Job summary

Location: Alice House Hospice Hours: Rota over 7 days (including weekends) | Additional hours occasionally available

Alice House Hospice is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Cook to join our friendly Catering Team

In this rewarding role, you'll help deliver nutritious and delicious meals for our patients while also using your creativity to develop exciting food options for our popular Bistro. Your ideas and flair will help us identify new food trends and create tempting hot and cold dishes, cakes, and pastries all freshly prepared from scratch.

All profits from our Bistro go directly back into supporting the vital work of the Hospice, so your skills will truly make a difference.

Main duties of the job

What were looking for:

Experience in preparing fresh, high-quality food
Creativity and knowledge of current food trends
Ability to work under pressure and as part of a motivated team
Flexibility to work a rota that includes weekends

If you have a passion for food, care about quality, and want your work to have a positive impact, wed love to hear from you

About us

We are dedicated to creating a safe and compliant workplace for our employees and visitors. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a skilled and motivated Cook to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a professional looking to make a meaningful impact while working part-time

Job description

Job responsibilities

The provision of well-presented meals that meet individual dietary requirements, to ensure that patients are effectively catered for at all times.
Working as part of a team on a rota system occasionally it will be necessary to adjust your shift pattern to provide holiday or sickness cover
To have an awareness of the diverse dietary needs of individuals and work toward supplying them with the most appropriate nutrition and portion size
To maintain high standards in food service, ensuring that hygiene conditions are maintained by adhering to kitchen cleaning schedules, and practising COSHH, HACCP systems and risk assessments.
To store all goods in the correct manner, ensuring that stock is checked in, effectively labelled, rotated and secure at all times.
When required be able to place timely cost-effective orders which should be conducive to the menu and the volume of expected traffic/ functions.
The ability to prepare and deliver buffets for internal events.
To ensure that the kitchen complies with all Hospice standards, rules and regulations and Environmental Health legislation at all times.
To ensure that the strict dress code, as laid down by Hospice policy is adhered to at all times, to ensure that hygiene rules are met.
To report any illness of an infectious nature, to enable infection control to be maintained at all times.
To attend appropriate training courses, as required by the line manager to enable more effective job fulfilment.
To be aware of and maintain confidentiality at all times.
To undertake all tasks in accordance with the Law, the Hospice Philosophy, and the Hospice policies on Equality of Opportunity and Collective Responsibility.
To be aware of and maintain safety procedures at all times in relation to the spread of infectious diseases, working under the guidance of the Infection Control Lead Nurse to minimise risks to patients staff and visitors.
Complete all paperwork associated with the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

The ability to work effectively in a team
Understanding of the need to follow food hygiene regulations
The ability to communicate effectively with people under difficult circumstances
A commitment to personal training and development
The ability to prepare basic meals in an effective and timely manner
The ability to work unsupervised
Understanding of equality of opportunity
Understanding of collective responsibility
Qualified to, or willing to undertake NVQ level II in food preparation.
Understanding of collective responsibility, equality and diversity
To have an awareness of budgets, meeting daily targets both sales and expenditure
The ability to handle money
Assist in maintaining own and others health, safety and security.
To work as part of the hospice team to support the implementation of the Hospice Strategy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Alice House Hospice

Address

Alice House

Wells Avenue

Hartlepool

TS24 9DA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://www.alicehousehospice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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