Care Home Head Chef

Springcare Ltd; Brighton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run residential and nursing care group in Brighton is seeking a Head Chef to join their kitchen team. The successful applicant will lead food preparation and ensure the highest standards of cleanliness and safety while serving delicious, home-cooked meals. Candidates with experience in the food industry and a Food Hygiene certificate are preferred. The role offers permanent contracts, pension scheme, and ongoing training opportunities.

Benefits

Access to work-based pension scheme

Early pay using Wage Stream App

Access to Blue Light Card

Ongoing CPD and funded training

Refer a friend scheme

Counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in the food industry and ability to be part of a strong kitchen team.
• Experience in a care setting would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Knowledge of textured/modified diets would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for organising, preparing, and serving appetising and freshly produced food.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and health and safety.

Skills

Team collaboration

Food preparation

Health and safety standards

Education

Basic or Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate

Job description

Overview

Ringway Mews – Head Chef.

About Springcare

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.

We’re hiring

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

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.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in the food industry; ability to be part of a strong kitchen team.
• Experience in a care setting would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Basic or Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate
• Knowledge of textured/modified diets would be an advantage

Benefits and features

• Permanent full and part time day contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App – withdraw up to 50% of earnings in advance of pay
• Access to Blue Light Card – 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 (T&Cs apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal
• Two written references, DBS check (depending on role), and evidence of right to work in the UK

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.