Weekend Chef

Role Overview

We’re searching for a Weekend Cook/Chef to join our friendly and hard-working team at A2Dominion.

As a Weekend Cook/Chef at Beechwood Court, you will be responsible for leading and delivering a first class catering service at the weekends for the retirement housing scheme, which accounts 40 self contained apartments for residents aged 55+.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead our service to prepare & cook meals for our busy restaurant service
• Provide high quality meals catering for our residents and guests – taking responsibility for particular dietary and cultural needs as per resident food profiles
• Complete administrative documentation, recording meals sold and reporting resident feedback to the Chef Manager
• Ensure compliance with hygiene and health and safety legislation/guidelines including the Registered Homes Act 1984
• Take responsibility for own time management, working with colleagues and maintain the standards set by the Catering Manager

As part of your initial training and start to life working with us, we may require you to attend some face to face sessions that will be held on a weekday, we will discuss this further throughout your application.

More About You

We want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives:

• Previous catering and hands on food preparation is essential
• Ideally you will have a Catering/Cooking qualification and/or experience working in a Care and Support environment, or cooking experience for large volumes of people
• Ability to engage with elderly vulnerable customers and their families
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable with completing online training – by no means do you need to be an IT expert, we will support you throughout!

About A2Dominion

We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.

And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

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:

• 25 days’ holiday (Pro rated for Part time, Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Investment in your learning and development

In addition, all permanent 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.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting The Role Requirements

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: [email protected]

We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at [email protected]

A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.