Cook

Bramley Health; Croydon; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Bramley Health's Heron View Care Home seeks an experienced Cook to prepare nutritious meals for service users with mental health challenges. Join a supportive team and interact with residents while maintaining kitchen standards. Enjoy various training and development opportunities, along with attractive retail and travel discounts.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Retail discounts including food shopping, clothes, electronics

Travel discounts for holidays

Energy bill savings

Online courses virtual, live and interactive to upskill yourself

24/7 confidential counselling

Help the planet, plant trees, save turtles!

Qualifications

• Experience in food preparation in care settings preferred.
• Warm, approachable personality required.
• Genuine interest in the wellbeing of service users.

Responsibilities

• Preparing nutritious meals for service users following dietary guidelines.
• Daily cleaning and maintenance of the kitchen and equipment.
• Maintaining inventory of kitchen equipment and produce.

Skills

Food hygiene

Meal preparation

HACCP knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Education

Food hygiene level 2 certification

Job description

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Heron View Care Home are looking for an experienced Cook to join our current team, on Mondays and Wednesdays to produce quality nutritious meals for our service users between the hours of 9-6.

About us

Bramley Health is a specialist health and social care provider. We support men and women of working age who pose variations of mental health challenges within our homes, to maximise their independence to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Heron View is a thirty five bedded specialist care home supporting men with mental health, neurocognitive disorders and acquired brain injury presentations. This is who you will be cooking for.

About the role

Nutrition is an important part of providing the perfect care to our service users, and the Cook does just this! You will have all dietary requirements/ cultural requirements, and a genuine interest in the wellbeing of our service users, to serve up meals following these guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Preparing nutritious meals for service users in line with guidelines/ requirements
• Daily cleaning and maintenance of the kitchen and equipment
• Maintain inventory of kitchen equipment and produce
• Utilise knowledge of HACCP and current food regulations
• Interaction with service users to reflect their food choices
• Food hygiene level 2 certification
• Previous experience of food preparation in a commercial/ domestic/ hospital or care setting
• Warm, approachable personality to engage with service users and vulnerable adults with ease
• Training and development opportunities
• Retail discounts including food shopping, clothes, electronics
• Travel discounts for holidays
• Energy bill savings
• Online courses virtual, live and interactive to upskill yourself
• Help the planet, plant trees, save turtles!
• 24/7 confidential counselling

If you are interested in learning more about the Cook role, then click apply or please do get in touch directly.