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Cook – Temporary Part-Time Role (24 Hours/Week)
Location: South Lanarkshire
Contract: Permanent part-time (24 hours average per week, rolling 2-week rota)
We are seeking an experienced Cook to join our team, helping us create delicious meals while supporting our care services with a caring and skilled approach.
About the Role
The Cook will prepare meals in accordance with the menu while managing kitchen workflow, ensuring adherence to food safety standards and sanitation protocols. This role involves meal planning, ingredient ordering, preparation, and collaborating closely with the catering assistant. Physical mobility and effective multitasking are essential, along with experience handling various ingredients and cooking methods.
You will contribute to a vibrant team that ensures our kitchen operates efficiently and delivers nutritious, high-quality meals to support people in need.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and serve meals under set menu standards, ensuring nutritional value and presentation
- Assist with menu planning and ingredient ordering
- Prep and cook ingredients efficiently while maintaining kitchen cleanliness
- Work collaboratively with the catering assistant to manage operations
- Apply best practices in food safety, sanitation, and storage
- Collaborate on meal planning, pre-post shift duties, and kitchen stock rotation where needed
Conditions
- Hours: 24 average per week across a two-week rolling rota
- Week 1: Monday, Saturday, Sunday (9.30am–6.30pm, 1-hour unpaid break inside)
- Week 2: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (same hours)
- Competitive pay rate: £14.04 per hour
- holiday allowance: Generous paid leave
- ongoing training and development opportunities with **Disclosure Scotland vetting checks$
- Potential extra hours covering shifts for holidays, staff absences, or absenteeism
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Benefits
✔ Opportunity to take on enhanced responsibilities if you thrive in the role ✔ Paid professional certification ✔ Complimentary vetting support from start ✔ Supportive line managers invested in our workforce ✔ Friendly, positive work environment ✔ Publically recognised as a Fair Work First employer ✔ Investors in People Platinum status, reflecting our dedication to people-centred values
Requirements
- Previous professional experience in a kitchen environment (catering, restaurant, or social welfare sector)
- Experience planning, sourcing, and prepping food, plus adequate knife skills
- Commitment to cleanliness, safety, and meticulous housekeeping standards
- Resilience to multitask and meet dynamic demand
- Technical knowledge of meal production times and team co-ordination
- Personal quality of exceptional safety standards and housekeeping
Additionally, you must be able to set aside time to regularly participate in:
- Paid training sessions for induction and optional professional development.
- Occasionally work weekends and evenings (shifts are sympathetic, though student or export contacts aren’t expected).
Directly concerned: A UK-only hiring offer. UK rights to work documentation required prior to initial application (evidence provided on hiring confirmation). No sponsorships, no visa renewals, no agency referrals permitted.
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Organisation Background
We’re Trust Housing, a not-for-profit housing, support and care provider serving over 4,000 households across Scotland. A dedicated national charity (SC036149), we recognise the crucial role confidence enhances independence in later life. Our model is driven by individualised needs, and our committed teams excel guidance and support.
By achieving nationally recognised Investors In People standards, we remain among Scotland’s largest providers of tailored support to older people.
Working with Trust
✈️ Values: Tranquility, respect, and the pursuit of well-being 🌈 Culture: Open company, embracing full diversity and opportunity 🏆 Provider: A Fair Work First employer, proud of our Platinum Chartered Investors In People Status
Closing Date: Noon, Thursday 16th July 2026
Ideal application qualities include your excitement for social care, adaptability, and ambition to be part of a thriving team.
Equal opportunities: We actively promote inclusive recruitment practices.
For your convenience:
- UK nationals/intermers applying on work sponsorships are ineligible to apply. Current work visa holders cannot apply without reasonable flexibility for renewal.
- No agency applications accepted.
- Please study the full job details before sending your application.
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