Chef
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £10 – £11/hour
Oakleaf are currently looking for a Hospital Chef to join our friendly team at our Windsor Care Hospital based near Maidenhead. This is a full time permanent position on a 2 week rota, 7AM-5.30PM 4 days one week and 3 the next, including alternate weekends.
Due to the exciting new expansion of this service, we have some really exciting opportunities opening up. Based across 2 sites Windsor Care is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of specialist mental health hospital services for adults and Nursing care.
This is an excellent opportunity for a chef to join the our friendly team.
Ideally you will have experience of working as a chef in a similar setting. Must have experience of being a chef and able to lead and motivate a team.
The job will involve working days only. Will require alternate weekends.
Excellent opportunity to join a friendly and supportive company that values its staff.
Main function of the job:-
To manage the preparation and all meals of the service.
Main duties of the role:-
· Prioritise workload.
· Help to create and maintain cooking and cleaning regimes (daily, weekly, periodically etc) for all areas of the kitchen in line with the Company’s quality philosophy.
· Help to prepare menus in advance in a regular and varied way.
· To ensure that all meals are prepared and presented to a high standard.
· To ensure that any special dietary meals are prepared.
· To prepare and present food to a high standard and quality.
· To ensure that adequate stock controls are in place.
· To ensure that an inventory of kitchen equipment is updated and managed.
· To ensure that proper quality control systems are adopted for all aspects of the meal preparation management.
· To operate the equipment, food and meal preparation areas within budgets.
· To ensure that food handling, cleanliness, health, safety, risk assessments and that all procedures required within the meal preparation areas operate to the highest possible standards.
· To ensure that the meal preparation areas operate to current and any future legal or regulatory requirement.
· Always maintain client and business confidentiality
Personal Specification:-
· Catering qualification
· Food hygiene certificate
· Previous Head Chef experience
· Team player
· Highly organised
· Knowledge/experience of health and safety legislation
· Knowledge of nutritional needs of service user group
More Information
- Address SL6, Hurley, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
