Vacancy closes: Sunday 9th March 2025 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, therefore please do not wait until the closing date before submitting your application.

Within our Day Opportunities and Rainbow Meals services and our Lunch Club groups, we aim to provide a homemade healthy enjoyable meal. Food is an important part of keeping our service users healthy and physically well.

Part of maintaining a person’s health and wellbeing is to ensure that the person can have an enjoyable nutritious meal. Social eating has been shown to have a positive effect on mental health, wellbeing, and social inclusion. Therefore, we aim to extend opportunities for individual to join in with social eating either at the centre or within the surrounding villages.

The role of the Assistant Chef is a key part of this ambition to enable us to deliver delicious meals to our service users, which are nutritious and meet the client’s dietary requirements.

As well as preparing the meal you will be developing links with our volunteers, aiding, and supporting them to deliver lunch clubs in various areas across South Wrexham.

Alongside our Kitchen Supervisor and Volunteer Coordinator, you will need to be able to build good relationships with our volunteers and support them to carry out the serving of food safely and hygienically.

You will support the kitchen supervisor and management team in developing new ideas and ways we can engage with potential new service users through extending our catering services.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB AND DUTIES

• To prepare, cook and serve food to a high standard for the Day Opportunities, Rainbow Meals and Lunch Clubs clients.
• Be compliant with Food Hygiene procedures and working to ensure we maintain our 5* rating
• Ensure the kitchen and work environment is kept clean and tidy
• Support staff and volunteers to ensure they are following good practice in serving food and complying with Food Hygiene
• Support the management team in putting funding bids together that would allow us to gain additional funding to extend services.
• Cater for events and meetings as required
• Perform ongoing stock taking activities to ensure that the menu can be catered for and waste is minimised.
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OTHER DUTIES

• Carry out additional tasks that may be required from time to time to achieve agreed service outcomes

• Constructively participating in meetings, supervision and other events
• Ensures that duties are undertaken with due regard and compliance with the Data Protection Act and other legislation.
• Maintains confidentially relating to the work of The Rainbow Foundation and our service users

This list is not exhaustive and from time to time you may be required to undertake additional duties.