Rowcroft Hospice
Patient Services Cook

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Rowcroft Hospice, Ella's Gardens, Avenue Road, Torquay, TQ2 5LS
Contract Type: Part Time - Permanent
Salary: £12.99 per hour
Working Hours: 16.5
Job Category: Catering
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Introduction
16.5 hours per week
£12.99 per hour
Permanent
Make your work count! Could you be our next Patient Services Cook? We are looking to recruit as part of our catering team.
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.
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 everchanging environment.
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.
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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
Applications will be shortlisted as and when received and this advert may be withdrawn at any time, so please apply early.
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- Patient Services Cook - Apr 26 - JD.pdf
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