Weekend Only Cook post

Bield Housing and Care; Cumbernauld; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Flexible working

Health care benefits

Credit union

Cycle to work

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & development

Job summary

Bield Housing and Care in Scotland is seeking a weekend cook to join Campsie Gardens development in Cumbernauld. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, freshly prepared meals to tenants while managing dietary requirements and budget.

You will work 14 hours per week, Saturday and Sunday 10:00–18:00, ensuring food hygiene and safety standards. The post offers pension, flexible working, health care benefits, and access to learning and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience cooking in a catering/food service setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide a flexible meals service with high-quality, freshly prepared meals within the housing development.
• Assist with ordering, purchasing and storing food within the budgeted limits.
• Ensure all food hygiene and health and safety standards are met and promote them within the team.

Skills

Cooking

Job description

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 Campsie Gardens development is more than just cooking. You will be working with our team to provide a high quality of life for those that need it.

Hours of employment

14 hours a week - Saturday and Sundays - 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

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

Competitive salary, reviewed annually.

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Opportunities to work flexibly

Access to a health care benefit plan, credit union and cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to access wide range of learning and development activities including management & leadership programmes, job related training and qualifications to ensure your continuous progress.

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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Essential requirements

cooking

Weekend Only Cook post

Company: Bield Housing and Care Salary: from £14.07 an hour Hours: Part-time Location: Cumbernauld, G67 1LF Working pattern: On-site Job type: Permanent Posting date: 5 Nov 2026 Closing date: 19 Nov 2026

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.