About Our Home: Partridge House is a 38-bed nursing home located in a residential area of Brighton, offering supported living services and nursing care to residents aged 65 and over. Each resident receives personalized care to meet their care requirements. All residents are encouraged to take part in carefully planned activities to boost their cognitive stimulation and physical wellbeing. Partridge House aims to create a home-from-home feel, ensuring each resident is happy and fulfilled at their new home. What you will do: - To implement and maintain all aspects of the kitchen. For example: menus, hygiene, health and safety, cleaning schedules and waste control, ensuring the kitchen team are trained and supported in all areas. - The recruitment of the kitchen team promptly and in-line with company policy to ensure adequate staffing levels at all times. - To supervise and develop all kitchen colleagues to maximise their potential. - To ensure that colleagues undertake and maintain their mandatory and regulatory training. - To undertake personal development reviews for all kitchen colleagues in line with company policy. - To complete monthly audits for the kitchen reporting any findings to the home manager. - To prepare menus for the residents taking into account the content, balance, colour and nutritional values, in line with agreed budget. - To consult with residents on a regular basis to ensure that their needs and choices are being met. - To attend resident/relative meetings. - To maintain the agreed stock levels of food. - To implement and maintain an agreed deep cleaning schedule for the kitchen. - To carry out stock takes at the end of each month. - To implement four weekly rota. - To work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and to co-operate in any action necessary to keep within budget. Benefits: - Salary £13.40 per hour - ESAS - Salary Advance - Employee Assistance Programme - Perkbox - Employee of the Month - Long term service awards - Blue Light Card - Professional Development - Refer a Friend