I am currently recruiting for a cook to provide high-quality catering services to staff, patients, and visitors. You will be part of a well-established team preparing quality, freshly cooked food, liaising daily with senior supervisors and managers to ensure a first-class catering service is provided to all patients, staff, and visitors.
Location: Sherborne
Job Type: Temporary
Duration of booking: Expected to be 2 months
Proposed start date: ASAP
Pay Rates: Up to £12.82 per hour PAYE inclusive of holiday pay
Based: Hospital
Minimum Requirements:
* Catering qualifications and experience
* Highly organised with catering experience in a healthcare setting
* Flexible approach to working
Duties will include but are not limited to the following:
* Prepare, cook, and serve conventional meals in accordance with specified recipes and methods.
* Check meals for quality, texture, taste, and appearance, notifying and correcting problems as appropriate.
* Ensure that correct hygiene working methods are observed at all times, with particular attention to the separation of raw and cooked foods.
* Ensure food delivered and received meet with the Department’s policy on standards and quality, by undertaking physical checks and temperature probing of all appropriate foodstuffs.
* Ensure that relevant paperwork is completed timeously, for example, HACCP fridge/freezer temperatures.
* Ensure work patterns and production schedules are observed and that pre-chilling times are kept within the laid down limits, notifying the manager where deviations to accepted limits are experienced.
* Assist with the cleaning of premises and equipment, using the dishwasher where appropriate.
* Adhere to the colour coding policies.
* Assist with the supervision and direction of catering assistants.
* Ensure equipment is kept clean and in good working order, inspecting it on a regular basis.
* Report mechanical and other defects to management timeously.
* Wear the uniform provided and personal protective equipment as specified.
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