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United Kingdom, Bridgnorth Employment contract 17.00 GBP / Hour · Job Posted May 27, 2026
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If you’re a talented, experienced chef looking to improve the lives of other people, we can offer you a rewarding career at our Nursing Home. At our Care Home, you will be responsible for running the kitchen and meal experience for our elderly residents. By creating and preparing a varied and nourishing menu, you’ll directly support the wellbeing of our residents and make a genuine difference to their quality of life.

Job Responsibility

  • Running the kitchen and meal experience for elderly residents
  • Designing a varied menu that reflects residents’ tastes and supports 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 General Manager in developing and managing the budgetary, human and material resources

Requirements

  • Recent experience of cooking for large numbers in a commercial setting
  • Previously managed and motivated a catering team
  • Experience of providing food for people with special dietary requirements
  • Flexible, able to work alternate weekends
  • Enhanced DBS check

What we offer

  • 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

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