Cook

Sunderland, SR4 0HG

Position: Cook
Care home: Hylton Grange 
Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG
Contract type: 40hrs per week
Rate: £13.27 per hour

Are you an experienced Cook looking for a new challenge? Join us as our new Cook at Hylton Grange care home in Sunderland.

In this role, you’ll cook delicious, healthy and nutritious meals for the people we support in our care home. 

Meal times are an important part of our daily routine, even moreseo for those living in care homes.

In this role, you’ll ensure that everyone has a positive dining experience, to increase nutritional intake, promote social interaction and build a sense of community. 

This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.

About Exemplar Health Care 

Hylton Grange is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. 

Hylton Grange supports 30 adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease across three units. 

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Cooks make delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements. 

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • preparing, cooking and serving food 
  • understanding people’s needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
  • interacting with the people we support to get feedback on meals 
  • complying with food hygiene standards
  • completing relevant checks and maintaining records
  • being a great team player, working as part of the wider Catering Team.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.

Download our job description to read more: 

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/188992798/ 

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

  • a cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements 
  • creative in menu development and food preparation
  • an excellent team player 
  • adaptable and flexible 
  • someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

We like our Cooks to have a food hygiene certificate and a relevant catering qualification, but these aren’t necessary.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

  • excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects 
  • access to wages before payday
  • retail and lifestyle reward discounts
  • free DBS check
  • 24/7 counselling and support
  • Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. 

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod2@exemplarhc.com. 

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. 

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact recruitment@exemplarhc.com.

About Exemplar
Health Care

We're one of the UK's leading providers of nursing care for adults living with complex needs, with more than 60 care homes across England. 

Everything we do is guided by our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

This creates a supportive environment where colleagues can grow and make every day better for the people we support.

Getting to Hylton Grange

Hylton Grange, 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG

Hylton Grange is a five minute drive from the A19.

On the A19, take the A183 exit towards Chester le Street / Sunderland.

  • If you’re travelling north on the A19, take the third exit on the roundabout onto Chester Road/A183.
  • If you’re travelling south on the A19, take the first exit on the roundabout onto Chester Road/A183.

At the first roundabout, take the first exit onto Hylton Road and go through another roundabout. Turn left onto St Luke’s Road. Then, turn right onto Fordfield Road.

Hylton Grange is on the corner of Poole Road and Fordfield Road, opposite Blackie Park.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available along Poole Road and Fordfield Road.

The home’s a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Fordfield Road-Polebrook Road bus stop, which is accessed by bus 10.
  • Fordfield Road bus stop, which is accessed by bus 10.

There’s also a train station in the area.

  • Sunderland – 2.6 miles away (10 minute drive).