Cook

Cook

Hours:

Various available

Location:

Birchlands Nursing Home, Haxby, North Yorkshire YO32 2PH

We are looking for a Cook to assist in the preparation and cooking of food for our residents.
Duties of the cook include:
To assist in the preparation and cooking of food following menus prepared Group Catering Manager
To take personal responsibility in becoming fully aware of Health & Safety at Work Policies in particular Fire Procedures, Control of Infection, COSHH and Lifting and Handling Policies
To supervise and help train junior staff in catering duties.
To train junior staff in all Food Hygiene, Health & Safety and COSHH regulations and ensuring their compliance with the same.
To ensure the correct labelling and storage of food at all times.
To assistant kitchen staff with washing up.
To clean and maintain kitchen appliances, surfaces and floors as per cleaning schedule.
To ensure the kitchen is locked and secure before going off duty.
To attend in-service training for Moving and Handling Infection Control Fire Safety Basic Food Hygiene COSHH
To assist in ensuring the security of all residents and the premises through the observance of security procedures and the challenging of any strangers in the Home.
To ensure all accidents, incidents and complaints are recorded and reported.

Experience of the cook
Previous experience of work within a health care setting is not essential, but may be an advantage, for example experience of a nursing home, hospital or working with clients with disability and/or dementia
Must already have or be willing to work towards NVQ Level 2 in Catering which Morris Care will fully support.
Benefits of the deputy chef
Comprehensive induction programme
Ongoing training and development, the opportunity to build a career
Workplace pension
Enhanced overtime pay
Employee discount scheme
Free DBS
Free Uniform
Free on-site parking
About Us
Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults.

As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents' wellbeing at their hearts.
Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.
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