift expectations, lift communities, and lift each other.

About the role

Plas Bryn Rhosyn is a 59 bed residential care home in Neath. It boasts an excellent reputation as being a quality and valued care provider where the needs of the residents are at the centre of all that we do. As Assistant Cook you will:

• Prepare, cook, and serve nutritious, delicious meals tailored to individual dietary needs, including special diets.
• Lead the mealtime experience from start to finish: food ordering, storage, prep, cooking, serving, and kitchen clean-up.
• Champion kitchen safety, ensuring all practices follow food hygiene, infection control, and COSHH regulations.
• Bring joy through food – engage in meaningful conversations with residents while serving, turning meals into moments of connection.
• Support with care – help residents who need assistance at mealtimes with dignity and kindness.

Working hours are a mix of mornings and afternoons (8am - 2.30pm / 12.30pm - 7.00pm), based on a 2 week rolling rota, with every other weekend off.

Skills and Experience Needed

• Experience working in food preparation in a professional kitchen or catering environment.
• A passion for providing excellent service and meals that nourish both body and spirit.
• A positive, proactive approach and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Pay and Benefits

• Plus a huge range of benefits, pension options, wellbeing resources, perks and rewards, visit: Codi - Benefits

Values

At Codi, our values are Compassionate, Authentic, and Progressive. When you join us, you’ll embrace these principles and thrive in an environment shaped by them.

FREDIE

At Codi Group we are guided, in all that we do, by a group of principles that we call FREDIE, these are: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement. This means that whatever your background, you will have an equal opportunity to rise with us.