Chef

Location

Gillingham, Kent | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you a creative and friendly Chef with a passion for preparing nutritious and well-balanced meals?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Part time Chef to join our team.

At Langley we believe in equipping our staff to be the best they can be. That means providing excellent support and free training to enable you to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day. We have a great opportunity available for a Chef to join our team based in our care home in Gillingham, Kent on a permanent basis, working 20 hours per week . This may include some weekend working.

The successful candidate will receive an hourly rate of £11.14 as well as other generous benefits which include:

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• SmartHealth – free online GP service 24/7.
• Free onsite meals
• Up to 30 days annual leave increasing with service
• Pension scheme, matched up to 8%
• Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flu vaccine vouchers
• Paid DBS and renewals
• Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
• Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice
• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparing, cooking, and serving well balanced and nutritious food and ensuring that food is stored according to food hygiene legislation
• Promoting high standards and complying with all relevant legislation and regulations
• Carrying out food and fridge temperature checks, and recording as necessary
• Interacting with our service users daily and overseeing service user activities within the kitchen.
• Planning menus in consultation with the manager and service users and ensuring that there are sufficient quantities of stock to enable the meals to be prepared
• Ensure that all areas of the kitchen are kept to a high standard of cleanliness and the cleaning schedule is adhered to.

If you want to join our team as our Chef please apply now as we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 29th March 2024

We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.

A satisfactory enhanced DBS with adults barred list check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.

About LANGLEY

Langley is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.

We're proud to be accredited as an ‘Investors in People: Gold’ employer, which celebrates the way we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic. This is the third time we have been awarded Investors in People’s Gold standard. 

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

ED&I is integral to Langley House Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

DISABILITY CONFIDENT

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.

About The Shrubbery

The Shrubbery is a project that supports 15 clients from age 18 up to 90 with varying needs including mental health and learning difficulties. You would be part of a friendly team of 16 staff who would agree that no 2 days are the same.

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£11.14 per hour