Cook (Part time)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cook to join our Retirement Living Team at James Beattie House in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, with onsite car parking available. The scheme is also near to local bus routes.

This is a part-time role working 24 hours per week on a rota:

• Week 1 = Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
• Week 2 = Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

We’re happy to discuss shift times with candidates at interview stage to accommodate childcare, caring responsibilities or other personal circumstances.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and serving fresh home-cooked meals to customers, around 15 covers per day.
• Providing an excellent service for customers.
• Maintaining and cleaning the kitchen and restaurant area.
• Planning and engaging in themed activities and events for residents.
• Ordering and replenishing food and kitchen supplies, with a focus on staying within budget.
• Populating excel spreadsheets.

Our Ideal Candidate? We are looking for people who:

• Previous cooking/kitchen experience.
• Have a Food Safety Level 2 qualification (if you don’t have this, we will train you on this if you’re successful).
• Are confident in dealing with budgets and stocktaking.
• Are confident in using IT systems (Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook).

Who are Midland Heart? We’re a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome people from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed. Whether you want to build your career with us, or use your experience to move on, we’re here to develop your potential.

What can we offer? We have an excellent range of company benefits available including 25 days annual leave, up to 8% matched pension and access to our Brilliant Benefits portal which will get you discount on a lot of your shopping! To find out more about what is on offer, please click here.

We are proud to say we have recently been named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, within the Big Organisations category (The Times).

Interested? Please click "Candidate Information" below for a full Role Profile. Applying is easy - simply register on our candidate portal and submit a CV and a cover letter explaining how your experience and skills meet the requirements of the role.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.