Cook/Chef

Chef

Hours: ?? per week, Monday to Sunday

Location: Aspen Grange Care Home, Coldnailhurst Avenue, Braintree, Essex, CM7 5PY

If you’re a talented, experienced chef looking to improve the lives of other people, we can offer you a rewarding career at Aspen Grange.

At our Care Home, you will be responsible for assisting in running the kitchen and meal experience for our elderly residents.

By creating and preparing a varied and nourishing menu, you’ll directly support the wellbeing of our residents and make a genuine difference to their quality of life.

If you’re looking for a career and not just a job, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Great opportunities for career development.


• Company pension.


• Comprehensive induction programme.


• Ongoing training and development.


• Free Chef’s Whites and DBS.

• You should have recent experience of cooking for large numbers in a commercial setting.


• You must have previously managed and motivated a catering team.


• You’ll have experience of providing food for people with special dietary requirements.


• We’d like someone who is flexible, who can work alternate weekends.


• An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

You’ll be responsible for our residents’ meal experience and running the nursing home’s kitchen. Leading and supporting a team, you will:

• Designing a varied menu that reflects our residents’ tastes and supports their nutritional needs.


• Ensuring mealtimes are always a high\-quality experience.


• Maintaining the highest food standards.


• Supporting, training and directing the kitchen team


• Mentoring and motivating on quality, safety, hygiene and cleanliness standards.


• Assisting the Home Manager in developing and managing the budgetary, human and material resources within the department.

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts.

Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.

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