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1 month ago

Huddersfield, United Kingdom Elysium Healthcare Full time

Are you an experienced Cook who enjoys cooking and wants a better work/life balance? Have evenings to yourself and work 5 days a week without being under heavy pressure or stress, while working with fresh seasonal ingredients.

You’ll be joining a brand-new mental health service, Castleholme Lodge in Huddersfield, which is opening early 2024, where you’ll be preparing and freshly cooking nutritious meals at scale for up to 20 service users, plus staff and visitors – lunch and dinner. This includes catering for individual’s needs and dietary requirements.

There will be activities, events and special occasions throughout the year which you’ll also get to cater for – world food day, Christmas, Easter, family day etc. In other words, plenty of chance to be creative and do something different.  

You will be part of the catering team working 37.5 hours per week, with junior colleagues to set a professional example to, where the kitchen will be run to hotel/restaurant standards. A degree of flexibility is required with the shift patterns to meet the needs of the service, which includes working one weekend in two.

This is a social role where, as well as your catering colleagues, you’ll get to engage with the staff and service users daily as you serve your fresh and delicious dishes.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Preparing and cooking meals to a consistently high standard
  • Catering for special nutritional, dietary and ethnic needs
  • Food ordering and maintaining required food stock levels
  • Keeping the stockholding area hygienic, clear of obstructions, presentable and tidy at all times
  • Compling with the Health and Safety and Welfare Act 1974 and relevant legislation, maintaining a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness throughout the department
  • Keeping up-to-date with departmental COSHH manual and PPE requirement for each food preparation and cleaning task
  • Taking charge of the department and use established procedures to efficiently run and monitor the kitchen
  • Reducing food waste to gain greater value for money
  • Responding to routine enquiries from colleagues and service users
  • Carrying out and complete monthly and annual catering audits

To be a Successful Cook you will need:

  • Basic Food Hygiene
  • GCSE or equivalent in English
  • NVQ 2 or equivalent or Qualified by Experience in Catering
  • Comprehensive level of numeracy
  • Experience and knowledge  menu planning and costing
  • To be able to work efficiently under pressure
  • A Creative flair and a passion for cooking
  • Good communication and organisational skills

What you will get:

  • Annual Salary of up to £28,500
  • The equivalent of 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) - plus your birthday off
  • Free meals and parking
  • Wellbeing support and activities
  • Career development and training
  • Pension contribution
  • Life Assurance
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check 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.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.



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