Cook / Chef - Oakleaf Recruitment : Job Details

Job title: Cook / Chef

Location: Oaklands/Dimples La, Preston PR3 1UA

Rate Of Pay: £12.50 per hour

Shift Patterns: Full time, Permenant

Information about the Role:

Working as a Cook / Chef at Oaklands your duties will include the following:

• Creating, preparing, and cooking fresh, nutritious and varied meals for our residents including those who may require modified or special diets.
• Ensuring preparation and presentation is always to a high standard.
• planning meals and consulting with residents and care staff to ensure that individual dietary needs and preferences are catered for.
• Some responsibility for ordering, checking in and controlling supplies.
• Working as part of a diverse staff team.
• Opportunities to influence the menu and the dining experience of those within our care. (quarterly review of menus)
• Ensuring that the dining experience is positive.
• Ensuring that the kitchen standards are maintained in line with the Safer Food Better Business requirements.
• To prepare and present food to a high standard and quality.
• To ensure that you work within an agreed budget.

Information about the Service:

Our care is resident focussed with each person we support being catered for individually so that they can lead a happy and fulfilling life doing the things they enjoy and accessing a wide range of activities. With 30 bedrooms our purposely adapted home across 2 floors provides the perfect, safe environment for the people we support. Oaklands supports adults with physical disability, learning disability orlong-term neurological conditions including:

• Physical and neurological conditions
• Spinal cord injuries
• Huntington’s disease
• Parkinson’s disease
• Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus
• Stroke
• Cerebral palsy
• Acquired brain injuries
• Motor-neurone disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Speech impairment

Admissions

Necessary Experience or Qualifications to work as a Cook / Chef:

• The right candidate will have a real passion for Cooking.
• Relevant experience in a similar setting working as a Chef or Cook.
• Ability to work on shift/rota pattern, including some weekends.
• Have the right to the work in the UK.
• Excellent organisation skills.
• Working knowledge of the Safe Food Better Business requirements.
• Ability to work well under pressure.

Oakleaf Recruitment are the In-House Recruitment Team for a growing group of Services and Hospitals across the UK.