Care Home Cook

Springcare Ltd; Brighton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run care group is seeking a dedicated Cook who will prepare delicious home-cooked meals for residents. Ideal candidates will have experience in food preparation and a Basic Food Hygiene certificate. The role includes maintaining cleanliness and providing a supportive team environment. Competitive benefits include flexible contracts, access to training, and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Access to work placed pension scheme

Early pay via Wage Stream App

Savings through Blue Light Card

Fully funded training for qualifications

Counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in the food industry is essential.
• Knowledge of textured/modified diets is an advantage.
• Basic or Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate required.

Responsibilities

• Organise, prepare, and serve appetising freshly produced food.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and health and safety.
• Be a helpful leader in a busy kitchen environment.

Skills

Experience in food preparation

Teamwork

Creativity

Basic Food Hygiene

Job description

Bucklow Manor Care Home - Cook - 30 hours per week

What is it like to work at Springcare?

Here is what one of our valued Cooks said- “It gives me a great sense of satisfaction to know that our residents enjoy home cooked food keeping a sense of familiarity in their lives”.

We are a family run group of Residential and Nursing homes in Shropshire, Cheshire and The Wirral and we want you to join our Springcare family. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, who strives to provide a healthy and respectful work culture.

Do you enjoy being creative and have a passion for serving delicious, home cooked food? Well, we are now recruiting for a hard working committed cook to join the Kitchen team.

Duties and Responsibilities.

Reporting to the Home Manager the successful applicant will be an organised and helpful leader in a busy kitchen environment. You will be responsible for organising, preparing, and serving appetising and freshly produced food, whilst maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and health and safety.

Key to your success in this role will be your experience within the food industry, along with the ability to be part of a strong team in the kitchen. Experience in a care setting would be an advantage but not essential.

What are we looking for?

Basic or Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate
Knowledge of textured/modified diets would be an advantage
What Springcare can offer to you:

Permanent full and part time day contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
Early pay using Wage Stream App – you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
Access to Blue Light Card – where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
Full support with ongoing CPD and access to fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications with career progression opportunities
Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
Access to counselling and wellbeing support
Family friendly policies
Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal
Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.