At a Glance
- Tasks: Cook delicious, healthy meals and create a positive dining experience for residents.
- Company: Join Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible hours, career development, and wellness support.
- Other info: Supportive team environment with opportunities for growth and learning.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives through your cooking skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in cooking and a passion for creating nutritious meals.
The predicted salary is between 13.27 - 13.27 £ per hour.
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Position: Cook
Care home: Hylton Grange
Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG
Contract type: 40 hrs per week
Rate: £13.27 per hour
Are you an experienced Cook looking for a new challenge? Join us as our new Cook at Hylton Grange care home in Sunderland. In this role, you'll cook delicious, healthy and nutritious meals for the people we support in our care home. Meal times are an important part of our daily routine, especially for those living in care homes. In this role, you'll ensure that everyone has a positive dining experience, to increase nutritional intake, promote social interaction and build a sense of community. This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.
About Exemplar Health Care: Hylton Grange is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. Hylton Grange supports 30 adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease across three units. As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.
About the role: Our Cooks make delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements. No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- preparing, cooking and serving food
- understanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
- interacting with the people we support to get feedback on meals
- complying with food hygiene standards
- completing relevant checks and maintaining records
- being a great team player, working as part of the wider Catering Team.
You'll put people at the heart of everything you do. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you'll see great rewards. If you haven't worked in the care sector before, we'll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.
About you: Above all, you're someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You're also:
- a cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements
- creative in menu development and food preparation
- an excellent team player
- adaptable and flexible
- someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
We like our Cooks to have a food hygiene certificate and a relevant catering qualification, but these aren't necessary.
What we offer: We offer great rewards and perks including:
- excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- access to wages before payday
- retail and lifestyle reward discounts
- free DBS check
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply: Sound good? We'd love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW.
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