Cook
Full Time: 28 or 35 Hours per week
Location: Verulam House Care Home, Verulam Road, St Albans, AL3 4DH
Are you passionate about great food and creating a homely dining experience?
We’re looking for a Catering Technician to join our team and lead the kitchen in delivering high-quality, nutritious meals for our residents.
What you'll be doing:
Preparing and serving delicious, well-presented meals, snacks, and baked treats.
Working with residents to understand their preferences, dietary needs, and cultural or medical requirements.
Ensuring mealtimes feel like a restaurant experience, with attention to detail in plating and service.
Maintaining the highest standards of food safety, hygiene, and kitchen cleanliness.
Managing stock, placing food orders, and keeping within budget.
Supporting and mentoring colleagues involved in the meal service.
Experienced in food preparation and passionate about quality.
Knowledge of dietary requirements and willingness to adapt meals for individual needs.
Food Safety Level 3 (or willingness to complete).
Organised, proactive, and a great team player.
Committed to providing a warm, welcoming environment for residents.
We’d like someone who is flexible, who can work alternate weekends.
- An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.
Benefits:
- Great opportunities for career development
- Company pension
- Enhanced pay for overtime and bank holidays
- Comprehensive induction programme
- Ongoing training and development
- Free Chef’s Whites and DBS
How You’ll Make a Difference
You’ll be responsible for our residents’ meal experience and running the nursing home’s kitchen. Leading and supporting a team, you will:
- Designing a varied menu that reflects our residents’ tastes and supports their nutritional needs
- Ensuring mealtimes are always a high-quality experience
- Maintaining the highest food standards
- Supporting, training and directing the kitchen team
- Mentoring and motivating on quality, safety, hygiene and cleanliness standards.
- Assisting the Home Manager in developing and managing the budgetary, human and material resources within the department.
About Us
Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts.
Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.
