Enjoy cooking and making a difference?

We're looking for a Weekend Chef to join our friendly team at Cornerstones, our extra care scheme in Tilehurst. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys preparing quality meals, takes pride in excellent customer service, and wants to play an important role in supporting older residents within a welcoming community.

Working every Saturday and Sunday (08:30am-1:30pm), you'll be responsible for preparing and serving meals for residents and guests, ensuring dietary and cultural requirements are catered for, and maintaining high standards of food hygiene and safety.

An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing and cooking meals for our busy restaurant service.
• Providing high-quality meals for residents, guests and visitors.
• Catering for individual dietary, cultural and nutritional requirements.
• Maintaining high standards of food hygiene, health and safety, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and guidelines, including the Registered Homes Act 1984.
• Completing all required administrative documentation, including recording meals sold and resident feedback, and providing accurate handovers to the Chef Manager.
• Supporting effective service delivery by supervising staff as required, managing your own workload, booking resident meal provision and maintaining the standards set by the Catering Manager.
• Working closely with colleagues to create a welcoming and enjoyable dining experience for residents and guests.

More About You

• Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent) in Maths and English (Grades A*-C / 9-4) desirable
• Previous catering, kitchen or food preparation experience.
• Ability to build positive relationships with older and vulnerable residents and their families.
• Ideally hold a Catering or Cooking qualification and/or have experience within a Care and Support environment, or experience preparing meals for large numbers of people.
• Confident working independently and preparing meals without direct supervision.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with the ability to run an efficient catering service.
• Comfortable using IT systems and completing online training (full support will be provided).
• Able to take ownership of administrative tasks and accurately maintain records using Microsoft Office applications.

Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

* 25days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service

* Upto 8% contributory pension

* Allpermanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family

Inclusion at A2Dominion
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process just contact our Resourcing Team

We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If that’s you, we’d still encourage you to apply or get in touch with us to talk it through.

At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

This vacancy is being managed by Hollie Shepherd. We reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.