Cook Crocus Fields

Nottingham City Council are looking to appoint a Cook at Crocus Fields short breaks unit for children and young people with disabilities. Crocus Fields offers care to young people who have severe learning disabilities and physical disabilities, many of whom are on the autistic spectrum. The role requires an ability to provide a flexible catering service to meet the needs of service users and staff. The principal duties will include providing meals to meet varied dietary needs of the young people, order and purchase food, menu planning, managing the food budget, offering nutritious and well balanced meal, and complete all the necessary legislative administrative tasks and domestic duties. This post is predominately one where you will be expected to work using your own initiative. You will work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and weekends on a rota basis and undertake any training as required to meet the needs of the home. To apply for this role please ensure that you respond to the following items taken from the person specification of this role in your application

• Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team.
• A considerate and positive approach to working with people of different race, age, culture, gender, sexual orientation and physical/ learning disabilities.
• Able to provide economical nutritious well-presented meals of good quality that meet the nutritional needs of young people, within the resources available.
• Able to cater for special diets relating to culture, health or religion.
• Experience of cooking for similar numbers
• Able to plan a menu to provide for a diverse client group.
- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best. In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
• You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council ., Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference. We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes. We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.