Chef - Bank

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

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Bank Chef, focused on delivering high-quality, nutritious meals while maintaining a work-life balance. You'll assist in menu creation and work closely with residents to tailor their dining experience, all within a supportive hospital environment. This position offers long-term career growth and a chance to work with fresh seasonal ingredients, ensuring restaurant-level food standards without demanding shifts. If you're passionate about quality and care, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Free learning and development

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Participation in annual Barchester Hospitality Awards

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Qualified Chef with a genuine interest in wellbeing of residents.
• Experience of working with fresh seasonal food.
• Good understanding of nutrition and HACCP.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Head Chef in creating nutritious, flavoursome menus.
• Help manage the kitchen in the Head Chef's absence.
• Deliver high-quality dishes to hotel/restaurant standards.

Skills

Personable and warm approach

Understanding of nutrition

Experience with fresh seasonal food

Team leadership skills

Knowledge of HACCP

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 successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with fresh seasonal food, delivering hotel/restaurant standards without the split shifts and long weeks. They will assist the Head Chef in creating nutritious, flavoursome, and well-balanced menus while working with residents to tailor the menus around their preferences.

Main duties of the job

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. Barchester can offer long-term career growth and opportunities for ambitious chefs who pride themselves on working at the highest standards.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's 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 to open and join the Barchester family. Barchester is also the only healthcare provider in the UK to be accredited as one of the best companies to work for.

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 UK’s 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 to 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 standards.

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

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 with fresh produce to deliver high-quality and wholesome dishes cooked at the highest standards
• Help create a warm, efficient, and fun environment
• Work within budget
• Complete regular audits
• Manage stock control
• 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 loves to celebrate 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, a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.