Cook

About Bendrigg Trust

Bendrigg provides residential activity breaks for people of any age or ability at our centre in Old Hutton, Cumbria. With 4000 visitors a year, we make adventure accessible, working together to overcome barriers and transform lives.

The role: Cook

The Catering Department is key to ensuring all visitors feel welcomed and looked after.
The Catering Team serve three meals a day providing a range of homemade and fresh food, with ingredients sourced from local businesses.
We are seeking a positive and caring person to join us, working with our three cooks and Head Cook.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Preparing and serving food, to a high standard, with an understanding of portion control.
• Pro-actively work with the Head Cook, as part of the Catering team to promote healthy eating.
• Work towards the Trusts environmental objectives
• Comply with all health and safety
• Cleaning the kitchen and assisting with stock control

What we are looking for:

You’ll need to be a co-operative and supportive member of the team who can contribute to a positive working environment
• Have a passion for food
• Be reliable and have good timekeeping
• Have an excellent approach to customer care and be happy working in an open kitchen, interacting with Bendrigg’s guests and visitors
• Be able to undertake your role unsupervised, be organised and communicate well
• Able to solve problems and show proactive behaviour

This is a permanent, full-time (0.8FTE considered) position, averaging 5 days per week on a 7-day rota.
Typical shifts are:
07:00 – 15:15 (early shift)
11:00 – 19:15 (late shift)
08:45 – 17:00 (Day shift)

Working at Bendrigg

We understand that everyone is different and try to be as flexible as possible. We are proud to offer a caring and supportive working environment with a number of benefits including:
• Holidays: Staff receive 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays (FTE, part-time pro-rata). (Up to 7 days + 3 Bank holidays required to be taken during the Christmas/New Year shut down period – FTE).
• Meals: meals and refreshments are provided when on-shift for anyone working on-site from our amazing catering team.
• Training: personal and professional development is actively encouraged and rewarded. Staff are provided with opportunities for external training as well as a number of internal training sessions throughout the year.
• Pension: All employees can take advantage of our pension arrangements whereby contributions of 5% from the employee are matched by 5% from Bendrigg Trust.
• Health and Wellbeing cash plan
• Sick pay: company sick pay (inclusive of SSP) starting at one week full pay in the first six months rising to six months full pay after five years of employment
• Maternity & Paternity Pay: Statutory Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Parental leave: We understand that you may need time to settle children into a new school, or you may want to spend more time with a child. Bendrigg offers 18 weeks unpaid leave for each child up to their 18th birthday (maximum of 4 weeks per year).
• Emergency Dependant & Compassionate leave: Up to 5 paid days per year

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, irrespective of gender, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religion or criminal records.

How to apply

If you feel you could belong at Bendrigg then please download the full job description and send your CV and a covering letter detailing how you fit the person specification to vacancies@bendrigg.org.uk

For more information

We also welcome informal enquiries so please do contact our office if you have any questions. All enquiries relating to this post should be made to:

Dave Garman
Facilities Manager
facilities@bendrigg.org.uk
01539 723766