Cook
Company
Location
West Kirby, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/9/2024
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Description
Job Description
Location: The Dales Care Home, 6-8 Marine Park, West Kirby
We Care Group
We Care Group are a family owned company. Founded on the tradition of healthcare excellence, we bring a combination of the highest quality health care services and experienced, compassionate and dedicated staff to all of our nursing and care homes
We offer a warm, supportive and uplifting environment, where our residents are able to maintain their own individuality and feel at home. We take pride in being both small enough to care and large enough to be able to care. After all, we believe in ‘caring for our loved ones, like they cared for us!’
Job Overview
In your role as a cook, your responsibilities include the preparation, cooking, and service of nourishing and delightful meals for our residents, considering their individual preferences, special dietary requirements, and any necessary modifications. You need to do this in a timely manner.
About You
You will have the ability to treat people with dignity. You will have strong listening and observational skills to understand the unique needs and preferences of individuals. You will also have some awareness of the challenges faced by the people in our care.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits once you join our team;
Responsibilities and Duties of the Job
Working Together
Skills Needed
Hospitality
About The Company
We treat all of our residents as individuals. We care about their unique needs as well as their likes and dislikes, hobbies and past times. We make sure every one of our residents is provided with a completely personalised care plan; giving them dignity, choice and independence in a home from home environment.
Our reputation is built on more than 15 years of experience in care and we work hard to make sure that all of our homes provide a safe, homely and happy setting for residents – we want our homes to be their homes. This also means that all of our 30 homes are completely unique, designed to meet the individual needs of our residents and make the most of the home environment and its surroundings.
Each home has a dedicated team delivering round-the-clock care to meet the varying and often complex needs of our residents. We continually invest in our homes and this, as well as our rigorous quality and safety standards, enables us to ensure our homes meet our exceptionally high standards and deliver the best support and care to residents.
Company Culture
As a family run business, we treat our people like they deserve to be treated; with dignity, compassion and respect. The principles of equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to creating a workplace community where everyone is treated fairly and which is representative of the people that we support.
We work hard to create a caring and welcoming environment for our residents based on our core values of privacy, independence, dignity and choice. We do the same for our people; nurturing their talents and celebrating their uniqueness to create a diverse, inclusive workplace where there are opportunities for everyone to grow and thrive.
We want our people to be themselves; bringing their best self to work so that they can provide the best care. That’s why we have a dedicated training course in equality and inclusion for our teams and operate a fair and open recruitment process. We also offer competitive rates of pay, flexible working hours, free uniforms and a range of benefits.
And we want you to be part of our future, helping us to grow as a family and put our residents and team members at the heart of everything we do.
Desired Criteria
Required Criteria
Contract Typefulltime
Salary£12.50 Hourly
Location: The Dales Care Home, 6-8 Marine Park, West Kirby
We Care Group
We Care Group are a family owned company. Founded on the tradition of healthcare excellence, we bring a combination of the highest quality health care services and experienced, compassionate and dedicated staff to all of our nursing and care homes
We offer a warm, supportive and uplifting environment, where our residents are able to maintain their own individuality and feel at home. We take pride in being both small enough to care and large enough to be able to care. After all, we believe in ‘caring for our loved ones, like they cared for us!’
Job Overview
In your role as a cook, your responsibilities include the preparation, cooking, and service of nourishing and delightful meals for our residents, considering their individual preferences, special dietary requirements, and any necessary modifications. You need to do this in a timely manner.
About You
You will have the ability to treat people with dignity. You will have strong listening and observational skills to understand the unique needs and preferences of individuals. You will also have some awareness of the challenges faced by the people in our care.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits once you join our team;
- Quarterly Bonus (48p per hour)
- DBS costs covered and uniform provided by Employer
- Employer Contributory Pension of 3%
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Blue Light Card Scheme
- Company Events (such as Care Awards)
- Employee Competitions with Love2Shop Vouchers
- Buddy System (£200)
- Employee of the Month (£100)
- Refer a Friend (£150)
- Free Tea/Coffee and Soup/Sandwiches
- Free On-Site Parking
Responsibilities and Duties of the Job
- Creating a varied and nutritional menu in line with dietary needs and preferences
- Training and managing the kitchen team in prepping
- Managing all mandatory paperwork including: adhering to COSHH and HACCP guidelines, company policies and procedures
- Catering for special events or seasonal activities, such as summer fetes, Christmas parties and birthdays (as required)
- Ordering and procuring fresh food and other foodstuff supplies from Preferred Suppliers
- Regularly monitor stock control and to inform the Manager of any discrepancies.
- To ensure proper stock rotation of foodstuffs to minimise wastage, and to dispose of promptly any foodstuff found to be past "sell-by" dates for any reason.
- To prepare nutritional food and beverages to a high standard, taking into account, the content, balance, colour and nutritional values of each meal
- To maintain a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness in the kitchen and food storage areas at all times, in accordance with the appropriate Food Hygiene Regulations
- Ensuring deep cleaning schedules and Rota's are completed appropriately
- To assist in the monitoring and recording of refrigerator, chiller and freezer temperatures in accordance with Environmental Health requirements.
Working Together
- Involve our residents, family, external agencies & colleagues.
- Speak up when things go wrong.
- Understand person-centred care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices.
- Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk-taking.
- Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded.
- Understand human rights and their impact on care delivery.
- Facilitating people to speak up about concerns and acting upon them.
- Striving for quality in everything we do recognise and understanding what quality in care means for people within our homes.
- Being accepting of criticism and focusing on improvement.
- Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge.
- Treating people with kindness.
- Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of employment.
- Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service.
- Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas.
- Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to our residents.
- Improving outcomes for people.
- Ensuring appropriate services are provided for our residents.
Skills Needed
Hospitality
About The Company
We treat all of our residents as individuals. We care about their unique needs as well as their likes and dislikes, hobbies and past times. We make sure every one of our residents is provided with a completely personalised care plan; giving them dignity, choice and independence in a home from home environment.
Our reputation is built on more than 15 years of experience in care and we work hard to make sure that all of our homes provide a safe, homely and happy setting for residents – we want our homes to be their homes. This also means that all of our 30 homes are completely unique, designed to meet the individual needs of our residents and make the most of the home environment and its surroundings.
Each home has a dedicated team delivering round-the-clock care to meet the varying and often complex needs of our residents. We continually invest in our homes and this, as well as our rigorous quality and safety standards, enables us to ensure our homes meet our exceptionally high standards and deliver the best support and care to residents.
Company Culture
As a family run business, we treat our people like they deserve to be treated; with dignity, compassion and respect. The principles of equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to creating a workplace community where everyone is treated fairly and which is representative of the people that we support.
We work hard to create a caring and welcoming environment for our residents based on our core values of privacy, independence, dignity and choice. We do the same for our people; nurturing their talents and celebrating their uniqueness to create a diverse, inclusive workplace where there are opportunities for everyone to grow and thrive.
We want our people to be themselves; bringing their best self to work so that they can provide the best care. That’s why we have a dedicated training course in equality and inclusion for our teams and operate a fair and open recruitment process. We also offer competitive rates of pay, flexible working hours, free uniforms and a range of benefits.
And we want you to be part of our future, helping us to grow as a family and put our residents and team members at the heart of everything we do.
Desired Criteria
Required Criteria
- Right to live and work in the UK
Contract Typefulltime
Salary£12.50 Hourly
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