Cook - Retirement Housing Plus Job profile

Bield Partnership; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Casual hourly rate £14.07

50% of Disclosure checks

Flexible working hours

Varied housing and care services

Job summary

Bield Housing and Care is recruiting Casual Cooks for Retirement Housing with Meals developments in West Lothian. Typical shifts are 09:30–17:30 with a 1-hour unpaid break, offered on a casual basis to cover planned and emergency leave.

You will provide a flexible meals service, handle ordering and stock within budget, and ensure food hygiene and health and safety standards are met. The role offers varied opportunities across sites and evenings/weekends availability.

Qualifications

• Casual Cook positions in West Lothian.
• Typical shift 09:30–17:30 with 1 hr unpaid break.
• Flexible working hours including evenings and weekends.
• Experience in catering and managing dietary requirements.
• You will be working across West Lothian locations and across Bield services.

Responsibilities

• Provide a flexible meals service with high quality, freshly prepared meals.
• Assist with ordering, purchasing and storing food within the budget.
• Ensure all food hygiene and safety standards are met.

Skills

Catering

Food preparation

Food hygiene

Dietary requirements

Job description

Current Vacancies at Bield Housing and Care

Bield is one of the largest providers of housing and support services to older people in Scotland. We value kindness above all and offer a unique opportunity for you to have a positive impact through the work you do each day. We need people with all kinds of skills to work together to deliver our services, which means we have a wide range of opportunities throughout Scotland. We provide lots of training and support so, even if you don't have much experience of working with older people, one of our vacancies might be the perfect role for you.

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Salary £60,837 to £67,708 per annum

Casual Cooks - West Lothian

Date posted 30/10/2026

Job reference REQ02968

Salary £14.07 per hour

Contractual hours 0 Basis Zero Hours

Region West Lothian

Package Competitive benefits package

Job category/type Cooking, Part-time, Permanent

Attachments Cook (Retirement Housing with Meals).pdf

Job description

Casual Cook positions in West Lothian!

We are recruiting casual cooks to work within our Retirement Housing with Meals developments.

Within West Lothian we have the following locations:

• Brae Court, Linlithgow
• Carron Court, Bathgate

Typical shift would be 09:30 – 17:30 with 1 hr unpaid break. Shifts will be offered on a casual basis to cover planned and emergency leave. The ability to accept shifts at short notice would be desirable, however not essential.

You can choose to work at one or both and although this advert is for West Lothian, you will have the opportunity to work across all Bield services.

Are you looking for a challenging role where you can learn new skills and deliver great food? Are you experienced in catering and managing dietary requirements?

The role of a chef/cook within our West Lothian developments is more than just cooking. You will be working with our team to provide a high quality of life for those that need it.

You will be -

• Responsible for the provision of a flexible meals service, offering high quality, freshly prepared meals and value for money to tenants in a retirement housing service.
• Assisting with the ordering, purchasing and storing of food commodities working within the food budget.
• Ensuring all food hygiene and health and safety standards set by Bield and where appropriate outside regulators are met and actively promote such standards within the development.

What We Offer

• Casual Assistant hourly rate is £14.07
• We pay 50% of the cost of Disclosure checks
• Flexible working hours including evenings and weekends
• No obligation to accept shifts so easy to fit in with personal commitments
• Work in a wide variety of housing and care services and roles
• Valuable practical work experience in social and health care sector

Important Information

• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 – you must disclose all unspent and relevant spent convictions.
• Bield Housing & Care does not currently hold a sponsorship licence – we are unable to support visa applications at this time.
• Please see the attachment above for the full job description and person specification.
• Bield Housing & Care. Scottish Charity no. SC006878 I Property Factor PF000146

Disability Confident

Bield is a proud disability confident accredited employer. As users of the disability symbol, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the vacancy minimum criteria.

In order to help you succeed, we will make all required reasonable adjustments to facilitate your inclusion during our recruitment and selection process. Adjustments will vary from person to person; if you wish to discuss how Bield can support you throughout the recruitment process, please get in touch.