AddressAbout The Role
Horsforth Manor is now open!
The luxury 57 bedroomed care home includes facilities such as an in-house bar, restaurant standard dining rooms, a full beauty salon, and hairdressing room, a cinema, a convenience store, and outdoor terraces on each floor.
The home will offer beautiful gardens, raised planting and gardening areas, and private seating areas for family, friends, and residents to enjoy.
All the bedrooms are designed to be spacious and will all come fully furnished with en-suite and all will include highly finished décor and interiors.
The care home is situated next to Horsforth Hall Park, and local restaurants and pubs are within good walking distance to and from the Care Home.
Yorkare Homes is one of the highest CQC-rated care providers nationally and that same level of care will be provided at Horsforth Care Home.
Yorkare Homes aim for their residents is to enjoy the next chapter of their lives in a safe and luxurious environment, whilst being able to offer a varied and engaging range of social activities. This is achieved by our dedicated care teams, activity co-ordinators and our highly trained chefs.
The Yorkare Homes Group provide luxurious facilities at each of their homes, whether it’s to share a meal or drink in the bar, sing-a-long with the planned live entertainment and musicians, enjoy a pamper session at their hairdressing and beauty salon, watch a film together in the cinema, or simply relax in their beautiful surroundings and gardens.
We are currently recruiting for a Chef.
Previous care home work and catering qualifications are desirable but not essential, support is provided by the Regional Hospitality Manager.
The role of Chef will work under the Head Chef
(This includes some weekend work)
Using fresh ingredients and produce and working with the residents to ensure they are provided with a tasty, safe, nutritious and varied top quality menu.
It is essential that all our staff are;
Flexible, caring and compassionate.
Positive, self-motivated and organised.
Willing to undertake any training necessary to develop skills and competency relevant to the role.
Sensitive to the needs of others.
An active team player and must be able to work on own initiative.
Possess good communication skills with colleagues, residents and visitors.
Overview of Job Description: Chef
- Working alongside the Head Chef, to prepare and cook a balanced, nutritious diet within a controlled hygienic environment, adhering to the menu planner or special requests of the residents.
- Planning, preparing and presenting meals to top restaurant quality
- Ensuring the kitchen is run and equipment maintained to an outstanding level, providing the kind of service the residents expect and deserve.
- To control systems of food allocation to minimise wastage, working with the Head Chef to keep within allocated budgets
- To deputise for the Head Chef when required and provide cover and support.
- To monitor stocks and purchases, thereby allocating the quantities of materials
- To maintain a balanced diet and varied menus.
- To ensure that all kitchen staff clean the kitchen after use, including self and, at the end of each shift, leave the kitchen in a clean and hygienic state
- Ensure that Food Hygiene and Health and Safety standards are met
Person Specification:
- Food Hygiene and Safety qualified
- Good understanding of HACCP
- Experience of a Care Home environment desirable. Confidence to engage with residents to create a varied and appetising menu
- Current knowledge in catering for modified diets and allergy awareness.
- Comfortable working with fresh seasonable produce and good knowledge of nutrition
- A warm, approachable manner and an understanding that the residents’ wellbeing is the top priority.
In return the company will offer you:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Great work-life balance; working days with alternate weekends
- Free enhanced DBS check*
- Free Uniform
- Fully comprehensive training and development support from our in-house trainer
- Bonus for working over Christmas
- Career Progression
- Staff recognition awards
- Rewards App
- Health Scheme
- Working with a fantastic team of friendly, supportive, like-minded individuals
If you are driven by quality and looking to work with in a friendly, outstanding and progressive environment – apply today.
Salary £12.50 ph
Yorkare Homes is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer
Unfortunately Yorkare Homes do not currently have a sponsorship license and therefore cannot support overseas applications
- Subject to completion of successful probation period.
