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Job Title: Cook (Independent Living Retirement facility) Location: Lytham St Annes (Links View) Job Type: Part-time (15 hours per week) Salary: £12.21 per hour Reports To: Chef/Kitchen Manager &amp; Operations Management Job Overview: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Chef to join our team at a residential retirement facility, where nutritious, well-balanced meals are a key part of the high standard of service we provide to our residents. The successful candidate will be passionate about food, committed to hygiene and safety standards, and sensitive to the dietary needs of elderly and vulnerable individuals. Key Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Plan, prepare, and cook meals in accordance with dietary requirements, preferences, and nutritional guidelines.</li> <li>Working under own initiative with the guidance of the Chef/Kitchen Manager and Operations Management.</li> <li>Design weekly menus in collaboration with Chef/Kitchen Manager and Operations Management, ensuring a variety of nutritionally balanced meals and maintaining budgetary control.</li> <li>Ensure food is served on time (service commences at 12:15pm) and at the correct temperature.</li> <li>Cater to specific dietary needs including diabetic-friendly meals, and allergy-aware dishes.</li> <li>Produce for buffets and themed events for special days and functions periodically under guidance from Chef/Manager.</li> <li>Maintain high standards of hygiene and cleanliness in the kitchen at all times (we currently have and wish to maintain our 5-star hygiene rating).</li> <li>Ensure compliance with food safety regulations (e.g., HACCP) and internal policies.</li> <li>Monitor and manage stock levels, portion control, monthly stock takes, ordering supplies as needed in the absence of Chef/Kitchen Manager. Also, minimizing waste/over production when producing dishes at all times.</li> <li>Liaise with Chef/Kitchen Manager and Operations Management to receive feedback and make necessary adjustments to meals.</li> <li>Supervise service assistants or support staff during shifts.</li> <li>Proactive in daily, weekly and monthly cleaning schedules</li> </ul>Requirements: <ul> <li>Proven experience as a chef, preferably in a residential establishment.</li> <li>NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Professional Cookery (or equivalent qualification).</li> <li>Food Hygiene Certificate (Level 2 or higher).</li> <li>Knowledge of dietary requirements for older adults and those with medical conditions.</li> <li>Excellent organizational and time management skills.</li> <li>Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.</li> <li>Compassionate, patient, and respectful approach to elderly people.</li></ul>Desirable: <ul> <li>Experience working with older clientele with varied dietary needs.</li> <li>First Aid training.</li> <li>Familiarity with CQC standards (Care Quality Commission).</li></ul>Working Hours: 6.30am - 2.30pm, 2 days per week including weekend working (including a half hour break). The Employee is also expected to provide holiday and sickness cover as required and must maintain flexibility to support 7-day operational coverage. Ready to Make a Difference? Whether you are an experienced caregiver or new to the field, ICare Group provides training and development opportunities to enhance your skills and expand your career in the healthcare industry. If you are enthusiastic about care and making a positive impact, we would love to hear from you! Visit our careers page at careers.icaregroup.co.uk to apply. Join us at ICare Group and help us make a difference, one visit at a time! Equal Opportunities: ICare Group is an Equal Opportunities employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment that supports and respects all individuals. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, please contact us. Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive suitable applications. If you do not hear back from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. #INDHCW

Part Time Cook - Independent Living Retirement

Creative Support are currently looking for a caring individual to take on our Relief Housing Support Worker role in Fleetwood, Blackpool, providing the highest standards of care to individuals with mental health/complex needs. This opportunity is perfect for someone who is interested in an exciting career in mental health. We are looking for someone who is approachable and warm and able to connect with the individuals we support. Support Worker Duties: <ul> <li>Developing and sustaining warm and trusting relationships with service users,</li> <li>Carrying out general administrative duties,</li> <li>Providing emotional support to service users,</li> <li>Medication oversight,</li> <li>Supporting with daily living tasks, including budgeting and tenancy maintenance,</li> <li>Communicating and building strong relationships with service users' family, support network and involved professionals.</li> </ul>Experience of providing care and support to individuals with mental health needs is essential for this role. The benefits of joining Creative Support as a Relief/Bank staff member is the flexibility to pick shifts to suit you and work in services that are local to you. Vacancy Reference Number: 85262 Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. Application Instructions: In order to apply, please read the job description and then complete the online application form using the links above. You can also download a copy of our application form using the links above. Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address (below) or emailed to <a href="mailto:recruitment@creativesupport.co.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@creativesupport.co.uk</a> to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying. If you require any advice on completing your application form, please call us on 0161 236 0829. Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS

Relief Housing Support Worker

At Park Holidays UK, we recognise that our people are our most valuable asset. Our commitment to investing in employee training and development is reflected in our prestigious Gold Investors in People Award. If you are driven and have a passion for helping people realise their dreams, we want you on our team! Join us today! Job Summary Park Holidays UK is seeking a talented, enthusiastic, and passionate Accommodation Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the standards and operations of our accommodation services, ensuring a high level of cleanliness, safety, and guest satisfaction. This role requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to exceeding guest expectations. As an Accommodation Manager, you will play a crucial role in maintaining our holiday fleet to the highest standards, both during peak season and in preparation for seasonal changes. Job Duties <ul> <li>Prioritise guest satisfaction by always ensuring professional and courteous communication.</li> <li>Assist in pre-season preparations and winter close-down tasks, including setting up and securing accommodations, managing inventory, and completing necessary maintenance tasks.</li> <li>Train, support, and monitor the cleaning team to ensure they meet company standards of cleanliness and safety.</li> <li>Ensure the cleaning team complies with Health &amp; Safety standards and COSHH regulations; obtain relevant risk assessments and method statements from contractors.</li> <li>Manage key handling, inventory management, and the upkeep of safety equipment such as smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.</li> <li>Ensure all accommodations are inspected and meet company standards before guest check-in, and that any maintenance issues are promptly reported and addressed.</li> <li>Oversee the linen process and ensure all housekeeping areas are kept clean, tidy, and well-organised in compliance with Health &amp; Safety regulations.</li> <li>Oversee staffing levels, including recruitment, scheduling, and rota management, to ensure adequate coverage and operational efficiency.</li> <li>Monitor and maintain the cleanliness and condition of all accommodations, ensuring they meet company standards.</li> <li>Greet and communicate with guests professionally and courteously, delivering exceptional guest service.</li> <li>Lead pre-season preparations, including setting up the fleet, managing inventory deliveries, and ensuring all units are guest ready.</li> <li>Oversee winter closedown activities, ensuring all accommodations are properly secured, cleaned, and prepared for the off-season.</li> <li>Manage linen stock levels and the overall linen process to ensure efficient operation.</li> <li>Foster strong communication and collaboration with the Holiday Service team to maintain the highest operational standards for the hire fleet.</li> <li>Ensuring all keys are always safeguarded and accounted for.</li> <li>Clean and maintain holiday homes and communal areas to a high standard, ensuring that all areas are spotless and well-organised.</li></ul>Requirements <ul> <li>Proven experience in a similar role within the hospitality or accommodation sector.</li> <li>Strong leadership and team management skills.</li> <li>Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.</li> <li>Commitment to delivering high standards of guest service.</li> <li>Knowledge of Health &amp; Safety and COSHH regulations.</li> <li>Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.</li> <li>Flexibility to work during peak season and manage off-season preparations.</li> <li>This role is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.</li></ul>We believe that our people are our greatest asset, and we are committed to investing in their training and development. We offer comprehensive training and support to help you succeed in your role and grow your career with us. Benefits At Park Holidays UK, you'll be part of an industry-leading organisation where you'll be challenged, inspired, rewarded, and empowered to grow. We pride ourselves on placing a high value on our team members - it's one of the key things that sets us apart. We'll encourage you to bring your best every day, offering exciting opportunities, meaningful work, a supportive and collaborative environment, and plenty of room for professional development. Employee Benefits at Park Holidays UK include: <ul><li>Generous discount on holidays across our parks</li><li>Discount on all food and beverage items on park</li><li>Free premium eye test voucher</li><li>Access to the Help@hand app offering health, wellbeing, and retail discounts</li><li>Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Discounted gym memberships</li><li>Employee referral scheme</li><li>Sales referral scheme</li><li>Free expert mortgage advice</li><li>Company pension scheme</li></ul>IND1 Location:

Accommodation Manager

We are recruiting a Community Engagement Manager to join our Love to Ride project team and to lead on business &amp; community outreach, engagement and management of the Lancashire project. The key area for growth will be across East Lancashire. So please show if you have knowledge, contacts and an affinity to the East Lancs region. The CEM role The Community Engagement Manager role will work across the Lancashire area to promote and support our flagship year-round programme - Ride 365. This includes Cycle September, the centrepiece of our annual programme in the UK, as well as Winter Wheelers in December, Spring Campaign in March, and Bike Month in May. Each regional project is supported by a local, regional or transport authority client, with funding from central Government departments such as DfT, Public Health or other sources. The Scope of the CEM Role The purpose of this role is to support the successful delivery of our Ride 365 programme, by encouraging business, communities and individuals to take part. An aim of this role is to enable 'new-riders' or 'non-riders' to participate and for this group to be around 20% of all participants. The focus will be on working with the business to encourage new or inexperienced riders to participate. The primary roles and responsibilities of the CEM are to: <ul><li>Encourage businesses of varying types and sizes to register and participate. This will involve: contacting businesses by phone, email and in-person (with both warm and cold leads); giving presentations; meeting with relevant staff &amp; selling the concept of Love to Ride; supporting media activity; distributing marketing materials to bike shops &amp; co-promoters, on cycle paths &amp; on parked bicycles; promotion at local events etc.</li><li>Act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners, developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports.</li><li>Contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the Challenge externally to their local networks.</li><li>There will be a key focus on East Lancashire region. </li><li>Identify suitable 'Champions' within participating businesses, develop effective working relations with them and provide ongoing support so that they can promote Love to Ride internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the programme.</li><li>Provide excellent customer service to all participants and business champions.</li><li>Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the programme, e.g. collection of individual and group case studies.</li><li>Carry out any other duties defined by the Love to Ride Project Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the programme.</li><li>Work alongside the client teams, to deliver a highly effective programme of activity, enabling it to become an ongoing and successful programme, promoting positive change.</li></ul>Love to Ride is the online platform that gets more people riding bikes. Both a web platform and App - people can log trips, set goals, post photos and stories, receive localised and tailored information, win prizes, and take part in our rolling calendar of engaging challenges throughout the year known as Ride 365. By taking part we support individuals, communities and businesses, to cycle more often, more confidently and long-term for transportation. With 15 years of experience in delivering successful cycling behaviour change projects right around the world, we have a solid reputation as a specialist social business creating positive change. As well as encouraging existing riders to ride more often and commute by bike, we also support people returning to or completely new to cycling. We help individuals overcome real and perceived barriers and advocate for local cycling organisations and partners in project areas. We then monitor, measure and report on the outcomes. Check out this animation to learn more about how we achieve actual behaviour change. We believe... We believe that life is much better when we feel happy, healthy, energised and connected to the people and places around us. We believe riding a bike has so many benefits to us individually, to our communities and our world. We know how great it feels to ride and we want more people to experience this feeling too. Our Mission Is to create, maintain and deliver the very best online platform and behaviour change programmes in the world, that are proven to get more people riding bikes more often. The rest will follow. Reporting and working locations As CEM you will report to the Head of Projects at Love to Ride. This role will be home based. Our head office is based at Paintworks, a short hop from the centre of Bristol. Requirements Person Specification As the CEM, you will be a friendly people-person who is excellent at building relationships and capable of representing Love to Ride in a professional manner. An enthusiastic, quality-driven self-starter, you will also have a can-do attitude and a structured approach to your work. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: <ul><li>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills</li><li>Strong organisational skills, with a target-orientated approach</li><li>Dedicated 'make it happen' attitude</li><li>Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels</li><li>Confident to work independently</li><li>A high degree of IT literacy and demonstrated use of online applications and tools</li><li>Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with people in a wide range of business settings, from large public services and corporates to SMEs and local businesses and communities and other local groups and stakeholders</li></ul>Desirable (non-essential) skills: <ul><li>Knowledge of CRM systems ideally Hubspot</li><li>Building a database of contacts </li><li>Reporting capabilities </li><li>History of meeting targets in previous roles </li></ul>Benefits <ul><li>Payment: £125 per day</li><li>Location: Remote working BUT looking for someone based in Lancashire.</li><li>Hours: 3 days a week (flexible hours)</li><li>Contract: 12 months (possible to extend) </li><li>Travel: The role may require fairly extensive travel around Lancashire. There is a budget to facilitate this and where possible we encourage sustainable and active travel. </li><li>Closing date: 05/01/26</li></ul>In Summary If you think you would be a great match for this Community Engagement Manager role, live locally or within the target region and have what it takes to help us deliver a successful and highly engaging local programme, we look forward to hearing from you soon. Everyone who meets the core criteria for this role is welcome to apply. Love to Ride is an equal opportunity employer and we believe there is strength in diversity.

Community Engagement Manager

<ul><li>SHIP_Service_Support_Offier_JD</li></ul>The Role Supporting the work of the supported housing improvement programme (SHIP) multi-disciplinary team. The team are tasked with scrutinising all aspects of supported housing provision to ensure it provides value for money, good quality accommodation and support service. The post holder is responsible for providing a full range of administrative duties: <ul><li>Diary co-ordination</li><li>General administration</li><li>Respond to enquiries</li><li>Minute Taking</li><li>Co-ordination of reports</li><li>Processing payments</li><li>Data input</li></ul>This post is temporary until 31st March 2027. The hours of work for this position are 37 hours per week, working Monday - Friday. This post is based at Morecambe Town Hall. For internal applicants, this role will be considered for a secondment opportunity. The secondment of an employee from another Service can only take place with the agreement of the Manager of the Service the applicant is contracted to. When this role comes to an end, the successful internal applicant will return to their substantive role. Flexible working friendly - we offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and opportunity to work with your team to establish working hours to enable you to maximise your work-life balance. About You You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition. Our Benefits Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from: <ul><li>Generous annual leave allowance</li><li>Local Government Pension Scheme</li><li>A range of employee benefits including discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, the opportunity to purchase extra time off, as well as discounts on days out, activities and retail.</li></ul>Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change. We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community. At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve, and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all. We are a disability confident committed employer. Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to update all applicants individually. If you do not receive a response from us within 2 weeks of the closing date then your application will have unfortunately been unsuccessful in progressing to interview. Interview Date: TBC Salary range <ul><li>£25,185 - £26,403 per year</li></ul>

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