Care Home Cook

Service Name: The Croft Care Home

Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Salary: £11.44 PH

Hours: 35 Hours PW

Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, enabling them to gain greater independence and improve their well-being? If the answer is yes, read on!

Who are Ambient Support?

Ambient Support, a registered UK charity with over 25 years’ experience in providing care and support services for older people, people with a mental health needs and people with learning disabilities.

Our residential care home, The Croft, is a community-based home for Older People in Amersham. We provide care and support to 60 residents, including up to 31 residents with a higher level of specific dementia care needs. This is a welcoming home from home environment offering regular activities and organised events.

The Role of our Cook:

Are you passionate about cooking? Do you want to play a key role in our service by devising a weekly menu and cooking with our residents? This will encompass meeting all the relevant nutritional and dietary needs of the people we support, then this could be the role for you!

Skills and attributes of our Care Assistant:

• Passion for cooking as well as nutrition
• Understanding of Health and safety regulations including COSHH regulations
• Experience of HACCP risk assessments
• Knowledge on food and hygiene regulations
• Ability to supervise catering staff.
• Basic nutrition knowledge
• Ability to organise a catering environment.
• Capability of working in a position that requires manual handling tasks as a core requirement
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding and awareness of equality & diversity
• Good communication skills in order to relate well to staff as well service users
• Basic written communication skills to leave written instructions and to follow a stock control system
• Basic administrative skills
• Ability to work flexibly, responding to the needs of the service , ensuring that the home has staff cover , 365 days of the year

Becoming part of the Ambient family brings benefits too!

• Flexible working, enabling work-life balance.
• National Living Wage paid regardless of age, including under 25s.
• Training and development
• 'Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme.
• 'Season Ticket’ loan & 'Bike to Work’ scheme.
• Paid holiday with minimum of 28 days holiday, including BH (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Membership of Health Service Discounts scheme
• Free access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Do you want to take your first steps towards a new rewarding career? If the answer is yes, then we’d love to hear from you.

We positively welcome diversity of background, ethnicity, skills, talents, and contributions from everyone.

We are committed to Safeguarding. An Enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post. References will be obtained for all roles.