Salary
£13.00 per hour
Hours
40 hours per week
Location
The HICA Group has a exciting new opportunity for caring & enthusiastic individual to join our ever growing team as a Cook at one of homes – The Hollies, based in Hessle!
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check. HICA do not offer sponsorship to Non-UK Nationals.
Pay & Hours:
- £13.00 per hour
- 40 hours per week
- Working on a 7 day rota with alternate weekends.
The Role:
- Provide planned meals to a high culinary standard with emphasis on presentation and quality, ensuring nutritional value and the dietetic needs are met.
- Ensures that food is served appropriately, on time and meets all HICA standards.
- Provides day-to-day supervision of all staff employed in the kitchen in the absence of the Chef.
- Ensures a high standard quality of cleanliness throughout the kitchen area, ensure compliance with all Health and Safety and Food Hygiene legislation and thorough implementation of the organisations HACCP system, and all other HICA policies and procedures.
- Receives, checks and stores deliveries in line with the HACCP procedures in the absence of the Chef.
- Responsible for purchasing and ordering within any guidelines given by the organisation.
- Interact with Service Users professionally and respectfully, communicating and completing questionnaires.
- Where necessary be responsible for serving food and beverages to Service Users
Who we are looking for:
- Holds a relevant qualification for this role (or equivalent)
- Previous experience of working in a Kitchen environment.
- Excellent knowledge of individual dietary needs.
- A good understanding of those with challenging behaviours.
- Good communication and organisational skills.
Our rewards and benefits package:
- Paid breaks
- On-the-spot voucher recognition scheme £000s awarded every month
- Techsave loans scheme opened twice a year
- In-house lottery with £0000s to be won every month
- £500 rewards for every friend or family referral
- Cycle to Work scheme and other salary sacrifice benefits
- Retail, supermarket, holiday, entertainment & cinema discounts
- Discounted local & national gym memberships, plus FREE on-demand workouts and classes available to stream in your living room
- Access to low cost saving plans and loans
- Hospital and Death Benefit plans at discounted prices
- Employee assistance programme & access to free counselling
- Free parking
- Access to funded qualifications and internal career progression
About Us:
Nestled in its own beautiful grounds, The Hollies Care Centre is conveniently located within easy walking distance of local shops, a health centre, the library and all the other amenities that Hessle has to offer. At The Hollies Care Centre we put the needs of each individual first. Our staff receive ongoing specialist training in all areas, including dementia care, to ensure that our residents receive the very best care possible.
HICA Group are a ‘Not for Profit’ organisation providing a range of care services to older people and people with learning difficulties both within residential and nursing homes and within the community.