Cook/Kitchen Assistant -Bank/zero hour contract

PILGRIMS' FRIEND SOCIETY; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local care organization in Chippenham is seeking a skilled and caring individual for a part-time Catering role. The position involves preparing and serving meals for residents, ensuring food hygiene standards are met, and maintaining a clean kitchen environment. Ideal candidates will have empathy for older people, cooking experience, and ideally, some familiarity with food hygiene regulations. This role offers £13.40 per hour, with potential for increased pay on weekends and bank holidays.

Benefits

Training & development

Career development opportunities

Paid DBS checks

Pension scheme

Team events

Medicash

Perkbox including an Employee assistance programme

Long-standing service rewards

Birthday rewards

Qualifications

• Enjoys working with older people and can empathize with them.
• Able to cook and prepare food to a good standard.
• Experience in a care environment is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and serve nutritionally balanced meals.
• Observe food hygiene regulations.
• Maintain kitchen cleanliness and tidiness.
• Keep records while on duty.
• Attend meetings and training as required.
• Work as part of a team to provide excellent service.

Skills

Empathy with older people

Cooking skills

Food hygiene knowledge

Education

Basic food hygiene certificate

Food-related qualification

Job description

Do you have catering experience, ideally within a care home setting? If so, we’d love to hear from you! We currently have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and caring individual to join our Catering Team at Middlefields House, our state‑of‑the‑art residential care home for older people in Chippenham, Wiltshire. Food plays a central role in the life of our home, and our Catering Team is key to ensuring our residents enjoy healthy, nutritious, and delicious meals every day. This role is ideal for someone with experience as a cook who enjoys working in a busy kitchen environment, and is also happy to support with general kitchen assistant duties when needed. You’ll help prepare and serve meals for around 48 residents and work closely with our Catering Manager to deliver an excellent dining experience.

For more information please watch here of how we care: https://youtu.be/Po6md7pq7nl

Have a watch here of “What it means for us, to work in a Christian Care Home like ours”: https://youtu.be/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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• The ideal candidate would be someone with experience of working in a care environment.

£13.40 per hour.

Contract: Part‑time. Shifts to cover: 7.30 am–7.30 pm split into two different shifts. Bank shifts to cover for sickness, absence and holidays.

• Cook – £13.40 Basic, £14.97 Saturday after 2 pm and Sunday, £20.10 Bank Holiday.
• Kitchen Assistant – £12.57 Basic, £12.70 Saturday after 2 pm and Sunday, £18.86 Bank Holiday.
• Get paid for doing your training!

Benefits & Development

• 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.
• Assigned buddy.
• 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.