Cook

Scotia Heights, Stoke-on-Trent: ST6 4HA
Hours: Full Time – 40 Hours per week
Hourly Rate: £10.45 Per Hour

About Scotia Height’s:

Scotia Heights is a 60 bedded younger persons specialist home. we require forward thinking staff who strive to promote the service users wellbeing and independence at all times, allowing all our service users achieve the best they can for themselves and with your assistance.

Working alongside the Kitchen Manager, you will be part of a small team responsible for ensuring that our service users are provided with appetising and nutritional meets, to meet their dietary requirements.

As a cook, we would expect that you will be:

• Preparing, cooking and serving food
• Ensuring that food is presented well and looks appetising
• Ensuring that food is stored according to food hygiene legislation
• Minimising waste levels and disposing of food in an appropriate manner
• Carrying out food and fridge temperature checks, and recording as necessary
• A team player, able to work as part of a team whilst also having the ability to work on your own initiative
• Interacting with our service users on a daily basis
• Obtaining feedback on food, reporting any compliments, comments or complaints

We’d also expect that you will hold a food hygiene certificate to at least level 3 (intermediate) or be working towards it and have a good understanding of your role in the prevention and control of infection, and promoting good health and safety practices.

Working for Exemplar, you can expect:

• Career progression
• A challenging and rewarding working environment
• Exemplar rewards – online shopping, discounts and vouchers
• Job satisfaction
• 5.6 weeks holiday.
• Exemplar rewards – retail discounts and vouchers.
• Employee assistance program – 24 hour helpline.
• Pension plan.
• Free car parking.
• Free uniform.
• Comprehensive 2 day induction program.
• Opportunity to progress and complete NVQ qualifications.

Exemplar Values
Our Values express what it is like to work in our organisation and our colleagues should make these a part of everything we do:

• Fun
• Integrity
• Responsive
• Success
• Teamwork

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At Exemplar Health Care you will work in an inclusive environment in which we champion diversity. We understand the importance of our workforce representing the communities and populations we serve, providing a work place where you are encouraged to be yourself whilst offering our colleagues and our service users support, care and a place of belonging.

Our Equality , Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging vision statement is to ‘make every day better by creating a fair and inclusive culture where we live our values and celebrate our differences, to provide the best care for our community’.