Casual Cook

Bield Housing and Care; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

50% Disclosure checks

Flexible hours

Evenings & weekends

Varied sites

Job summary

Bield Housing and Care in Glasgow is seeking a Casual Cook for our Retirement Housing with Meals development at Kintail Gardens. You will work with a supportive team to deliver high-quality meals while accommodating dietary requirements and contributing to residents’ quality of life.

The position is on-site, part-time with flexible hours, offering an hourly rate of £14.07. This role provides practical experience in social and health care catering and requires availability for evenings and

Qualifications

• Experience in catering and managing dietary requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide a flexible meals service with high-quality, freshly prepared meals within budget.
• Assist with ordering, purchasing and storing food commodities within budget.
• Ensure food hygiene and health and safety standards are met and promote them.

Job description

Casual Cook

Company: Bield Housing and Care

Salary: from £14.07 an hour

Hours: Part-time

Location: Glasgow, G53 7XA

Working pattern: On-site

Job type: Contract

Posting date: 10 Nov 2026

Closing date: 24 Nov 2026

Summary

We are recruiting a Casual Cook to work within our Retirement Housing with Meals development at Kintail Gardens.

Are you looking for a challenging role where you can learn new skills and deliver great food? Are you experienced in catering and managing dietary requirements?

The role of a chef/cook within our Kintail Gardens development is more than just cooking. You will be working with our team to provide a high quality of life for those that need it.

Please see the attachment above for the full job description and person specification.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the provision of a flexible meals service, offering high quality, freshly prepared meals and value for money to tenants in a retirement housing service.
• Assisting with the ordering, purchasing and storing of food commodities working within the food budget.
• Ensuring all food hygiene and health and safety standards set by Bield and where appropriate outside regulators are met and actively promote such standards within the development.

What We Offer

• Hourly rate £14.07
• We pay 50% of the cost of Disclosure checks
• Flexible working hours including evenings and weekends
• No obligation to accept shifts so easy to fit in with personal commitments
• Work in a wide variety of housing and care services and roles
• Valuable practical work experience in social and health care sector

Important Information

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 – you must disclose all unspent and relevant spent convictions.

Bield Housing & Care does not currently hold a sponsorship licence – we are unable to support visa applications at this time.

Disability Confident

Bield is a proud disability confident accredited employer. As users of the disability symbol, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the vacancy minimum criteria.

In order to help you succeed, we will make all required reasonable adjustments to facilitate your inclusion during our recruitment and selection process. Adjustments will vary from person to person; if you wish to discuss how Bield can support you throughout the recruitment process, please get in touch.

Company Details

Bield Housing & Care. Scottish Charity no. SC006878 I Property Factor PF000146