Hours: 37.5 Salary: £11.44 to £11.44
Overview Of The Role
The role of the Cook/Domestic Assistant is to prepare and serve healthy balanced meals to residents in our homes. You will oversee weekly budgets and shopping lists. On occasion, you will work alongside other staff or residents in the kitchen, ensuring everyone’s safety is paramount. The role of the Domestic Assistant is to undertake a range of cleaning duties to a high standard throughout the home.
Key Duties
* Creating appropriate, exciting and well-balanced menus for residents
* Preparing and serving meals for the home
* Ensuring all special dietary needs are followed
* Familiarising yourself with residents’ allergens
* Preparing food to a high standard
* Maintaining relevant records and controlling stock rotation
* Ensuring the kitchen is always clean and hygienic
* Completing weekly food shops whilst managing the budget and adhering to all safety standards
* Setting a professional example with all working methods, procedures, personal presentation, timekeeping and hygiene
* Maintaining health and safety at work practices at all times
* Maintaining a high standard of cleanliness throughout the home, especially within the kitchen and storage areas
* Ensuring all work surfaces and floor areas are clean and managed
* Hoovering, washing, polishing etc. in all areas, including the residents' bedrooms, bathrooms, and communal areas
* Identifying future regular cleaning and maintenance needs
* Identifying future resources and equipment needed for the home
* Operating within all Company policies and procedures
* Demonstrating our values
* Getting to know the people we support and enabling them to live a safe, happy and fulfilling life through developing open, honest and considerate relationships
Personal Attributes
* Organised and willing to learn
* Committed and enthusiastic approach
* The ability to maintain the required quality and service standards set
* A can-do attitude
* Satisfactory written and verbal communication skills
What are the benefits?
* Holiday entitlement - starting from 28 days inclusive of Bank Holidays
* Sick pay entitlement
* Employee Assistance Programme - comprehensive health and wellbeing support for staff
* Refer a friend scheme - enjoy a payment of £500 when you recruit a friend to Choice Care
* Choiceversary - staff receive vouchers of £75 after 5 years, £100 after 10 years and £150 after 15 years to celebrate their commitment to Choice Care
* Christmas bonus - vouchers for all staff members
* Life insurance
* Annual staff awards - this year each winner received £400 and we had over 30 winners in total
* Complex in-house training - this includes our Advanced Management Development Programme for managers in the making and our Foundation Management Development Programme for rising stars
* A paid day off on your birthday
* Free monthly prize draw - all frontline care colleagues are automatically entered into a monthly prize draw. Three winners, selected at random, receive £500 each, tax-free
* Blue Light Card eligibility
* Reclaim prescription costs for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and access free feminine hygiene products whilst on shift
* Wagestream - a financial health app that enables you to track your earnings, save a small amount automatically each month, receive optional pay advances, purchase vouchers for discounts with retailers, and get access to financial support and education
* Minimum service periods applicable to some benefits
Who are we?
Choice Care is one of the UK’s leading residential care providers for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions. With over 30 years’ experience, we’re at the forefront of national best practice, with among the highest CQC ratings of any comparable organisation. Our homes are more than just a place to live; they’re like a second family for everyone we support. Each home is a close-knit community, with its own unique personality, and all the ups and downs of typical family life, built on trust and the promise of unconditional care.
Where will you work? Appletrees is a large, detached country house supporting up to eight men and women with moderate to severe learning disabilities and associated complex needs. The property is set in beautiful open countryside in the village of Upper Bucklebury, six miles from Newbury town centre. Appletrees has a lively and active environment with a real can-do spirit.
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