Cook Longridge Hall Care Home

Cook. Longridge Hall Care Home

• £14.96 per hour
• 30 hours per week
• 3 4 shifts per week
• Shift pattern 8am 5pm including weekends and bank holidays

Come and join us at Longridge Hall our friendly residential care home based in Longridge. Here at Longridge Hall we support our residents to make this truly their home whether they want a reminiscence lounge a chapel or even an indoor sensory garden! Our dedicated Care Home Manager Tracey has worked here for more than 10 years and is truly emotionally invested in making our home a lovely place to both live and work.

We are currently looking to hire compassionate and dedicated individuals to support the Home Manager in providing exceptional personcentered care to the residents of the Home ensuring a warm happy and homely environment is maintained at all times and supporting each of the residents to remain as active and independent as possible within the constraints of their condition.

As a cook at our home your role may involve:

• Delivering the highest possible culinary standards to residents by providing nutritious wellbalanced and appetising meals from a clean safe and hygienic environment
• Supporting with controlling the catering budget
• Submitting food orders
• Managing/supporting with all the day to day aspects of the catering operation
• Compliance with quality and safety standards
• This role sits below the 2nd Chef and Head Chef

Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits:

• Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
• Discounts on the high street* with retailers like Asda Costa and Argos
• ReferaFriend and get a £250 bonus
• Flexible pay* choose when you are paid and management tips too
• Free wellbeing programme helping you look after your physical and mental health
• Employee recognition scheme we recognise and reward great work
• Pension scheme helping you plan for your retirement
• Inhouse training ongoing facetoface training tailored to you
• Career opportunities The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role

*Overtime is paid for working over fulltime hours. Free meals are given if working over an 8 hour shift and are subject to terms and conditions. Discounts are accessed using our ‘Reward Me’ app. Flexible pay is available via ‘WAGESTREAM’.

What are we looking for

• Previous experience working in a busy kitchen environment.
• A passion for producing fresh home cooked food from scratch to the highest standards.
• Recipe costing skills and food budgeting experience.
• Friendly and enthusiastic disposition ability to integrate well with others.
• Good organisational skills ability to prioritise workloads.
• Food Hygiene Level 2 or willing to undertake

Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates LGBTQ as well as nonbinary candidates and those with experience of mental health.