Cook - Bank

About the role

We are looking for someone able to provide a high-quality catering service for children, young people, their families, staff, and visitors to Chestnut Tree House, and patients, visitors and staff at St Barnabas House.

You will work to planned menus and children, young people’s and adults individual needs liaising with care staff as required. You will prepare catering requirements for events and meetings as required (buffets, working lunches, etc). Other key responsiblities are laid out in the job description.

Essential criteria

• Experience in all aspects of standard cooking
• Experience in catering for children/young people including special dietary requirements
• Experience in Food Hygiene regulations and controls
• Basic Food Hygiene certificate
• In Head Cook’s absence appropriate menu planning for children/young people’s meals, meetings and functions.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to operate relevant catering equipment
• Able to work on own initiative
• Hold a valid UK driving licence and have use of own car due to location of role

This list is not exhaustive and a full list of essential criteria can be found in the job description.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.