Cook
Gloucester
Salary: – £14,870.70 per annum (£24,784.50 FTE)
22.5 hours per week (9.30am – 2.00pm Monday – Friday, other working patterns considered)
An opportunity to work with Headway Gloucestershire
Thank you for reading this and we hope that you will be able to apply for the role that we are advertising. We are a small charity in Gloucester and there are 14 of us in total
Introduction:
Headway Cotswold Trust Ltd (Headway Gloucestershire) is a local charity dedicated to improving life after brain injury.
We provide essential services across Gloucestershire for people with acquired brain injuries, their partners, families, friends and carers.
The role:
We have a vacancy for a Cook, to work with us for 22.5 hours per week (between 9.30 and 14.00, although other working patterns will be considered. To produce tasty meals for around 25 people each day.
We offer:
- The opportunity to shape the menu throughout the year and operate your own commercial kitchen.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- This is a permanent role.
- We close between Christmas and New Year and on Bank Holidays.
- The role is Monday to Friday between 9.30 and 14.00.
- We have free parking for the team.
- We do offer a stakeholder pension scheme.
- The opportunity to work with a small team and feel part of an organisation that makes a difference.
- £50.00 towards clothing costs for the role
Our Vision is:
To be recognised as the expert provider of support for people with an acquired brain injury and to continue to campaign to increase knowledge and awareness of the impact of acquired brain injury on individuals and those close to them.
To create an environment where people are ‘back on track in a way that is right for you’ and campaign to ask that people with an acquired brain injury are treated equally in society.
Our values support our ethos and policy, and these are:
- Kindness – we will be kind to ourselves and others.Collaboration – we will work in partnership with all those who use our services and our partners to achieve positive outcomes.
- Empathy – we understand that the lived experience is different for each person and we will do our best to understand and develop an individualised plan.
- Respect – we will treat each other and all those we work with, with respect.
- Person centred – we will ensure that we provide our services in the best way we can, with the individual at the centre of the journey
Please see the job description for further information.
If you’re interested, please click on Apply Now to visit our website and download the job description and an application form.
Closing Date for Applications: 12pm on Friday 3rd July 2026.
Salary: 14,870.70
Hours Per Week: 22.5

