Head Cook

Job description

Job responsibilities

Cygnet Healthcare are looking for confident Head Cookwhos passionate about food and wants to make a difference our New Service Cygnet Hospital Oldbury opening in Summer 2024.

At Cygnet Hospital Oldbury you will be working 42 hours per week.

Cygnet Hospital Oldbury is our new state-of-the-art PICU & Acute hospital for women, in the West Midlands. The service will be opening in mid-2024.

The service will feature two wards. A 12 bed PICU ward and a 15 bed Acute ward. Cygnet Hospital Oldbury will have a full multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and will support the acute needs of adults requiring rapid access to mental health services, including those who may need an intensive care environment.

Youre day-to-day at Cygnet Hospital Oldbury:

• Prepare, cook & serve nutritional, balanced and appetising meals
• Provide special diets, taking into account individual preferences & needs
• Liaise with nursing colleagues to meet patients nutritional & dietary needs
• Maintain the cleanliness of the kitchen, service areas & dining room
• Assist with planning and scheduling of shifts
• Ensure compliance with health & safety standards and Food Hygiene Regulations
• Handle, maintain & store kitchen equipment in accordance with Cygnet procedures
• Use chemicals in line with Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations
• Assist in the completion of team member evaluations/supervisions.
• Ensure SFBB paperwork is complete and up to date.

You are...

• Experienced working as either a Head Chef or Head Cook or an Cook looking to progress further to a Head Cook role (Essential)
• Preferably experienced in the care sector (Desirable)
• Create and Plan weekly meal schedules working within budgets (Essential)
• Food Hygiene Certificate (Essential)
• Polite & professional, with a positive attitude to internal & external guests at all times (Essential)
• An excellent communicator able to liaise with all staff members including Service Managers and Service Users. (Essential)
• Able to work under your own initiative and as part of a team with a history of delegating tasks to ensure completion on time (Essential)

Why Cygnet? Well offer you

• Employee Discount Scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Company paid Life Assurance scheme
• Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health checks
• Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to work scheme & employee discount saving

Click Apply or alternatively email you CV to jamescooper1@cygnethealth.co.uk

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

• Please refer to job description above

Desirable

• Please refer to job description above

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Cygnet Health Care

Address

Oldbury

B68 9AG

Employer's website

https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)