Head Chef

7 days ago

Bournemouth BH DB, United Kingdom Care South Full time £20,000 - £40,000 per year
About The Role

Head Chef

Pay: £15.50 per hour

Location: Castle Dene, Throop road, Bournemouth, BH8 0DB

Hours: 40 hours over 4 days, to include alternate weekends

Doing long hours in a pub or restaurant? Working in our Care Home kitchen will provide you more sociable hours, your shifts will mostly be daytime and every other weekend.

As a not-for-profit charity within Social Care, we focus on the reward and recognition of all our people, our benefits include:

  • Blue Light Shopping Discount Card
  • Reward and Recognition Schemes
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Industry Based Qualifications

This is an incredibly rewarding role where you can come in and take pride in ensuring nutritious and enjoyable meals are available to all residents at our home.

What you will be doing:

  • Creating, preparing, and cooking meals for our residents
  • Ensuring preparation and presentation is always to a high standard
  • Supervising and supporting our kitchen staff
  • Planning meals - consulting with residents & care staff to ensure that individual dietary needs and preferences are catered for
  • Ensuring all health & safety and other relevant legislation is adhered to
  • Responsible for the management of the catering budget for the home

Who are we looking for:

Someone with a passion for cooking

You will be organised with the ability to meet deadlines. You will have experience working in a kitchen producing attractive and high-quality meals in high volumes.

We're looking for someone with a Certificate in NVQ Level 2 Food Production/ Hygiene (maybe looking to undertake Level 3) You will need an understanding of health and safety and other current relevant legislation.

Confidence to take the lead as well as be a team player.

If this sounds like you then we would love for you to join the team

About Us

PEOPLE | PASSION | PURPOSE

Care South are one of the top 20 rated Care Home Groups in the UK based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends at

As a not-for-profit charity, our HEART values are key to us providing outstanding care. For more information about us, our values and benefits, please visit our website:

For any questions please contact the recruitment team on

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