Position: Chef
Location: Dorking
Platinum Recruitment is working with an established nursing home in Dorking with a long and well-earned reputation for providing excellent care in homely and comfortable surroundings, they are looking for a chef to join their team.
Why choose our client?
This client is offering a healthy work-life balance, with sociable working hours and alternate weekends, the chefs here get full reins of the menu working with the head chef to create dishes. They want a chef to bring The flair and creativity of their food to the residents.
Rate of pay/Salary: £13.75 to £14.50
What's in it for you?
- Pay from £13.75/hour up to £14.50/hour (depending on qualifications) with an additional uplift of £1.85/hour at weekends.
- Full induction into your role, giving you skills required to deliver meals to restaurant standards
- Fully funded job specific training
- NVQs encouraged and funded
- Access to optional training courses for those wanting to develop their career, many funded
- Pension scheme - contribute 5% to your pension every month
- Fully flexible holiday allowance
- Sick pay, in line with contract
- Free on-site parking
- x2 death in service cover, based on annual salary
- Full support from our professional management team
What's involved?
- To work at all times within the practice taught in the Food Hygiene course.
- To prepare food for appropriate meal as specified by the menu.
- To ensure any food prepared looks pleasant, is tasty and kept hot/cold as needed
- To ensure food waste is kept to a minimum
- To ensure kitchen is tidy and clean at the end of shift
- To ensure safe environment for other staff
- To ensure fridge, freezers and food temperatures are recorded twice a day
- To ensure daily/weekly and monthly cleaning tasks are carried out to a high standard and signed for.
- To ensure the Better Food Better Business is correct and kept up to date.
- To report any problems to the Person-in-Charge as appropriate
- To go into dining room during meal times and ask residents for their feedback on the meals.
- To do ordering to ensure plenty of stock to be able to fulfil the daily menus
- To be aware of residents' nutritional needs and cater for this.
- 35 hour week
- Working a mix of shifts 7.30am-2.30pm and 12.30am-7.30pm
- Alternate weekends
- Serving 33 residents - full capacity is 44
Ideal candidate
- You will have some professional experience as a Cook
- A minimum of an NVQ2 in Professional Cookery (not essential)
- Food hygiene and food allergen training
- DBS certificate - or be willing to apply
Sound like the role for you?
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Job Role: Chef
Job Number: INDHOSP / 928511
Location: Dorking
Platinum Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.