Job Introduction
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Hazelwood, Whitchurch
Hours of Work: 30 hours per week available, covering a 7 day rota
Shift Pattern: 07:00am to 15:00pm
Salary: £12.42 per hour
Our new ShireLiving schemes is opening soon in Whitchurch.
The role:
Are you passionate about showcasing your cooking skills? This is a great opportunity for you to prepare nutritious, delicious meals for our ShireLiving residents putting a smile on their faces. Our ShireLiving or supported housing facilities provide people over 55 years old a safe, secure, and caring environment.
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will become a key part of the team to deliver catering services to our residents. We are opening a brand new scheme in Whitchurch, Shropshire with 70 apartments that may be single or double occupied.
Benefits:
In return, we offer you a rewarding opportunity within a supportive team of experienced mentors and peers, ensuring you thrive throughout your career.
- Continuous professional development with training, coaching, and mentoring
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave
- Free onsite parking
- Paid Carer’s leave
- You will have access to our comprehensive training platform
- Access to a number of fantastic rewards including free and discounted tickets to popular destinations
- Employer pension contributions up to 7%
- Access to our discounts and cashback app Rainly from day one
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Long Service Award Scheme
- Access to our Cycle to Work Scheme
What you will be doing:
- Preparing quality food
- Managing kitchen operations
- Tracking inventory
- Ordering supplies
- Cleaning and organising the food preparation area
- Training new kitchen employees on standards and regulations
- Have a friendly approach towards visitors and residents
- Monitoring the kitchen area to ensure sanitation standards are maintained
About you:
- You will be someone who has the ability to create great food, that is well presented, full of flavour, balanced and nutritional
- You will have experience of ordering supplies and carrying out stock takes
- You will be someone who would embrace processes and procedures along with adding in a good measure of your creativity
- You will be open to new ideas and thinking out of the box
About us:
Wrekin Housing Group is part of the Housing Plus Group, a leading provider of homes across a range of tenures to meet identified housing needs and regulated care services to help people live independently.
Our dedicated and diverse colleagues are critical to our success. We value our people and offer them challenging and worthwhile careers, providing a sense of achievement in a vital sector. It is important that we offer opportunities to inspire our people to help us to make a positive difference to our customers’ homes, lives and communities
Our Inclusive Culture:
The Wrekin Housing Group is an inclusive employer committed to supporting all employees. We know that people perform better when they can be themselves, so creating a culture which is inclusive isn’t only the right thing to do, but is crucial to the success of any organisation. All of our employee networks make a positive contribution to how we are able to support all of our staff and includes networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, heritage and culture and our allies’ network.
Next Steps:
To apply for this role, please submit an application.
Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check.
