Chef

Welfordhc; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 28,000 - GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A quality care home provider is seeking a talented Chef/Cook to join their team at their Mansfield location. In this role, you will create varied and nourishing menus for elderly residents, ensuring high-quality mealtimes and maintaining food standards. Responsibilities include managing the kitchen team and supporting dietary needs. The company offers great opportunities for career development and training, along with enhanced pay for overtime. An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Benefits

Great opportunities for career development

Company pension

Enhanced pay for overtime and bank holidays

Ongoing training and development

Free Chef’s Whites and DBS

Qualifications

• Recent experience of cooking for large numbers in a commercial setting.
• Managed and motivated a catering team.
• Experience providing food for people with special dietary requirements.
• Flexible, able to work alternate weekends.
• An enhanced DBS check is required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for residents’ meal experience and running the nursing home’s kitchen.
• Design a varied menu reflecting residents’ tastes.
• Ensure mealtimes are a high-quality experience.
• Maintain the highest food standards.
• Support, train, and direct the kitchen team.
• Assist the General Manager in budget management.

Skills

Cooking for large numbers

Managing a catering team

Special dietary requirements

Flexible working

Job description

Overview

Hours: 34 hours per week, Monday to Sunday (Alternate Weekends)

Location: Woodleight Nursing Home, Mansfield, Notts, NG19 7AG

If you’re a talented, experienced chef looking to improve the lives of other people, we can offer you a rewarding career at our Nursing Home

At our Care Home, you will be responsible for running the kitchen and meal experience for our elderly residents.

By creating and preparing a varied and nourishing menu, you’ll directly support the wellbeing of our residents and make a genuine difference to their quality of life.

If you’re looking for a career and not just a job, we’d love to hear from you.

• Great opportunities for career development.
• Company pension.
• Enhanced pay for overtime and bank holidays.
• Ongoing training and development.
• Free Chef’s Whites and DBS.

Responsibilities

Who We Are Looking For

• You should have recent experience of cooking for large numbers in a commercial setting.
• You must have previously managed and motivated a catering team.
• You’ll have experience of providing food for people with special dietary requirements.
• We’d like someone who is flexible, who can work alternate weekends.
• An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for our residents’ meal experience and running the nursing home’s kitchen. Leading and supporting a team, you will:

• Designing a varied menu that reflects our residents’ tastes and supports their nutritional needs.
• Ensuring mealtimes are always a high-quality experience.
• Maintaining the highest food standards.
• Supporting, training and directing the kitchen team
• Mentoring and motivating on quality, safety, hygiene and cleanliness standards.
• Assisting the General Manager in developing and managing the budgetary, human and material resources within the department.

About Us

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts.

Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.

Chef/Cook

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom