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Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living.
Do you have the desire to empower and promote independence and an interest in mental health?
Kitchen Supervisor – £21,838 – £22,608 per annum pro rata (Salaries vary depending on experiences)
Hours – 26 hours per week, 10am – 6pm with some flexibility, Monday – Sunday. Working pattern is inclusive of alternate weekends and bank holidays.
Service – Rowan House, Littlemore, Oxford.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Response is looking for an enthusiastic person to join the Rowan House team. Rowan House is home to 25 residents with acute mental health needs. Our roles offer employees variety where every day is different whilst also giving a great sense of pride seeing the positive impact you can have on others. Our clients are with Response to gain skills in living independently, while also focussing on improving their mental health.
Our clients really appreciate the passion from our Support Workers too: “The staff are caring, kind, compassionate and understanding. They support me and care for me and are first class. I am happier now than I have been in years.” Client in Adult Services.
Overall job responsibility:
Provide staple meals for residents.
Work with the support team to engage with residents around their physical health and wellbeing of diet and nutrition.
Oversee the daily running of the in-house catering provided by Apetito including cooking and serving of Apetito meals on a daily basis.
Oversee the daily preparation of lunch and supper meals including meals not provided by Apetito on a daily basis.
Ensure the residents have a person-centred approach with regards to their meal choices and that their dietary needs are taken into consideration when planning menus.
Ensure all infection control measures are adhered to within the kitchen environment and monitoring systems in place.
Ensure all food is stored in accordance with food safety standards and stock rotation is in place while complying with environmental health standards and monitoring relevant systems in place.
Assist management with the menu planning and ordering process for food deliveries.
Support residents who wish to volunteer kitchen duties in accordance with their care plans, risk assessments and food safety guidance.
The Successful Applicant:
Our main priority is to find people who can live our values every day – Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational. We provide excellent training on everything else, but we do ask that you can:
Build relationships and be friendly, respectful, patient and empathetic towards others.
Basic Food Hygiene knowledge.
Previous experience working within a service providing meals to residents or in the community.
Care for others and support them in challenging times. Perhaps you have done this in your personal life for friends or family.
Work calmly and methodically, with organisational, written and verbal skills.
Have respect for difference and diversity.
Use IT, with a basic knowledge of Word and Outlook.
What We Offer:
25 days annual leave pro rata and standard bank and public holidays.
Blue Light card and other discounted shopping
Employee Assistant Plan – with access to free counselling
Cycle to Work Scheme
Enhanced family friendly leave
Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave
£500 refer a friend bonus scheme
Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments
Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app – approved by NHS
Free flu jabs
Free DBS application
You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients
If this Kitchen Supervisor position sounds like the role for you then please apply today! We would love to hear from you! This vacancy closes on 27/10/2023 but may be closed early. To learn more about Response and what we do, please visit our website: .
Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from individuals with a range of neurodivergent thinking styles and from those who might need reasonable adjustments. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. All our roles require an enhanced DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK
