Residential Service Cook

Hollybank Trust; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A residential care organization in West Yorkshire is seeking a Residential Service Cook to prepare nutritious meals for residents, ensuring compliance with dietary requirements and food safety regulations. Candidates should be confident, curious, and kind. Relevant experience in health and social care is a plus. The organization offers a supportive environment and comprehensive training.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Employee rewards scheme

Comprehensive employee assistance program

Training & Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in health and social care is preferred but not essential.
• Confidence to suggest new ways of working and ask questions.
• Ability to adapt and promote a person-centered approach.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and cook nutritious meals for residents.
• Ensure compliance with food safety regulations.
• Create and maintain a recipe book for meal preparations.

Skills

Food preparation

Food safety compliance

Menu planning

Communication

Job description

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Hollybank Trust

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West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Posted:

01.08.2025

Expiry Date:

15.09.2025

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Job Description:

Role: Residential Service Cook (Poplars)

Location: Mirfield, WF14 0DQ

At Hollybank Trust we believe in providing high-quality, person-centred care to the adults and young people we support. Our dedicated residential teams work with our therapists, enrichment team, and cilnical team to ensure that we provide quality of life, for life.

Key responsibilities:

• To prepare and cook nutritious meals for the adults in the service.
• To follow IDDSI guidelines, ensuring that food is prepared to the right consistency for each individual. (Training given)
• To create and maintain a recipe book that social care staff can follow in your absence.
• To support social care staff and individuals to prepare meals and snacks in line with Food Safety.
• To maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen and appliances to a standard required to meet the food safety regulations.
• To create a weekly menu by involving the adults and ensuring that the menu meets individual dietary requirements.

All training will be given, and you do not need to be a driver to apply for this role. We are particularly interested in recieving applications from candidates who have experience in health and social care, although this is not essential.

What we look for from our staff:

• Confidence - Suggesting new ways of working, not being afraid to ask questions, challenging poor practice when you see it.
• Curiosity - Not seeing any lack of experience as a barrier, asking why we do things in the way we do them, and looking for ways to learn and develop.
• Happiness - Being a reliable and positive person, being outgoing and vibrant, and enjoying the work you do.
• Kindness - Putting the adults first and working in a person-centred way, supporting your colleagues, and looking after yourself!

What we offer:

• A competitive salary and great pension scheme.
• An employee rewards scheme with retail discounts and more.
• A comprehensive employee assistance program, including support for mental health, a company sick pay scheme, and a life insurance benefit.
• A fantastic, open, and supportive working environment.
• Training & Development opportunities to support your development.
• A wealth of opportunities to gain experience in a variety of skills.

Main Responsibilities

Role Specific

Food preparation

To prepare and cook nutritious meals for the adults, young people, or children in the service.

To follow IDDSI guidelines, ensuring that food is prepared to the right consistency for each individual.

To create and maintain a recipe book that social care staff can follow in your absence.

To support social care staff and individuals to prepare meals and snacks in line with Food Safety.

Food safety

To maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen and appliances to a standard required to meet the food safety regulations within the service.

To follow and complete Safer Food Better Business documentation in line with Trust policy.

To follow Food Safety guidelines and legislation around the proper storage of food items.

To complete restocking and ordering of food and other essential kitchen items on a weekly basis.

To maintain budgets in relation to food and drink and ensure less wastage and good stock rotation.

To ensure that meals are planned in line with individual eating and drinking guidelines.

Promoting choice

To create a weekly menu by involving the adults, young people or children and ensuring that the menu meets the dietary requirements of all adults, young people or children.

To plan, create, and regularly review visual menus in order to empower the adults, young people, or children to make choices about the foods they eat in line with the diet and nutritional needs.

To ensure adequate choices of meals, snacks and drinks are readily available for all individuals.

To liaise with SLT and OT to ensure best practice is followed when supporting individuals to make choices.

To support adults, young people and children with meals and drinks as required, following Trust training around dysphagia and sensory impairments.

To plan, prepare for, and run activity sessions that centre around cooking, baking, and food preparation.

General

Best Practice

To maintain an awareness and keep updated with the latest initiatives and thinking, sharing new ideas with colleagues in order to improve organisation performance.

People Development

To participate in supervisions, PDRs and continuous training and development, and to seek ways of continually achieving self-development and career enhancement; to support the future skills requirements of the Trust. To ensure training needs are regularly identified and assessed and action is taken to develop skills including PDR's completed in a timely manner.

To act as a professional and positive ambassador for Hollybank in order to support the Trust's mission and profile.

Policy promotion

To actively promote the Trust's Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Disability Awareness and Data Protection policies and all other existing policies. To ensure that the Trust operates effectively, fairly, and in line with legislative requirements at all times.

To assist the Head of Department in the process of developing risk management strategies in order to safeguard the interests of the Trust.

Safeguarding

To adhere to and follow the Trust's Safeguarding procedures in order to protect the safety of all adults, young people, and children across our services.

Confidentiality

In line with the Data Protection Act you will see the use and safe sharing of information as part of your responsibility. You will ensure you work in line with our data protection and information governance policies and procedures protecting and respecting the privacy of our children, young people and adults.

Flexibility

To carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time to meet the evolving needs of the organisation.

Be Confident

Being self-assured, asking your colleagues for help when you need it; challenging any behaviour or working practices that you feel are inappropriate or unsafe.

Be Curious

Being inquisitive, welcoming change, showing an interest in other people's jobs, not just your own; asking questions about the way that we do things and why; putting yourself forward to try new things and put new ways of working into practice to see if it's better than the status quo.

Be Happy

Being cheerful and positive, bringing your best self to work and immersing yourself in the tasks you are given; exploring opportunities for development and stretch within Hollybank; sharing your enthusiasm for life with the people we are here to support.

Be Kind

Being caring and compassionate, reaching out to your colleagues if they look like they're struggling; being an active member of the team, working together to achieve shared goals; taking care of yourself outside of work and seeking support if you need it.

To act as a professional and positive ambassador for Hollybank Trust in order to support the Trust's mission and profile.

To find out more, please contact Trish Cawood (Registered Manager) on 01924 490833 or [emailprotected] or if you need help with your application email our recruitment team [emailprotected]

Unfortunately we are not able to offer sponsorship to work in the UK, and we do ask that you have at least 6 months of UK based work experience before applying for this role.

Hollybank Trust is committed to Safeguarding vulnerable people, and our Safer Recruitment process requires all employees to have an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks in line with our Recruitment policy.

If the candidate does not have a DBS, Hollybank will pay for the DBS check. If the candidate leaves voluntarily in their first 12 months, £58.50 will be deducted from their final salary payment.

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We want people from underrepresented groups such as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBTQIA+) communities to succeed at Hollybank Trust and our policies and procedures ensure that this can happen. Click here to find out more about our approach to equality and diversity.

Hollybank Trust is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job.