Location
Braintree, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
About Our Home:
The New Deanery is a 93-bedroom care home set on glorious six-acre grounds, situated in Braintree. The home provides a safe and comfortable ‘home away from home' environment and combines this with high-quality care for its residents, with engaging lifestyle activities.
What you will do:
- To implement and maintain all aspects of the kitchen. For example: menus, hygiene, health and safety, cleaning schedules and waste control, ensuring the kitchen team are trained and supported in all areas.
- The recruitment of the kitchen team promptly and in-line with company policy to ensure adequate staffing levels at all times.
- To supervise and develop all kitchen colleagues to maximise their potential.
- To ensure that colleagues undertake and maintain their mandatory and regulatory training.
- To undertake personal development reviews for all kitchen colleagues in line with company policy.
- To complete monthly audits for the kitchen reporting any findings to the home manager.
- To prepare menus for the residents taking into account the content, balance, colour and nutritional values, in line with agreed budget.
- To consult with residents on a regular basis to ensure that their needs and choices are being met.
- To attend resident/relative meetings.
- To maintain the agreed stock levels of food.
- To implement and maintain an agreed deep cleaning schedule for the kitchen.
- To carry out stock takes at the end of each month.
- To implement four weekly rota.
- To work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and to co-operate in any action necessary to keep within budget.
What we'll do for you!
- Salary from £13 per hour
- ESAS – Salary Advance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Perkbox
- Employee of the Month
- Long term service awards
- Blue Light Card
- Professional Development
- Refer a Friend
Job tags
Salary
£13 per hour
