Cook - Bank

Bupa; Great Dunmow; Presencial; GBP 18.000 - 19.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Bupa Croft House Care Home in Great Dunmow is seeking a part-time Cook to join our kitchen team. You will prepare fresh meals for residents at Croft House, ensuring nutritional balance and dietary needs are met. The role supports a caring environment, with opportunities to contribute to seasonal menus and special events.

At Croft House, we value resident comfort and food quality. The role includes training and teamwork in a busy kitchen, with emphasis on safe food handling and cooperative

Formación

• Passion for cooking and experience in fresh food kitchens.
• Maintain high hygiene standards and food safety.
• Willingness to adapt recipes to residents’ needs.

Responsabilidades

• Create varied and nutritious menus aligned with residents’ dietary needs.
• Deliver an excellent dining experience that makes residents feel at home.
• Train and supervise kitchen team in prep, cooking and service.

Conocimientos

Cooking passion

Fresh food kitchen

Hygiene certificates

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

Cook - Bank Location: Croft House Care Home - Braintree Road, Great Dunmow, Essex CM6 1HR

Salary: £12.85 - £13.85 per hour depending on experience

Contract: Bank - zero hours contract

Carehome.co.uk rating: 9.7 / 10

About Croft House Care Home

Croft House offers nursing, residential and short stay care. They’re here when you and your loved ones need them most. For planned respite or last- minute trips. A safe space to recover after an operation. To experience what their home’s like before moving long- term. To just relax. Whatever the reason, their doors are open. Croft House is an elegant and spacious home situated within a leafy suburb close to Stansted Airport. The home is set in stunning, well-maintained gardens and is also situated within walking distance of the main high street of Great Dunmow, which is ideal for residents to get out and about. At Croft House, staff take great care to focus on the person. It’s important for residents to feel at home, so staff create a friendly environment with an individually appropriate balance of care and independence. Enjoying food is an important part of life. The chefs create well-crafted menus made with the freshest ingredients and they try to cater for all ethnicity groups. Soon after a resident arrives at Croft House, staff discuss their personal preferences and dietary needs with them.

We make health happen. Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives. Our fantastic Kitchen Team are the magic behind each delicious dish we serve our guests. They are passionate about all things food and take great pride in each dish they prepare. We are looking for an equally passionate Assistant Chef to join the team and help deliver an excellent dining experience for our residents.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Using your passion for cooking and fresh ingredients to create varied and nutritional menus in line with dietary needs and preferences of our residents
• Putting forward ideas to deliver an excellent dining experience, helping our residents to feel at home
• Training and managing the kitchen team in prepping, cooking and serving of food
• Adhering to COSHH and HACCP guidelines, company policies and procedures, budgets, managing orders and deliveries
• Catering for special events or seasonal activities, such as summer fetes, Christmas parties and birthdays (as required)

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• A passion for cooking with previous experience working in a fresh food kitchen and relevant hygiene certificates.
• You want to create and deliver an excellent dining experience at each meal and make our residents feel at home.
• Open to new ideas, you’ll have an innovative approach to cooking whilst always adhering to high standards.
• You’ll enjoy communicating with others and you’ll cherish the little moments with our residents, sharing your love of food with them.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.

This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Please note, this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UK's Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.

Time Type: Part time Job Area: Locations: Croft House

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