Head Cook

Role: Head Cook

Location: Malmesbury
Contract: 32 hours per week (including alternate weekends)
Pay Rate: £11.78 per hour

The Abbeyfield Society is a national charity dedicated to alleviating loneliness and isolation among older people by providing companionship in our supported housing accommodations, retirement apartments, and care homes.

This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested in supporting our restaurant, covering staff holidays and sickness. Our restaurant, located within our Independent Living service, offers delicious breakfast options, light lunches, and snacks to our residents, visitors, and the wider local community.

The Role of a Head Cook:

As the Head Cook, you will be responsible for:

• Meal Creation: Designing healthy, balanced meals that cater to the dietary preferences of residents and external customers.
• Community Engagement: Promoting the restaurant within the community by offering meals at low cost and fostering social benefits.
• Supply Management: Ensuring a safe and sufficient supply of catering products by establishing a timely ordering system and maintaining accurate records for audits.
• Stock Control: Implementing effective stock rotation and management to stay within the agreed catering budget.
• Equipment Safety: Ensuring safe and proper use of catering equipment, promptly reporting any defects to management.
• Hygiene Compliance: Adhering to kitchen cleaning procedures and Environmental Health standards, maintaining clean and hygienic kitchen and storage areas.
• COSHH Compliance: Using equipment and products in accordance with COSHH requirements and reviewing assessments regularly.
• Food Safety Records: Participating in and supervising the completion of all relevant food safety records.

About You:

We are looking for a Head Cook who possesses:

• A relevant Certificate in Food Hygiene and a proven track record of cooking varied, healthy meals for large groups regularly. Experience in a café setting is desirable.
• Strong leadership skills to support and develop the kitchen staff team, helping them achieve their best.
• Excellent resource management skills, including advanced planning of staff rotas to ensure continuity of catering service.
• A methodical and highly organized approach to maintain a clean and tidy kitchen with effective stock rotation.

What Abbeyfield Offers:

Abbeyfield values the significant impact you will have on our residents' lives. We are committed to supporting our valued workforce with:

• A great work/life balance and job satisfaction
• Competitive pay rates with opportunities for progression
• Unlimited opportunities to earn £500 through our 'Refer a Colleague' scheme
• A Menopause Friendly accredited workplace
• Childcare vouchers and enhanced holiday entitlement for long service
• A medical cashback scheme for various medical expenses
• Occupational sick pay and eligibility for a Blue Light card with significant savings
• Supportive leadership with amazing learning and career development opportunities

You can find out more about what makes working for Abbeyfield great using the link below:
Rewards and Benefits of Working at Abbeyfield | Careers at Abbeyfield

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please Note: We reserve the right to close posts at any time once we have received sufficient applications. This role requires eligibility to work in the UK, two satisfactory employment references, and a Standard DBS check, the cost of which will be met by Abbeyfield. You may be asked to provide details regarding convictions; failure to disclose convictions may result in an offer of employment being revoked.