Chef

Job Overview

Frimley Health Hospitals Kitchen and restaurants have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and talented chef to produce traditional, home-made and (where possible), locally sourced food in a large production kitchen producing meals for our patients and staff canteen

The successful applicant must have previous experience in a chef position in a quality-driven establishment. The ideal candidate will need to be motivated and have a genuine passion for food and quality to make a real difference to our patients. You will be able to work in a busy environment and thrive under pressure.

Main duties of the job

• Prepare and cook dishes from fresh ingredients
• Ensure that all dishes are properly cooked and attractively presented
• Prepare meals to the amounts forecasted, exercising the required level of portion control
• Assist with function catering as required
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Prepare food to the Trusts recipe database, prepare, cook and present dishes in accordance to the menu plan for patients and staff.
• Liaise with the Head/Assistant Head chef in relation to special dietary requirements.
• To ensure all communication with patients, public and staff are responded to in a polite, friendly and courteous manner.
• Communicate and liaise with staff across the Trust, suppliers and other external organisations.
• Maintain high level of communication within the catering team and other Directorate(s)
• Undertake surveys or audits necessary to the role.
• To ensure workload is completed in timely manner.
• Keep working areas and equipment in a clean and hygienic condition and that good hygiene practices are observed in all catering tasks
• Assist with the recording of food temperatures in accordance with department policy and procedures
• To assist with menu planning and menu development
• Required to use analytical and judgement skills to address and resolve general daily issues that arise within the department.
• To comply with all current Food Hygiene Legislation and to attend necessary training to the role.
• Ensure Trust financial procedures are followed
• To promote effective and efficient use of department and Trust resources
• Assist with receipt of stock from catering stores and be aware of the security of all goods and provisions within area.
• Advise on sufficient stock levels of provisions, portable catering equipment, disposables and cleaning materials.
• Practice good levels of stock rotation and the correct storage of all perishable items ensuring that all refrigerated and frozen items are stored at the correct temperature and are date stamped and are date stamped and within their sell by date.
  
  

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 or NVQ equivalent
• Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Intermediate Certificate in Food Hygiene
• Knowledge of HACCP
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Career structure that shows a logical progression to a chef position in a similar size and/or NHS catering operation
• Experience of working in a service led and customer focused environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience with both the commercial food service sector and/or an NHS catering operation
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good command of written English
• Ability to work efficiently and to time
• Organised and methodical
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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