Volunteer Cook Bolsover, Chesterfield

10-15 hours a week / Monday to Friday

We’re on the hunt for a Volunteer Cook to join us in our rehabilitation service / ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) service Markham House in Bolsover, Chesterfield This service is a welcoming and friendly environment with a dynamic team that supports a fantastic group of people!

As a cook with us you'll be enhancing the quality of life of the people we support through the preparation and cooking of nutritious, balanced meals. Our Chefs / Cooks are the backbone of the kitchen, ensuring that the people we support are offered balanced, nutritious meals that promote their health and wellbeing. Not only will you be cooking and preparing these meals, but you will also be producing meal plans, ensuring the kitchen is cleaned to a high standard, checking in kitchen deliveries and stock take, working closely alongside other kitchen colleagues and working closely with our colleagues that provide support to help them further enhance the people we support’s independent living skills.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to the lives of others.

We’re interested in our Cooks having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our cooks should have previous experience working in a catering/kitchen environment, experience working in health and social care, experience leading a kitchen team and relevant qualifications and understanding of food hygiene regulations.

Would need to have experience in cooking for a large group of people and experience in food hygiene. To provide nutritious meals for the people we support ensuring food is fresh and within budget. To ensure health, safety and enviroment hygiene standards are achieved.

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

Don't hesitate to apply today and make a real difference to the lives of the people we're supporting!

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.