Chef - Bank

Integrated Care System; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Bank Chef, where you’ll work with fresh seasonal food in a balanced role offering better work-life balance. Collaborate with the Head Chef to craft tailored menus and ensure hospitality excellence while enjoying career growth and a positive work environment.

Benefits

Work life balance with days off

Free learning and development

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Participation in Barchester Hospitality Awards

Unlimited access to Refer a Friend bonus

Qualifications

• Must be approachable and interested in resident wellbeing.
• Experience leading and inspiring a team is necessary.
• Good understanding of nutrition and ability to work with fresh food.

Responsibilities

• Assist Head Chef in menu creation based on residents' preferences.
• Ensure kitchen operations in the Head Chef's absence.
• Deliver high-quality dishes using fresh produce.

Skills

Personable approach

Interest in residents' wellbeing

Team leadership

Nutritional understanding

Fresh seasonal food experience

Warm environment creation

HACCP understanding

Education

City & Guilds/NVQ/SVQ or equivalent

Job description

This role is for a qualified chef to work as a Bank Chef at Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK's leading healthcare providers. The job offers the opportunity to work with fresh seasonal food and have a better work-life balance compared to a traditional chef role in a hotel or restaurant. The successful candidate will assist the Head Chef in creating nutritious, flavoursome, and well-balanced menus while working closely with residents to tailor the menus to their preferences. Barchester is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centered hospitality and is looking for passionate and motivated chefs who strive for excellence.

Main duties of the job

As a Bank Chef at Barchester Healthcare, you will have the chance to deliver hotel/restaurant standards without the split shifts and long weeks. You will assist the Head Chef in creating nutritious, flavoursome and well balanced menus whilst working with residents to tailor menus around them. Barchester is one of the UKs leading healthcare providers, with over 224 homes and hospitals across the country. They are consistently reinvesting and growing, with several more new build homes due open and join the Barchester family. Barchester can offer long term career growth and opportunities for ambitious chefs who pride themselves on working at the highest of standards.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, with over 224 homes and hospitals across the country. The company is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centered hospitality and is consistently reinvesting and growing, with several new build homes due to open and join the Barchester family. Barchester is proud to be accredited as one of the best companies to work for in the UK, offering long-term career growth and opportunities for ambitious chefs.

Job responsibilities

Are you a qualified chef looking to work with fresh seasonal food, with the opportunity to have more of a work life balance and make what you do matter?

Working as a Bank Chef at Barchester, you will have the chance to deliver hotel/restaurant standards without the split shifts and long weeks. You will assist the Head Chef in creating nutritious, flavoursome and well balanced menus whilst working with residents to tailor menus around them. We are proud to deliver person centred hospitality across all our services and look for warm, motivated and passionate chefs who are driven by quality.

Barchester is one of the UKs leading healthcare providers, with over 224 homes and hospitals across the country. We are consistently reinvesting and growing, with several more new build homes due open and join the Barchester family. Barchester can offer long term career growth and opportunities for ambitious chefs who pride themselves on working at the highest of standards.

We are also the only healthcare provider in the UK to be accredited as one of the best companies to work.

NEED TO HAVE

A personable and warm approach with a genuine interest in the wellbeing of residents Hold City & Guilds/NVQ/SVQ or equivalent Experience in helping lead and inspire a team A good understanding of nutrition Experience of working with fresh seasonal food The ability to create a warm and welcoming environment within our home Good understanding of HACCP

NEED TO DO

Help manage the kitchen in the Head Chef's absence Work fresh produce to deliver high quality and wholesome dishes cooked at the highest quality and standards Help create a warm, efficient and fun environment Work within budget Complete regular audits Manage stock control To assist in leading and motivating a team

REWARDS PACKAGE

Work life balance - working days with alternate weekends Free learning and development A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Opportunity to showcase your talent at the annual Barchester Hospitality Awards Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

If you are a passionate Chef who is keen to be part of a company that is driven by quality and who love to celebre life, Barchester is the place to be

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A personable and warm approach with a genuine interest in the wellbeing of residents, Hold City & Guilds/NVQ/SVQ or equivalent, Experience in helping lead and inspire a team, A good understanding of nutrition, Experience of working with fresh seasonal food, The ability to create a warm and welcoming environment within our home, Good understanding of HACCP

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.