Part-Time Weekend Cook – 12 hours a week

Society of St James; Southampton; Sur place; GBP 23 000 - 29 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Buying additional annual leave

Induction and training

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted laptops and computers

Electric Car Scheme

Résumé du poste

Society of St James (SSJ) is seeking a Part-Time Weekend Cook to prepare healthy meals for 30 residents at Southampton Street Homeless Hostel in Southampton. The role is Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00–18:00, on-site, with a focus on safety and hygiene.

You will work with the weekday cook to plan and order weekend meals, and you may engage residents to input menu choices. Training and support are provided to meet diverse needs.

Qualifications

• Experience cooking for a group of up to 30 residents, maintaining health and safety and hygiene standards.
• Ability to liaise with the weekday cook to plan a weekend menu with input from residents.
• Willingness to engage with residents and support life-skills development.

Responsabilités

• Cook healthy meals for 30 residents on Saturdays and Sundays (12:00–18:00).
• Maintain health and safety standards and kitchen hygiene at all times.
• Liaise with the weekday cook to order food and plan weekend menus with resident input.

Connaissances

Cooking for groups

Health and safety

Hygiene standards

Description du poste

Part-Time Weekend Cook – 12 hours a week, Southampton, England, £25,947.00

Employment Type

Part Time

Application Start Date

05-10-2026

Application End Date

23-10-2026

Location

Southampton, England

State/County

Hampshire

SO15 2ED

Country

United Kingdom

Work Style

On-site

Non-profit charitable organisations

Experience

Experience cooking for a group of up to 30 residents, maintaining health and safety and hygiene standards, and engaging with residents.

Description

Part-Time Weekend Cook – 12 hours a week

Saturday and Sunday 12 noon – 6pm

Southampton Street Homeless Hostel, Southampton

About Us

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Charity and Housing Association. The Society of St James (SSJ) has been working in Hampshire for over 50 years, delivering high impact, person-centred, accommodation services to adults and young people experiencing homelessness, problematic substance use and/or poor mental ill health. We believe that every person is of worth and we are prepared to take risks to house and support the most at risk and socially excluded members of society.

The Role

We are looking for an applicant who can cook, healthy home cook meals and scale it up to feed 30 residents.You will be responsible for health and safety standards at all times and that the kitchen meets the required hygiene standard. You will liaise with the weekday cook to order food, plan and prepare a weekend menu with some input from the residents around choice of meals provided.

The Ideal Candidate

Part of the role involves resident engagement and enhancing life-skills, so there will be times where residents may help out in the kitchen with your guidance. You be working with people with a diverse range of complex needs, so knowledge around some of the issues people experience with homelessness will be useful, but training will be provided.

Working hours are 12.00noon – 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays. You may be required on occasion to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service and to cover annual leave.

Good team player, reliable with a passion for working with people. This is a very rewarding position for the right person.

What we can offer you

We value and recognise our staff, offering some generous benefits, as well as the satisfaction of helping people at risk:

• A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days rising to 30 days, plus public holidays
• Flexible working options
• Buying additional annual leave
• Comprehensive induction and training
• Counselling, financial, personal support and health and wellbeing services via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Company cycle to work scheme
• Discounted laptops and computers with Jamie's Computers
• Electric Car Scheme

SSJ are an equal opportunities employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life

At SSJ, we recognise the benefits of a supported workplace. SSJ is affiliated with Unite the Union. To learn more about their membership benefits or to sign up, you can visit their official website.

Due to the high number of expected applicants, we do reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier.

Should you not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted laptops and computers with Jamie's Computers
• Employer pension contributions via salary sacrifice
• Flexible working opportunities
• Counselling, financial, personal support, and health and well-being services via our Employee Assistance Programme