Plas Pengwaith Assistant Cook

Job title:
Plas Pengwaith Assistant Cook

Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being

Service:
Provider Services

Closing date:
16/02/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 30 Hour

Salary:
£16,573 a year

Pay Scale:
GS1

Location(s):
Cartref Plas Pengwaith, Llanberis

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact Lorraine Powell on** 01286 870360 / 871 379**

Interview date to be confirmed.

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, THURSDAY, 16/02/2023.**

**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work**
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**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:

- Hard-working and organised
- To be committed and sensitive with the ability to work in a manner that respects the individual’s rights at all times.
- To be able to work as part of a team

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:

- Basic Food Hygiene
- Training in Health and Safety e.g. moving and handling or first aid

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:

- Experience in preparing simple and tasteful food for a number of people.
- Experience of domestic work
- Understanding the needs of the elderly

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:

- Good cooking skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good communications skills
- Knowledge of the needs of the elderly

**Desirable**:
**Language requirements**:
**Essential**:
**Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level**:
**Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Level**:
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).

**Writing - Intermediate Level**:
**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- To assist with the arrangements and management of the kitchen and deputise on behalf of the Cook when he/she is absent.
- Duties will include preparing food and drink, cooking meals in accordance with the menus, preparing and serving these, washing dishes and general cleaning duties.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Responsibility for staff, finance and equipment linked with the kitchen in the absence of the Cook. To notify the manager or the property section or other agencies of any deficiencies in the kitchen building or equipment linked with the kitchen.

**Main duties**:

- To ensure that service users keep their dignity, independence and rights at all times. An integral part of this is to ensure that users have the opportunity to choose their food every day and have an input into the type of food provided.
- To assist the Cook, and in the absence of the Cook, to ensure that the arrangements and administration of the kitchen are effective and efficient and conform to relevant Health and Safety legislation and the Council’s policies and guidelines.
- To assist the Cook, and in the absence of the Cook, to order, prepare, cook and present nutritious and tasty food for the service users in a clean environment and by conforming to relevant legislation and guidelines.
- To assist the Cook, and in the absence of the Cook, to plan and follow a menu including controlling the size of the meals in accordance with the relevant guidelines and the wishes of the service users.
- To attend training relevant to the post.
- To attend staff meetings.
- To register with the Care Council in accordance with national guidelines.
- To conform to the relevant requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000.
- To agree to any medical examination that is deemed to be in the interests of the employee and/or service.
- Any other tasks which, in the opinion of the Registered Home Manager, are appropriate and in the interests of the users and the service.
- Responsibility for self-development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towa