Care Home Head Chef

Nellsar Careers; England; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run care company is looking for a Head Chef at St Winifred's Care Home. This role includes preparing high-quality meals tailored to residents' dietary needs, ensuring their preferences are at the heart of the service. Candidates should possess leadership skills and creativity in meal preparation. Nellsar offers competitive pay, flexible hours, and the chance for professional development within a supportive team.

Benefits

Paid training hours

Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays

Refer a Friend payments up to £1000

5.6 weeks annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role preferred.
• Ability to prepare meals for large-scale clientele.
• Understanding of special dietary requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents' preferences are considered in meal preparation.
• Prepare and serve all meals timely and at high quality.
• Manage stock control and budget adherence.

Skills

Leadership skills

Culinary expertise

Creativity in cooking

Understanding dietary needs

Job description

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Job Vacancy: Head Chef
Location: St Winifred's Care Home, 236 London Road, Deal Kent CT14 9PP
Contracted hours: 40 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable),

Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements
(Hourly) rate of pay: Starting from £15.00 (to be discussed at interview)

Are you passionate about food? Do you like to get creative with ingredients and whip up dishes that provide both joy and a healthy balance of nutrition to those you are serving? Do you have exceptional leadership skills and the ability to inspire those around you to achieve amazing results? If so, this could be the next step you've been looking for.

As a Head Chef, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at St Winifred's Care Home.

The perfect role for you
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you'll be responsible for providing high quality, attractive dishes for the people in our care with a range of special dietary and nutritional needs. Catering for large-scale clientele in healthcare requires a driven, enthusiastic, and understanding individual.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive on-going training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

You will have the opportunity to excel whilst:
The Head Chef/Cook responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Ensuring that residents are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes and preferences are taken into consideration to enhance their wellbeing.
• Preparing menus and agreeing them with the residents and the manager, including any resident preferences, special diets and specific foods as needed.
• Preparing and serving all meals in a timely manner.
• Working with fresh produce to deliver high quality and wholesome dishes cooked at the highest quality and standards.
• Working within budgets and managing stock control.
• · Completing regular audits and associated action plans.

For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.com/head-chef-job-description/

What we offer in return to your dedication:

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• ‘Refer a Friend' payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

Why Choose Us?
Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

It's our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.

• You will be an important member of the St Winifred's family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people's quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!