Rowcroft Hospice
Bank Patient Services Cook
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Rowcroft Hospice, Ella's Gardens, Avenue Road, Torquay, TQ2 5LS
Contract Type: Bank
Salary: £12.99 per hour
Job Category: Catering
07/10/2026 - 12 days remaining
Introduction
Variable hours depending on need of service
£12.99 per hour
Bank Agreement
We are looking to recruit into the role of Bank Patient Services Cook as part of our catering team. Within this role you will be available to support our catering team to ensure that we can continue to provide a seamless service to patients.
This role will require you to cook meals to a high standard for our patients within the Inpatient Unit whilst providing a patient centred approach to food offered.
You will also be expected to communicate daily with patients and their relatives as part of your role to ensure we can tailor food to each individual patient’s choice.
If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.
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What You’ll Bring
To be successful in this role you will need to have a patient focused approach to delivering a high standard of food and be able to adapt to patient need in an ever-changing environment.
You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team – to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy, and passion, no two days are ever the same!
What’s in it for you?
You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. And we work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive, and welcoming.
It can be tough. We don’t shy away from that. But you’ll see clearly the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.
Working at Rowcroft Hospice
Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support, and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.
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For more Information
Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.
For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Jackie Rowlands, Patient Services Cook Supervisor, on 01803 210800 or via email at Jackie.Rowlands@rowcrofthospice.org.uk
Alternatively, please contact Michelle Ayling, Inpatient Unit manager, on 01803 210828 or email michelle.ayling@rowcrofthospice.org.uk
Closing date: 11:59pm Wednesday 7th October 2026
Interview Date: To be Confirmed
Attached Documents
Patient Services Cook - Apr 26 - JD.pdf
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