Cook
Job Description
Job title: Cook
Company: Estuary Housing Association
Job description: Part Time Cook – Leyland Court, Southend-on-Sea
Monday – Friday 9am or 9:30am to 2pm or 2:30pm (25 hours per week)
The Role:
We’re looking for a part time cook to join Leyland Court, a sheltered service for 24 elderly residents in central Southend (free parking is available on site). The key purpose is to plan, prepare and cook a high-quality, nutritious lunchtime meal and dessert to the people who live at Leyland Court.
If you are a positive and enthusiastic person who can develop relationships with our residents and ensure meals are cooked in line with their wishes this could be the role for you. You will have the freedom to create menus through discussion with the residents. The residents enjoy themed dinner days so you can be creative, and they would love to see homemade cakes back on the menu! There is some flexibility on the start and finish time as outlined.
Working in conjunction with the service’s scheme manager, the cook will be responsible for providing nutritious meals for our residents, ensuring that individual choice and dietary requirements are catered for, and an excellent standard of health, safety and cleanliness is always upheld.
The successful candidates will possess previous experience in a cooking or catering role; knowledge Health and Safety and COSHH regulations alongside a food hygiene certificate (or willingness to work towards a certificate) are also essential. Previous experience within a care home/healthcare setting would be desirable. The team are looking for someone who can use a computer e.g. for online training, or to complete an online food order.
We are also looking for someone who can demonstrate good communication skills, the ability to work as part of a team and a commitment to upholding the rights, privacy and dignity of people with disabilities. In return for your commitment, we offer an excellent benefits package, including a cash health plan which supports your everyday wellbeing alongside 31 days holiday (inclusive of bank holiday allowance) an additional day for Birthday leave and our competitive pension scheme.
Please note that there is a need to work on bank holidays.
The closing date for applications is midday on Friday 15th March so if you are looking for a role where you can be creative and help support the people who live at this service please apply below today!
Please note we may close this role early if a suitable applicant is selected so please apply at your earliest opportunity to be considered.
Rewards & Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including an excellent pension scheme, healthcare cash plan, Cyclescheme and season ticket loans. Further to this you can expect generous holiday and paid leave allowances, tailored induction programme and fantastic ongoing training and development opportunities.
Values-Based Recruitment
Estuary has a value-based recruitment policy which means our selection process is aligned with our core values of Respect, One Estuary, Accountable and Responsible.
Safeguarding & Recruitment
Estuary is committed to safeguarding and practices safer recruitment standards and expects all staff to share the commitment to safeguarding children and people with care and support needs.
The successful applicants will be required to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK. Please note that at this time, we’re unable to accept applications from candidates who require visa/work permit sponsorship. We appreciate your understanding and we welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship.
This is post is also subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Estuary is Inclusive
At Estuary, we’re committed to embedding equality and diversity at the heart of our work. We aim to be an inclusive organisation, where individual differences are respected, where staff, people who use services, as well as their families and carers, are treated with dignity and on the basis of their merits, abilities and needs, and where everyone has a fair opportunity to fulfil their potential without suffering discrimination or disadvantage.
We always strive to recruit the person most suited to the job, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Anonymous Shortlisting
To further support our aim to be an inclusive employer, we use specific software to remove all person-identifiable information from CVs, including name and dates of employment/education, also date of birth, age and gender where a candidate has included these details in their CV. Your personal details will only be made available to hiring managers if you are selected for interview.
Estuary is Disability Confident
We’re also a certified Disability Confident Employer, which means we are committed to employing people with disabilities, and that we will:
- Actively seek to attract and recruit people with disabilities
- Provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- Offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy
- Be flexible with our assessment process to ensure applicants with disabilities have the best opportunity to demonstrate their ability to do the job
- Make reasonable adjustments to support people with disabilities as needed.
Accessibility
If you are unable to use the online process to apply, please call us on 0300 3045000 to request an application pack in an alternative format.
Estuary is a Housing Association with a strong and clear regional commitment within Essex. We work very successfully within every district in Essex, the three outer East London Boroughs and in the Suffolk Coastal District.
We currently own and manage over 4600 properties. We are always looking at ways to increase the number of homes we can offer and believe it is important to build communities, not just homes.
We are committed to the provision of good-quality housing, care and support services to meet local needs and to contribute to the development of sustainable communities. Our residents are at the heart of everything we do, their views are important to us in helping shaping future services.
We employ just over 300 people, two thirds of whom work providing care and support to people with learning disabilities. We also have an army of dedicated people behind the scenes providing a variety of services including rent collection, gardening, estate management and working on projects to build new houses.
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Location: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
