Cook

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Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Ludlow is seeking a Cook to join its team. The successful candidate will work part-time, providing quality food service in accordance with NHS standards. Responsibilities include preparing meals, maintaining hygiene, and ensuring quality control. Applicants should have substantial cooking experience and relevant qualifications. This permanent role offers flexibility in hours and plays a vital role in the community hospital's operations.

Benefits

Flexible working

Part-time hours

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of cooking in a commercial setting.
• Planning meals and menus, including catering for special diets.
• Preparing food using commercial kitchen equipment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality control during food preparation and cooking.
• Serve meals and manage cash for dining room.
• Maintain good hygiene standards in the catering department.

Skills

Cooking in a commercial setting

Good organizational skills

Ability to lead and motivate staff

Good communication skills

Education

City and Guilds 706 1 and 2 or equivalent

Literacy and numeracy standard to level 1 or equivalent

Job description

Main area Catering Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

25.5 hours per week (Including evening and weekends) Job ref Ludlow Cook

Employer Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Ludlow Town Ludlow Salary £24,465 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/12/2025 23:59

Cook

NHS AfC: Band 2

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Job overview

Please note that this job does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

To work as part of a team to provide a service of food to Ludlow Community Hospital.

Working in accordance with work schedule as required

To produce a high level of quality in the preparation of meals

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring a good standard of quality control during preparations, cooking and despatch of food. This will include documentation of the process in accordance with a safe food system.
• Serving meals and taking of cash for dining room till whenever necessary.
• Responsible for practising good hygiene in regard to all aspects of the working of a catering department and including the maintenance of a good standard of personal hygiene
• Assisting with the washing/drying up at lunch time.
• Ensuring that all freezers/fridges are cleaned and defrosted regularly.
• To complete food orders when required
• Assisting with ward stores order.
• To be responsible for the induction and training of new catering staff and that all training is documented.
• Responsible for taking receipt of goods and putting away in the appropriate area’s
• Accepting and checking delivery of goods as necessary.
• The handling of money and filling in the appropriate form.
• To attend training courses and meetings when required.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Trainning and Qualifications

• City and Guilds 706 1 and 2 or equivalent substantial experience
• Literacy and numeracy standard to level 1 or equivalent

Experience

• Substantial experience of cooking in a commercial setting, to include the following: planning meals and menus, including catering for special diets and allergies preparing food using commercial kitchen equipment storing food correctly supervisory skills

Knowlegde and Skills

• General awareness of safety in the workplace, Be able to follow Instruction and prioritise workload
• Good communicational skills
• Ability to lead and motivate staff
• Good Organisational skillsGeneral awareness of safety in the workplace, Be able to follow Instruction and prioritise workload

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.