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Pilgrims' Friend Society

Preston

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GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Part time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Join a leading care home as a Cook, where you'll prepare and serve delicious meals while supporting the dining needs of older residents. This part-time role offers flexible hours, various employee benefits, and a chance to be part of a caring community. Ideal for candidates with catering experience looking to progress in a fulfilling environment.

Benefits

Weekend rate: £15.30 p/h

Training & development

Career development

Paid DBS checks

Friendly staff team

Ongoing support from management

Flexible working hours

Team events

Pension scheme

Medicash

Employee assistance programme

Long-standing service rewards

Birthday rewards

Qualifications

Experience as a cook or kitchen assistant.
Ability to prepare meals to a good standard.
Empathy working with older people.

Responsibilities

Prepare, cook and serve nutritionally balanced meals.
Maintain cleanliness and hygiene in the kitchen.
Support resources and team efforts for excellent service.

Skills

Catering experience

Cooking skills

Food hygiene regulations knowledge

Education

Basic food hygiene certificate

Food-related qualification

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We currently have an opportunity for a skilled individual who will support our Catering Team in our residential care home for older people in Preston.

This role is ideal for a candidate who has experience as a cook and would ideally like a role that both supports the Catering Manager or a kitchen assistant who is looking for the next step up and build on their experience.

Have a watch here of 'What it means to work in a Christian Care Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCa1_BtS34w '

Responsibilities:

Prepare, cook and serve nutritionally balanced and attractive meals with due regard to preferences and special dietary needs.
Observe food hygiene regulations.
Observe all minimum temperature and food hygiene regulations during cooking, reheating and serving of food.
Maintain the kitchen and food storage rooms, crockery, cutlery and utensils in a high state of cleanliness and tidiness.
Maintain all records when on duty.
Attend meetings and training activities as required.
Work as part of a team and be willing to take on any task, within your capabilities, to provide an excellent service to our residents.

We offer a full induction to the work and also provide other training as required by the post.

For more details please take a look at the Job Description

About you:

You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have empathy with them;
You must enjoy cooking and be able to cook and prepare food to a good standard;
A basic food hygiene certificate and a food-related qualification would be an advantage but is not essential, as long as you have cooking skills and experience.

For more details please take a look at the Person Specification.

Hours:

Various hours available - to be discussed at interview

Benefits:

Weekend rate: £15.30 p/h
Training & development
Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
Paid DBS checks
Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
Ongoing support from management
Flexible working: various working hours
Team events
Pension scheme
Care Friends referral
Medicash
Perkbox - including an Employee assistance programme.
Long-standing service rewards
Birthday rewards
What our staff say about us: ..."It is a friendly and welcoming place to work" ... -

Pilgrims' Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested

INDHSP

Seniority level

Seniority level
Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type
Part-time

Job function

Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care

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