Cook

Ready for a cook role that lets you unleash your creativity? If so, join Spring Wood Lodge as a Cook working alongside a dedicated team.

Become a crucial part of the kitchen team working 37.5 hours a week, crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. Dive into food preparation and elevate your role by providing guidance and training to your peers.

Here’s the exciting part
- the calendar is buzzing with activities, events and special occasions which you’ll also cater for. From World Food Day to festive moments like Christmas and Easter, you get to infuse your own flair and keep things exciting.

It’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and enjoy creating delicious meals. There’s a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly.

Just imaginegreat job satisfaction, home in time for dinner every night and two days off a week. Now that’s a recipe for a balanced work-life combo.

**As a Cook you will be**:

- Maintaining good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures.
- Preparing, planning and cooking meals to a consistently high standard, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.
- Serving service users, staff and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous services manner.
- Preparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets.
- Participating in food costings through effective cost control procedures.
- Adhering to the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ standards and record keeping.
- Adhering strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times.
- Correctly filling of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e. Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules

**To be successful in this role, you'll need**:

- To be 18 years or older
- GCSE or equivalent English
- City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
- Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
- Intermediate Food hygiene (desirable)
- Previous experience in a similar environment
- Previous experience in delivering a service on mass
- Menu planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budget experience

**Where you will be working**:
**Location**: Springwood Lodge, Guiseley, LS20 9PQ
- Situated in the small town of Guiseley on the outskirts of Leeds the service is surrounded by beautiful countryside with easy access to all local amenities.

Facilities include 22 bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms, modern comfortable and homely communal living space with a lawn and walled court yard garden. We have an exercise studio as well as our own hair and beauty salon and all facilities are wheelchair accessible.

Spring Wood Lodge provides:

- 17 bedded Inpatient rehabilitation (Bronte Ward)
- 5 bedded high dependency inpatient rehabilitation (Byron Ward)

**What you will get**:

- Annual salary of £25,500
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - (inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
- Pension contribution to secure your future.
- Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

**About your next employer**:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.