Chef

TN United Kingdom; Brighton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Job description

Partridge House is a 38-bed nursing home located in a residential area of Brighton, offering supported living services and nursing care to residents aged 65 and over. Each resident receives personalized care to meet their care requirements. All residents are encouraged to take part in carefully planned activities to boost their cognitive stimulation and physical wellbeing.

Partridge House aims to create a home-from-home feel, ensuring each resident is happy and fulfilled at their new home.

What you will do:

• Implement and maintain all aspects of the kitchen, including menus, hygiene, health and safety, cleaning schedules, and waste control, ensuring the kitchen team is trained and supported in all areas.
• Recruit the kitchen team promptly and in-line with company policy to ensure adequate staffing levels at all times.
• Supervise and develop all kitchen colleagues to maximize their potential.
• Ensure that colleagues undertake and maintain their mandatory and regulatory training.
• Conduct personal development reviews for all kitchen colleagues in line with company policy.
• Complete monthly audits for the kitchen, reporting any findings to the home manager.
• Prepare menus for the residents, considering content, balance, color, and nutritional values, in line with the agreed budget.
• Consult with residents regularly to ensure that their needs and choices are being met.
• Attend resident/relative meetings.
• Maintain the agreed stock levels of food.
• Implement and maintain an agreed deep cleaning schedule for the kitchen.
• Carry out stock takes at the end of each month.
• Implement a four-weekly rota.
• Work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and cooperate in any action necessary to keep within budget.