Cook

Silverways Nursing Home located in Highlcliffe offers nursing, residential, respite and pallative care and are looking for a cook to join their kitchen team to work 32 hours per week.

**Role Details**

**Job Title**:
Cook

**Reports to**:
Head Chef

**Job Overview: (Note - In addition to these functions, employees are required to carry out such duties as may reasonably be required)**
- Prepare menus and agree them with the service users and the manager, including any service user preferences, special diets and specific foods as needed
- Prepare and serve all meals in a timely manner

**Location**:
The service’s premises, but you may be required to work from other locations at the discretion of the company and with appropriate notice.

**Working Hours**:
5 days over a 7-day period, as agreed with manager.

**Responsibilities and Duties of the Job**

**Role-specific Duties**:
The Cook’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Under the supervision of the Head Chef, order enough supplies for the catering operation from specified suppliers using company procedures.
- Ensure supplied equipment is used with care, in accordance with suppliers’ instructions and training
- Ensure all equipment is in good working order and report any faults immediately. If any machine is felt to be dangerous, withdraw it from service immediately
- Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of those individuals the service supports

**Personal and Professional Development**:

- Seek opportunities for personal and professional growth
- Take responsibility for own professional development through performance and development reviews and undertake any relevant training

**Person Specification**
- **The selections for essential and desirable have been left intentionally blank for you to determine these.**_

**Specific Requirement for Qualifications**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

NVQ Level 2

City and Guilds

Yes

Qualifications in texture modified food

Yes

Qualifications in serving moulded food

Yes

**Specific Requirement for Skills**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

**Proficient Writing Skills**

Ensure accurate, legible records are kept

Yes

Ensure compliance with statutory and company requirements on food hygiene, storage and temperature control

Yes

**Budgetary Skills**

Manage waste effectively

Yes

**Communication Skills**

Regularly seek feedback from people and plan changes according to feedback

Yes

Attend regular meetings to stay informed of expectations and views

Yes

**Knowledge**

Knowledge of texture modified diets

Yes

**Specific Requirement for Skills**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

**Disposition/Personal Attributes**

**Specific Requirement for Previous Experience**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

Previous experience of working in a similar environment

Yes

Experience with texture modified diets

Yes

Experience of working with service users who have additional support needs

Yes

**Specific Requirement for Immunisations/Vaccinations**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

**Values-based Personal Qualities**

**Area**

**Specific Requirement**

**Working Together**
- Involve service users, families, external agencies and colleagues
- Speak up when things go wrong

**Respect and Dignity**
- Understand person-centred care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices
- Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk taking

**Everybody Counts**
- Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded
- Understand human rights and impact on care delivery
- Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting upon them

**Commitment to Quality of Care**
- Striving for quality in everything we do recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people using the services
- Being accepting about criticism and focusing on improvement
- Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge

**Compassion**
- 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

**Improving Lives**
- Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas
- Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to people using the service
- Improving outcomes for people
- Ensuring appropriate services are provided for people using the services

**Company Values**
- **Providing quality housing, support and care to older and vulnerable people.**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.46-£13.75 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Highcliffe, BH23 4LJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Chef: 1 year (prefer