Flexible Bank Cook

Casual / flexible work - pick the shifts you want to work

Pay £13.45 per hour plus great benefits

Homeside Lodge, Wallsend

We can't offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

Have you been looking to earn some extra cash, while keeping to your current commitments? Or a job which lets you pick the shifts that you want to work?

As Cook working on our bank, you’ll be responsible for all kitchen duties at our care service. This will include ordering food, menu planning and ensuring all health and safety regulations are maintained. You’ll plan and prepare all meals catering to our diverse customer group, ensuring all meals are nutritional and suit a variety of dietary needs and cultures.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re a living wage employer. That means you’re paid a fair hourly rate. On top of this, you’ll also receive holiday pay.

• Weekly pay, you’ll be paid one week in arrears.

• You’ll get access to our brilliant shopping discount scheme with over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays, and days out.

• When you ready for more hours, or to join us in a permanent role, you have access to apply for all of our roles (even the internal only ones!)

What you’ll do

• Overseeing the management of the kitchen as directed by our Support
  Coordinator and Service Manager.

• Preparing and serving three meals a day to our customers, plus tea and snacks.

• Responsible for ordering supplies, maintaining adequate stocks of food and keeping records of expenditure.

• Responsibility for the overall cleanliness of the kitchen, pantries etc.

• Our customers have a variety of support needs and are all 55 and over

Why join us

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. Come and be part of one of the UK’s Great Places to Work!

You have

• Previous experience in catering work.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to keep calm under pressure.

• An understanding of confidentiality.

• Able to relate to vulnerable people with sensitivity.

• Flexibility to work at short notice, you’ll be the one picking your next shift.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• Flexible working hours

• Able to use technology for updating stock sheets, ordering food and
  supplies, keeping records of expenditure and completing online learning.

• You’ll need a standard DBS check done and we pay for that. 

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Cook Job Description, find out about us, for help to applyandfor all our benefits Roles can close early, so don’t wait.

For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.