Pilgrims' Friend Society
Cook - Part time
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Cook - Part Time
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We currently have an opportunity for a skilled individual who will support our Catering Team in our residential care home for older people in Whitehaven.
This role is ideal for a candidate who has experience as a cook, who enjoys working in a busy kitchen environment, and is happy to feed over 26 hungry people. This role will also support the Catering Manager.
Our amazing team at Cumbria Emmaus House Care Home provides a loving and caring environment for our residents, whilst maintaining the Christian ethos that is so important to them. The health, well-being, and happiness of our residents are of primary importance to us. See our lovely home here.
Have a watch here of "What it means for us, to work in a Christian Care Home like ours": https://youtu.be/uCa1_BtS34w
Responsibilities:
- Prepare, cook, and serve nutritionally balanced and attractive meals with due regard to preferences and special dietary needs.
- Observe food hygiene regulations.
- Observe all minimum temperature and food hygiene regulations during cooking, reheating, and serving of food.
- Maintain the kitchen and food storage rooms, crockery, cutlery, and utensils in a high state of cleanliness and tidiness.
- Maintain all records when on duty.
- Attend meetings and training activities as required.
- Work as part of a team and be willing to take on any task, within your capabilities, to provide an excellent service to our residents.
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We offer a full induction to the work and also provide other training as required by the post.
For more details, please take a look at the Job Description
About you:
- You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have empathy with them.
- You must enjoy cooking and be able to cook and prepare food to a good standard.
- A basic food hygiene certificate and a food-related qualification would be an advantage but is not essential, as long as you have cooking skills and experience.
- The ideal candidate would be someone with experience of working in a care environment.
Hours:
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- 8.5 hours a week
- 1 day per week 9.00am-5.30pm
- Bank shifts to cover for sickness, absence, and holidays.
Benefits:
- Bank Holiday rate: £15.95 p/h
- Get paid for doing your training!
- Training & development
- Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
- 5.6 weeks holiday including bank holidays
- Paid DBS checks
- Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
- Assigned buddy
- Ongoing support from management
- Flexible working: various working hours
- Team events
- Pension scheme
- Care Friends referral
- Medicash
- Perkbox - including an Employee assistance programme.
- Long-standing service rewards
- Birthday rewards
What our staff say about us:
"It is a friendly and welcoming place to work"
Pilgrims' Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if interested.
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