Chef

NHS Jobs; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a catering leader to oversee hands-on cooking and daily kitchen operations, ensuring all services meet quality, safety and regulatory standards. You will motivate the team to deliver excellent food and service and manage production and portions efficiently.

We support flexible working to promote wellbeing and work-life balance, and value a diverse workforce committed to compassionate patient care across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Lead hands-on cooking and daily kitchen operations.
• Ensure catering services meet quality and safety standards.
• Motivate and support the catering team to deliver outstanding food and service.
• Manage food production and portion control with cost awareness.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene and health & safety legislation.
• Support training and development of staff.
• Collaborate to continually improve catering standards and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day kitchen activities and meal preparation.
• Maintain compliance with health, safety and hygiene regulations.
• Lead staff training and performance development.
• Work with colleagues to enhance catering quality and service levels.

Skills

Hands-on cooking

Catering team leadership

Food safety knowledge

Cost control

Job description

You will take the lead inhands-on cooking, , anddaily kitchen operations, ensuring that all catering services meet the highest standards ofquality, safety, and compliance with food hygiene and health & safety legislation. motivate and support the catering team to deliver outstanding food and service. Manage food production and portion control, ensuring cost-effective use of resources. Ensure all catering operations are fully compliant with current food safety, hygiene, and health & safety legislation. Support team training and development, fostering a positive and professional working environment.Work collaboratively with colleagues to continually improve catering standards and customer satisfaction.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.

We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.