Assistant Cook Frondeg

Reference:
24-27083

Job title:
Assistant Cook Frondeg

Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being

Service:
Learning Disabilities

Closing date:
17/04/2024 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 26 Hour

Salary:
£15,977 - £16,242 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Location(s):
Cartref Frondeg, Caernarfon

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

(This is an advertisement for the post of Cook at Plas Pengwaith Residential Home, Llanberis, in the Adult Health and Wellbeing. 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.)

Pecyn Recriwtio Oedolion S.pdf

**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work **.**

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.
- Assist with the organisation and management of the kitchen and deputise on behalf of the Cook in their absence.
- The duties will include preparing food and drink, cooking meals in accordance with the menus, preparing and catering these, washing dishes and general cleaning duties.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Responsibility for staff, finance and kitchen equipment in the cook's absence. Inform the manager and/or the property section and/or another agency of any defect in the kitchen building or equipment associated with the kitchen

**Main duties**:

- Ensure that service users keep their dignity, independence and rights at all times. An integral part of this is to ensure that the users have an opportunity to choose their food every day and have an input to the type of food provided.
- Support the cook to maintain meetings with Service Users in order to learn and get to know them.
- To have the willingness to learn to prepare meals for individuals with complex needs.
- Committed to supporting cookery activities with service users.
- To collaborate with organising themed evenings.
- Assist the cook and in the absence of the cook, to ensure that the kitchen's organisation and administration is effective and efficient and complies with relevant Health and Safety legislation and the Council's policies and guidance.
- Assist the cook and in the absence of the cook, order, prepare, cook and serve nutritious and tasty food for the service users in a clean environment, in compliance with the relevant guidance.
- Assist the cook and in the absence of the cook, plan and follow a menu and consider nutritional needs.
- Control meal sizes in accordance with the relevant guidelines and the wishes of service users.
- Adhere to cleaning arrangements, and update the schemes.
- Report on any defects in the kitchen, including property matters.
- Support the cook to ensure that the kitchen does not fall below standards.
- Attend and participate in staff meetings.
- Attend relevant training for the post.
- Comply with the relevant requirements; 'Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016'.
- Agree to any medical investigation considered to be of benefit to the worker and/or 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 encour