Cook - Canterbury, United Kingdom - Pilgrims Hospices

Pilgrims Hospices
Pilgrims Hospices
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Canterbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Pilgrims Hospices is looking for a friendly Cook to join our team on a full-time basis, producing fresh meals for patients and staff according to a daily menu at our Canterbury hospice site.


The Role


As a Cook you will work as part of a team to ensure our hospice can consistently cater a 365 day organisation.


Your main responsibilities will include:

  • Producing nutritionally balanced meals for patients, staff and visitors according to a daily menu.
  • Liaising with other professionals in respect of special diets, that might be required for individual patients.
  • Ensuring the required standards of cleanliness and hygiene are maintained at all times.
  • Providing supervision and guidance to Catering Assistants.
  • Deputising for the Head Chef as required.


The post holder must ensure that food preparation is completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a healthcare and catering environment.


Working Arrangements

For more information about this role, please refer to the job description.

Our Benefits


As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.


Our hospices offer:

  • Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside people passionate
  • Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
  • A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
  • Subsidised meals and free onsite parking
  • A good worklife balance and realistic working hours (we do not work splitshifts)
  • Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
  • A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
  • A sense of wellbeing
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice


About You

To be successful in this role you should:

  • Have experience of working in a professional kitchen or similar environment
  • Possess Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and / or relevant catering qualifications
  • Ability to work using own initiative and without supervision
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills

About Us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.


Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families - both in the community and in-patient units.


Our Vision
- "Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life"._

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of
our Visionand our charitable aims.

Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.


To achieve
our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be.

They form
our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:


Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care


Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively


Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service


Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes


How to Apply
To learn more about this Catering Assistant role, please download the full job description document as attached.


Salary:
£23,503.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Free parking
  • Sick pay

Schedule:

  • Day shift

Work Location:
In person
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