Cook

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Elysium Healthcare as a Cook at Emerald Place Clinic and unleash your culinary creativity in a fulfilling role. You'll prepare meals for service users, manage kitchen operations alongside a supportive team, and ensure food safety standards while enjoying a balanced work-life combo with 33 days of leave, free meals, and more.

Benefits

Annual salary of £28,000

33 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays

Free meals

Free parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older.
• Previous experience in a similar environment required.
• Experience in mass service delivery is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head Chef in daily kitchen operations.
• Prepare, plan, and cook meals to high standards.
• Maintain food hygiene and safety regulations in the kitchen.

Skills

Food Preparation

Menu Planning

Stock Control

Budget Management

Education

GCSE or equivalent English

City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 or equivalent

Basic Food Hygiene

Intermediate Food Hygiene

Job description

Introduction

Ready for a cook role that lets you unleash your creativity? If so, joinEmerald Place Clinicas a Cook working alongside a dedicated team.

Become a crucial part of the kitchen team working 37.5 hours a week, crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. Dive into food preparation and elevate your role by providing guidance and training to your peers.

Here’s the exciting part- the calendar is buzzing with activities, events and special occasions which you’ll also cater for. From World Food Day to festive moments like Christmas and Easter, you get to infuse your own flair and keep things exciting.

It’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and enjoy creating delicious meals. There’s a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly.

Just imagine… great job satisfaction, home in time for dinner every night and two days off a week. Now that’s a recipe for a balanced work-life combo.

As a Cook you will be:

• Supporting the Head Chef for the day-to-day running of the kitchen
• Maintaining good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures
• Preparing, planning and cooking meals to a consistently high standard, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit
• Serving service users, staff and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous services manner
• Preparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets
• Participating in food costings through effective cost control procedures
• Adhering to the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ standards and record keeping
• Adhering strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times
• Taking full shift responsibility for the catering operation
• Assisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and compliment healthy eating guidelines
• Correctly filling of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e. Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• To be 18 years or older
• GCSE or equivalent English
• City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
• Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
• Intermediate Food hygiene (desirable)
• Previous experience in a similar environment
• Previous experience in delivering a service on mass
• Menu planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budget experience

Where you will be working:

Address: Emerald Place, Farmfield Drive, Charlwood, Surrey, RH6 0BN

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Elysium Healthcare have worked in partnership to provide a new purpose-built Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Surrey.

Emerald Place Clinic is a general adolescent inpatient unit for the care and treatment of young people aged 13 up to the age of 18. Young people who are admitted to the unit will have a primary diagnosis of mental illness across a wide range of disorders and complex needs.

These could include Mental Health conditions such as Mood Disorders and acute Psychosis. Additionally young people may have co-existing additional needs such as Neurodevelopmental Disorders, including mild Learning Disabilities or Autism. A young person could also be admitted if they have disordered eating.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £28,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals
• Free parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and trainingto help youachieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Packageso you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.