Cook - Woodlands Care Home

Norse Group; King's Lynn; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Norse Group is seeking a Cook for the Woodlands Care Home in King's Lynn. This fulfilling role involves preparing and serving nutritious meals, supervising kitchen staff, and ensuring food safety compliance. Ideal candidates will have experience in busy kitchens and a passion for excellent customer service.

Benefits

Fully funded accredited courses

Excellent career progression

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a busy kitchen environment required.
• Good understanding of the food industry, preferred knowledge of textured modified diets.
• Strong communication and customer service skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook food for residents.
• Supervise the onsite catering team.
• Ensure delivery of the catering service in the Cook Manager's absence.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Job description

Are you looking for a career where you can make a difference to the lives of others?

Cook - Woodlands Care Home - Kings Lynn

£13.79 per hour

Joining Norse Group will provide you with a fulfilling role, becoming part of a team that supplies locally sourced, nutritious, and healthy meals to residents within our care homes. We offer fully funded accredited courses, excellent career progression, and job satisfaction from giving back to your community and improving people’s lives.

The opportunity:

• Week 1: Thursday 7.30-6.00, Friday 7.30-6.00
• Week 2: Saturday 7.30-6.00, Sunday 7.30-6.00

A day in the life:

You will become an integral part of our residents’ home through daily interaction, not just at mealtimes but throughout your working day. Our aim is to ensure the wonderful world of food is available to all, including those with eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties. The social aspect of dining and the nutritious content of meals is fundamental to the health and wellbeing of residents in our care settings.

Your role will involve preparing and cooking food, supervising the onsite catering team, and ensuring the delivery of the catering service in the absence of the Cook Manager.

The onsite care team will provide you with essential requirements of residents using a detailed catering handover sheet to ensure a collaborative approach to person-centred care.

Our central team will support you in managing food safety, health and safety, and food allergens, whilst our dedicated menu, promotions, and compliance teams will provide you with menu cycles, nutritional information, IDDSI menus, and promotional posters, giving you time to focus on food.

Our electronic tablet will provide you with access to our kitchen management system and act as a communication tool, providing you with regular updates and keeping paperwork to a minimum.

What are we looking for from you?

You will have previous experience working in a busy kitchen environment with an organized approach, alongside a good understanding of the food industry, ideally with knowledge of textured modified diets (IDDSI) and working to a set budget.

A passion for delivering fantastic customer service is essential, and we will be looking for you to demonstrate strong communication skills with an adaptable approach to work.

Alongside this, we are looking for people who are passionate about supporting others and who share our core values:

• We care completely.
• We collaborate proactively.
• We act with integrity.
• We pursue better.
• We make it happen.

Why work for Norse Catering?

It’s important to us that we give you the confidence and knowledge to perform your role to the best of your ability. We provide access to award-winning training so our residents get the best care, and you have the tools for fantastic self-development, giving you ownership of your career. We want you to succeed!

From day one of your career, you will have access to a flexible benefits package which offers real value. For a complete list of what we offer, please click here to visit our website.

Note: An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, with payment met by the employer. Please click here for details of our DBS policy relating to the recruitment of ex-offenders.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please submit your application early.

If you do not hear from us within two weeks of applying, please assume your application was unsuccessful.

We are committed to employment practices that encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment, and eliminate discrimination.