Head Chef

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Oldham; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Head Chef to lead their kitchen team at All Saints Hospital. This innovative role allows for balanced work-life while overseeing meal preparation and ensuring quality service for patients and staff. With no evenings and a five-day workweek, the position offers great job satisfaction, diverse responsibilities, and engagement in culinary creativity.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including your birthday off

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development opportunities

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Catering Diploma and Health & Safety and Food Hygiene Certificates required.
• Experience in mass service delivery within a similar environment.
• Management experience in a kitchen setting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the preparation of meals for staff and service users.
• Manage the catering team to run an efficient food service.
• Develop and standardize seasonal menu items.

Skills

Menu Planning

Stock Control

Team Management

Catering Service Delivery

Health & Safety Compliance

Education

Catering Diploma

GCSE or Equivalent in English

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Intermediate Food Hygiene Certification

Management/Supervisory Qualification

Job description

Introduction

Ever imagined being a Head Chef and still having a social life? Experience the blend of being a Head Chef while maintaining a vibrant life outside of work.

This role offers a refreshing change from the typical culinary demands- no evenings, a five-day work week and keeping the stress levels low.

You will be leading an established kitchen team at All Saints HospitalinOldhamoverseeing the preparation oflarge-scale meals for the staff and service users. Your role extends beyond the kitchen, as you provide guidance and training to support your team.

There are regular activities, events and special occasions throughout the year which you’ll also cater for – world food day, Christmas, Easter, family day etc. In other words, plenty of chance to be creative and do something different.

It’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and enjoy creating delicious meals. There’s a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly.

You and your catering team will run the kitchen to hotel/restaurant standards, ensuring a smooth operation with a clean kitchen, tasty menu and happy ‘customers’.

Just imagine… great job satisfaction, home in time for dinner every night and two days off a week. Now that’s a recipe for a balanced work-life combo.

As a Head Chef you will be:

• Coordinating the day-to-day management of the catering team to run an efficient food production service
• Ensuring that the catering service meets the nutritional and dietary needs of the service users
• Ensuring the catering service provides meals to staff and company visitors in accordance with the Company policies and procedures
• Taking the lead in the production of a menu plan, providing a varied diet within budgetary restraints
• Ensuring that any maintenance and servicing of catering equipment or the environment is reported to Facilities Manager/maintenance
• Seek feedback, develop and standardise seasonal menu items to ensure nutritious and high-quality food is produced
• Responding to any reported complaints or incidents, assisting with investigation and referring any unresolved complaints
• Responsible for stock management and equipment in the production areas, reporting issues or concerns
• Managing efficient staff rotas, plan agency and overtime cover and ensure absences are covered within agreed budgets
• Assisting in the completion of monthly audits of the catering provision to ensure standards are maintained
  

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• GCSE or equivalent English
• Catering Diploma (City & Guilds/BTEC) and Health & Safety and Food Hygiene Certificates
• City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
• Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
• Intermediate Food hygiene (desirable)
• Previous experience in a similar environment
• Management/Supervisory Qualification
• Previous experience in delivering a service on mass
• Menu Planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budgetexperience

Where you will be working:

Location:Grange Avenue, Oldham,Greater Manchester,OL8 4EF

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team at All Saints Hospital, providing care for people who are deaf or have complex communication needs. It is a culturally sensitive service which has been created to provide support and rehabilitation with care and intervention from both deaf and hearing members of staff.

All Saints Hospital which is a specialist Mental Health service which has self-contained flats for men over 18 years old, which helps them move along their care pathway to more independent living.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £27,586
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – (inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
• Freemeals and free parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
• Pension contribution to secure your future
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.