Job Overview
Cook
Employer: Confidential
Location: Sunderland SR2 7TW
Job Type: Part-time or Full-time
Working Hours: Alternate weekends and other shifts throughout the week
Salary & Benefits
Salary: £12.89 per hour
Benefits include:
- On-site parking
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and provide nutritious daily meals for care home residents
- Ensure food purchased is fresh and home cooked
- Prepare, cook and present well-balanced meals and beverages
- Cater for residents’ cultural and dietary needs
- Work with residents to plan menus reflecting their choices and preferences
- Purchase supplies in accordance with planned menus
- Monitor and control supplier services
- Maintain accurate stock control
- Maintain high standards of kitchen hygiene and cleanliness
- Follow the care home’s food hygiene procedures
- Carry out food management and temperature controls
- Complete HACCP documentation in accordance with current food hygiene regulations
- Ensure kitchen equipment is maintained and report any defects
- Work closely with the Home Manager to maintain appropriate catering standards
Requirements
- Reliability is essential
- Ability to work alternate weekends and other shifts throughout the week
- Ability to prepare nutritious, well-balanced meals
- Understanding of food hygiene and safety requirements
- Ability to follow HACCP procedures and maintain accurate documentation
- Ability to meet residents’ dietary and cultural requirements
- Good organisational and food management skills
About The Role
A care home in Sunderland is recruiting a Cook to provide nutritious, fresh and home-cooked meals for its residents.
The position offers both part-time and full-time opportunities, with the successful applicant required to work alternate weekends as well as other shifts throughout the week. Reliability is an important requirement for the role.
The Cook will be responsible for planning menus and preparing well-balanced meals and beverages that reflect residents’ individual choices, preferences, cultural requirements and dietary needs. The role also involves working closely with residents and the Home Manager to ensure catering services meet the required standards.
Food safety and hygiene are key aspects of the position. The successful candidate will maintain kitchen cleanliness, follow care home food hygiene procedures, monitor food temperatures, maintain HACCP documentation and ensure equipment remains in good working order.
The Cook will also be responsible for purchasing supplies according to planned menus, monitoring stock levels and maintaining accurate stock control.
Source
Indeed / Confidential employer
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