Cook

Pilgrims' Friend Society; Preston; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a caring team at a Christian care home in Preston as a cook. In this role, you'll prepare nutritious meals for older residents, maintain high hygiene standards, and contribute to a supportive environment. Experience in catering is preferred, but training is provided to help you succeed.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Ongoing support from management

Team events

Employee assistance programme

Long-standing service rewards

Birthday rewards

Qualifications

• Experience in catering or as a cook helpful.
• Enjoyment of working with older people and cooking.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook and serve nutritionally balanced meals.
• Observe food hygiene regulations during food handling.
• Maintain cleanliness in the kitchen and food storage areas.

Skills

Cooking skills

Food hygiene knowledge

Empathy with older people

Education

Basic food hygiene certificate

Food-related qualification

Job description

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Do you have catering experience? If yes apply now!

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

• Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
• Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
• Ongoing support from management
• Flexible working: various working hours
• Team events
• Care Friends referral
• 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