Chef

Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 20,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NEST pension with 5% or 8% match

Enhanced pay after 8pm/weekends

Job summary

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited is recruiting a part-time Chef to join the cafe team at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The successful candidate will work four days a week, 10:00–18:00, preparing high-quality meals and developing menus with seasonal ingredients within an NHS environment.

The role requires advanced food hygiene and HACCP knowledge, strong leadership, and the ability to work under pressure while maintaining excellent customer care and adherence to food safety

Qualifications

• Advanced Food Hygiene Certificate or equivalent.
• Good Knowledge of Food Safety/HACCP.
• Knowledge and understanding of issues and guidance within an NHS environment.
• Menu planning and allergen awareness.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head Chef, preparing high-quality meals, ensuring an exceptional dining experience for our customers.
• Create and develop menus using seasonal ingredients, ensuring dishes are cost effective and nutritious.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to issue instructions in a calm manner.
• Ability to keep calm under pressure.
• You will be pivotal in ensuring full compliance with Food Safety Guidelines.

Skills

Advanced Food Hygiene

Food safety HACCP

NHS environment knowledge

Menu planning

Allergen awareness

Job description

Our people are our greatest strength and through our people we strive to make continuous improvements.

See below for our current list of live job opportunities.

DSFS are looking to recruit the right person into the position of Chef who will join our team on a part time basis, working within Cafe at the Royal, located at the main entrance at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working with food offering shifts 4 days per week, Monday to Thursday, with working hours to start at 10am and finish at 6pm.

Our team is the focal point for patients, visitors and staff in the Hospital. We are looking for someone who is an experienced Chef and will thrive in this role, creating the right environment for our staff and visitors alike.

Key Benefits of the Role:-

Our Pension is a NEST pension. Upon joining you can choose whether to pay 5% or 8% and DSFS will match whichever you choose.

If applicable to your role and contract we will pay enhancements of 40% for any hours worked after 8pm and before 6am on Monday to Friday and for hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Main duties of the job

• Reporting to the Head Chef , preparing high-quality meals, ensuring an exceptional dining experience for our customers,
• Create and develop menus using seasonal ingredients, ensuring dishes are cost effective and nutritious,
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to issue instructions in a calm manner
• Ability to keep calm under pressure
• You will be pivotal in ensuring full compliance where all Food Safety Guidelines and being adhered to.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• Advanced Food Hygiene Certificate
• Good Knowledge of Food Safety/Kitchen Hygiene and HACCP
• Knowledge and understanding of issues and guidance within an NHS environment
• Menu planning and allergen awareness

Experience

• Experience in a similar role or environment
• Able to work on own initiative
• Able to make decisions around menus and ingredients
• Experience within a commercial environment or similar such as retail or catering operation

Skills and knowledge

• Able to manage, motivate and lead a team
• A good communicator, able to converse easily and at all levels
• Enthusiastic and a passion for food
• Excellent customer care skills
• Work well under pressure
• Advanced knowledge of Food Safety Regulations

Personal Attributes

• Team Worker
• Good interpersonal skills
• Focused and calm under pressure

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / [e-mail] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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