COOK, EDWIN HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM, PERMANENT, 37 HPW, F1-AD1 £22,011 FTE
Are you looking for a role in care where you can really make a difference?
Are you an enthusiastic, compassionate and dynamic individual?
Do you have a passion to cook for people in a care setting?
Framework Housing Association is the lead provider of drug and alcohol treatment within the City of Nottingham and is offering an exciting opportunity to join a team of staff in this Care Quality commission rated GOOD care setting.
Framework is looking to appoint a cook at Edwin House
Edwin House is a 63-bed facility based in Radford. Of these 63 beds, 15 are used for an in-patient detox and 41 beds provide residential accommodation.
The post holder is responsible for delivering high quality and nutritional meals to users of the service. This involves
effective planning of menus and a knowledge of the various dietary and cultural needs of the client group. The
Cook also takes responsibility in ensuring that Food Hygiene standards are adhered to and that Health and Safety
procedures are adhered to at all times in the kitchen. This role also involves supporting some service users in
learning to cook
You must be flexible and able to work on a rota.
37 hours per week.
Duties & Responsibilities
In conjunction with the Head Chef plan menus in order to provide a high standard of nutrition and choice,
ensuring a nutritional balance at all times
Prepare and serve meals in compliance with food hygiene standards and regulations and ensure
crockery, cutlery, kitchen utensils and all kitchen areas are thoroughly cleaned after use.
Ensure all necessary documentation in completed correctly in a timely manner
Complete nutritional assessments for all residents with ongoing reviews
Provide support for service users who are learning to cook in order to gain independence
Why Join Us?
Working for Framework is a great way into social care. We invest in you and encourage career progression – providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
32 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service.
Paid DBS and Update Service.
Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. We warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.
What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.
Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.
98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.
Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.
As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.
As an organisation we do not offer sponsorship for overseas candidates as our roles do not come under the Shortage Occupancy List (SOL) for the scheme. Any non-UK citizen who wishes to apply for a role within Framework would need to be able to provide valid RTW in the UK without the need for support from us.
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