Flexible Bank Cook / Kitchen Team
Wallsend, Newcastle - Homeside Lodge
Casual / flexible work. Pick the shifts you want to work when our permanent colleagues are not on shift.
Pay £12.00 per hour plus great benefits
Home, a place where you belong
Have you been looking to earn some extra cash, while keeping to your current commitments? Or a job which lets you pick the shifts that you want to work? Now you can! This is an exciting time to join us at Home Group and be part of our brilliant flexible bank.
As a cook working on our bank, you?ll be responsible for all kitchen duties at our Extra Care scheme for 55?s years and over. This will include ordering food, menu planning and ensuring all health and safety regulations are maintained. You?ll plan and prepare all meals catering to our diverse customer group, ensuring all meals are nutritional and suit a variety of dietary needs and cultures.
Typical shift as a Cook
* Overseeing the management of the kitchen as directed by our support coordinator and service manager.
* Preparing and serving three meals a day to our customers, plus tea and snacks. Our customers can choose to eat their meals in their own apartments or in one of our communal dining rooms. Our customers have a variety of support needs including dementia, complex health and learning disabilities.
* Responsible for ordering supplies, maintaining adequate stocks of food and keeping records of expenditure.
* Responsibility for the overall cleanliness of the kitchen, pantries etc.
Fancy going home each day, knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You?ll do that here, working for one of the top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK!
You bring
* Previous experience in catering work.
* Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to keep calm under pressure.
* An understanding of confidentiality.
* Able to work under pressure and be an awesome with organisation skills.
* Able to relate to vulnerable people with sensitivity.
* Flexibility to work at short notice. Choose your days to work around you.
* Qualification in Food Safety (or willing to work towards)
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to?external?candidates for this role.? This remains under regular review.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You?ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!
Job details
* Flexible working hours
* Able to use technology for updating stock sheets, ordering food and supplies, keeping records of expenditure and completing online learning.
* You?ll need a standard DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What?s in it for you?
* We?re a living wage employer. That means you?re paid a fair hourly rate. On top of this, you?ll also receive holiday pay.
* Weekly pay, you?ll be paid one week in arrears.
* You?ll get access to our brilliant shopping discount scheme with over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays, and days out.
* Grow with us. You?ll get access to our excellent learning portal to develop your skills further.
* When you ready for more hours, or to join us in a permanent role, you have access to apply for all of our roles (even the internal only ones!)
* Colleagues really matter to us, that?s why we?re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
* Learn more about?our?benefits?on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our?Cook Job Description, find out about?us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don?t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there?s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.
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