Food at Latimer Court Care Home
It is the Head Chef's role to provide and maintain high standards of food and service to those we support. As a team, it is our duty to provide residents with everything they need, which includes meeting all of their dietary requirements, as well providing a well-balanced and varied menu. We achieve this by having all of our produce delivered fresh from local suppliers, and cooking and baking everything ourselves to ensure that residents receive the best quality homemade meals and service to match. Please see below for a flavour of everything we offer:
Jonathan Maine
Hi my name is Jon, and I have worked as a Chef since 2011, particularly in care homes since 2014.
I have qualifications in Professional Cookery and as a Senior Production Chef.
I love working at Latimer Court and getting to know our residents so that I can provide healthy and nutritious meals based around each residents individual like and dislikes.
Dietary requirements
For residents who have difficulties swallowing, we modify the menu of the day so that the dishes are more palatable for them. To support our chefs in producing these dishes, our hospitality team and our Chef Academy organise theory and practical workshops. The chefs work with the chef trainer to prepare tasty, modified meals safely and according to IDDSI frame work. This encourages residents to eat and enjoy their food. All our chefs have been trained in IDDSI food descriptors.
Attracting top chefs
Our chefs are recruited on the basis of an interview with the regional hospitality support team and the manager of the home. Selection also involves a practical element, where potential chefs are asked to cook for and meet a panel of people living in the home. Chefs take their job extremely seriously and the annual Barchester Chef Competition sees our chefs battle it out in regional heats and then at a national final for the accolade of 'Barchester's Chef of the Year'.
