Chef

Active Care Group; Husbands Bosworth; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday off

25 days annual leave

Nest Pension

Medicash Health Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Active Reward App

Refer a Friend £1500

Job summary

Active Care Group is seeking a Chef for Kingly House in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The role oversees the full kitchen for a residential service serving up to 17 adults, with duties from cooking and plating to stock control and cleaning. The post offers full-/part-time hours and pro rata salary.

You’ll work to high standards of food safety, dietary accommodation, and service quality, with opportunities for development within a supportive clinical and leadership team.

Qualifications

• Passion for caring for clients.
• Creative approach to cooking diverse meals.
• Strong attention to detail and reliability.
• Able to work in a care home setting.

Responsibilities

• Support smooth, efficient kitchen operations to maintain high food quality.
• Prepare, cook and present meals for service users with dietary needs.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene standards and COSHH.
• Maintain accurate records of food production and supplies.
• Follow planned menus and minimize waste.
• Promote good relationships with staff, visitors and service users.

Skills

Passion for care

Creative cooking

Attention to detail

Team player

Job description

Come and join one of the UK’s largest providers in complex care. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We'd like you to join us as a Chef at our service Kingly House in Hinckley.

Kingly House is a residential house in Leicestershire providing accommodation, rehabilitation and support for up to 17 adults. We're committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.

What you'll be working:

We have both full time and part time to choose from.

• Full time - 40hrs per week
• Salary: £28,428.36 FTE Per Annum (Pro rata)
• Running the full kitchen
• Duties including Cleaning, stock control, pot washing and putting orders away.
• Be able to work on your on.
• Ideally have care home experience care

What you'll be doing:

• To support the smooth and efficient operation of the kitchen to ensure the centre’s reputation for food quality is always maintained.
• To prepare, cook and present food for the service users, ensuring any special dietary requirements are provided and that this is to the standards required by the company and service users.
• To ensure that the centre’s reputation for food quality and service is enhanced with everyone that uses the facility.
• To drive and maintain the highest standards of food safety and hygiene, liaising with Environmental Health inspectors if necessary.
• Ensuring the centre meets all relevant legislation on food preparation and handling, including observance of the HACCP and Safer Food Better Business Principals as well as COSHH
• Inspecting dishes for quality, temperature and attractiveness before serving.
• Maintaining records relating to food production activities and supplies information as required by the Head of Support Services.
• To work to planned menus.
• To avoid unnecessary wastage and deterioration of foodstuffs.
• To promote good relationships with staff, visitors and service users.
• To maintain a clean environment, washing up and adhering to cleaning schedules.

What you'll have:

• A passion in caring for client needs
• Being you
• Being creative in coming up with different ways to cook
• Attention to detail
• Making sure all requirements are well noted and provided.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
• and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Take a look around the company https://activecaregroup.co.uk/