Patient Services Cook

Job Introduction

Make your work count! Could you be our next Patient Services Cook?

We are looking to recruit into the role of Patient Services Cook as part of our catering team.

This role will require you to cook meals to a high standard for our patients within the Inpatient Unit whilst providing a patient centred approach to food offered. You will also be expected to communicate daily with patients and their relatives as part of your role to ensure we can tailor food to each individual patient’s choice.

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will need to have a patient focused approach to delivering a high standard of food and be able to adapt to patient needs in an everchanging environment.

You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team – to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy and passion, no two days are ever the same!

What’s in it for you? 

You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. And we work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming.  It can be tough. We don’t shy away from that. But you’ll see clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.

For more information

Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Jackie Rowlands, Patient Services Cook Supervisor on 01803 210800 or via email at Jackie.Rowlands@rowcrofthospice.org.uk or alternatively please contact Michelle Ayling, Inpatient Unit manager on 01803 210828 or email michelle.ayling@rowcrofthospice.org.uk

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year.  Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

Take a look here to find out what our team says about working at Rowcroft and the employee benefits on offer.

Interviews for this role will be held week commencing 22nd July 2024.