Job title: Cook / Chef
Location: Oaklands/Dimples La, Preston PR3 1UA
Rate Of Pay: £12.50 per hour
Shift Patterns: Full time, Permenant
Information about the Role:
Working as a Cook / Chef at Oaklands your duties will include the following:
- Creating, preparing, and cooking fresh, nutritious and varied meals for our residents including those who may require modified or special diets.
- Ensuring preparation and presentation is always to a high standard.
- planning meals and consulting with residents and care staff to ensure that individual dietary needs and preferences are catered for.
- Some responsibility for ordering, checking in and controlling supplies.
- Working as part of a diverse staff team.
- Opportunities to influence the menu and the dining experience of those within our care. (quarterly review of menus)
- Ensuring that the dining experience is positive.
- Ensuring that the kitchen standards are maintained in line with the Safer Food Better Business requirements.
- To prepare and present food to a high standard and quality.
- To ensure that you work within an agreed budget.
Information about the Service:
Our care is resident focussed with each person we support being catered for individually so that they can lead a happy and fulfilling life doing the things they enjoy and accessing a wide range of activities. With 30 bedrooms our purposely adapted home across 2 floors provides the perfect, safe environment for the people we support. Oaklands supports adults with physical disability, learning disability or
long-term neurological conditions including:
- Physical and neurological conditions
- Spinal cord injuries
- Huntington's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus
- Stroke
- Cerebral palsy
- Acquired brain injuries
- Motor-neurone disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Speech impairment
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Necessary Experience or Qualifications to work as a Cook / Chef:
- The right candidate will have a real passion for Cooking.
- Relevant experience in a similar setting working as a Chef or Cook.
- Ability to work on shift/rota pattern, including some weekends.
- Have the right to the work in the UK.
- Excellent organisation skills.
- Working knowledge of the Safe Food Better Business requirements.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
Oakleaf Recruitment are the In-House Recruitment Team for a growing group of Services and Hospitals across the UK.