Weekend Cook/ChefSalary: £6,416.80 – £7,763.80Type: Permanent, Part time, weekends (10 hours per week),working hours 8:30am – 1:30pmLocation: Chimney Court, Tilehurst, Reading, RG30 4EN
Role Overview
We’re searching for a Weekend Cook/Chef to join our friendlyand hard-working team at A2Dominion.
As a Weekend Cook/Chef at Chimney Court, you will beresponsible for leading and delivering a first class catering service at theweekends for the retirement housing scheme, which accounts 57 self containedapartments for residents aged 55+.
Key responsibilities:
– Lead our service to prepare & cook meals for our busy restaurant service– Provide high quality meals catering for our residents and guests – taking responsibility for particular dietary and cultural needs as per resident food profiles– Complete administrative documentation, recording meals sold and reporting resident feedback to the Chef Manager– Ensure compliance with hygiene and health and safety legislation/guidelines including the Registered Homes Act 1984– Take responsibility for own time management, working with colleagues and maintain the standards set by the Catering Manager
As part of your initial training and start to life working with us, we may require you to attend some face to face sessions that will be held on a weekday, we will discuss this further throughout your application.
More about you:
We want you to bring your knowledge and experience to playyour part in improving people’s lives:
– Previous catering and hands on food preparation is essential – Ideally you will have a Catering/Cooking qualification and/or experience working in a Care and Support environment, or cooking experience for large volumes of people– Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families– Excellent verbal and written communication skills– Comfortable with completing online training – by no means do you need to be an IT expert, we will support you throughout!
About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision -providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, weprovide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent,specialist services, as well ashomesfor sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varyinglevels of income. We’re here to provide them all withhomes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.
And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensurethat every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose -delivering more homes and better services for customers.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewardedand have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewardsand discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role,these include:
– 25 days’ holiday (Pro rated for Part time, Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service– Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receivea generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestylebenefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employeeshave access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthlysalary deductions.A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer whichmeans that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: activelylook to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive andaccessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants whomeet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people sodisabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can dothe job, make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promoteequality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit theperson who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people ofall backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations,nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
If you require a reasonable adjustment during therecruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request:resourcing@a2dominion.co.ukWe recognise that some females will only apply for a role ifthey meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d stillencourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitmentteam to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know thatequality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the uniquecontributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feelslike they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recoveryjourney, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. Ifyou possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery andchange initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team….