Hospital Chef
£25,009 per annum
Stockton-on-the-Forest, York
Permanent
37.5 hours per week
Based in the historic city of York, we are looking for a Chef for our 112 bedded Forensic medium secure psychiatric hospital, which cares for both mental illness and learning disability patients, which includes an Autistic Spectrum Disorder service and a female service.
These valies are what we believe in and what you can count on:
Highest level of Quality
Caring Safely
Integrity
Working together
Valuing people
Our Hospital has a reputation for providing high standards of care and treatment to all patients.
Job Role:
Assists with the provision of a catering service within a Priory Group Service with particular emphasis on the planning, preparation, cooking and serving of meals, ensuring all activities and operations comply with operational standards and statutory regulations.
Responsibilities:
- Undertakes the planning, preparation and cooking of meals, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.
- Ensuring operational standards comply with the company's Food Safety policies and guidelines and statutory regulations.
- Takes full shift responsibility for the catering operation (in the absence of the Head Chef).
- Ensures the cost-effective and efficient control of stock including placing orders for food products and the checking/reconciliation of deliveries.
- Monitors and adapts food production ensuring that there is a minimum amount of wasted food.
- Researches, develops and creates varied and interesting menus, which take account of healthy eating guidelines and any dietary requirements of the particular resident group.
- To ensure that wherever possible the people who use the service are provided with variety and choice, with full regard
- for dietary, nutritional and religious requirements, adapting to the changing needs of the people who use the service so
- their diets can be amended accordingly when needed
- Responsible for food safety standards and the standard of kitchen cleaning.
- Experience producing meals for large groups on time and to budget
- Supervises assigned catering staff ensuring their quality of work continues to meet required operational standards including food safety and cleanliness.
Experience:
- Experience within a professional kitchen environment
- Experience producing meals for large groups on time and to budge
Knowledge / Education / Skills
- Numerate, literate and qualified to NVQ2 or equivalent & basic qualification in food hygiene.
- Organises and priorities own workload within established procedures
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to monitor costs and liaise with suppliers
- Good organisation and time management
- Knowledge of specialised diets may be required (Dysphagia, Allergens, etc)
- First class customer service skills
Good written and verbal communication skills, the post holder will be required to direct and instruct a team of catering support staff, as well as discuss new menus with other staff to ensure the well-being of service users
In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits including:
- Competitive benefits package and time off, including enhanced maternity leave
- Extra service annual leave awards
- Career development opportunities
- An employee assistance programme
- Supplemented meals/refreshments when on duty
- Free car parking
- Relocation support
- Payment into the pension scheme
- CPD top up
- Donation to a charity of your choice
- Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting
on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this
vacancy