Chef - Patient and Retail Catering Food Production
1 week ago
Chef - Patient and Retail Catering Food ProductionA fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and driven individual to join the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust Hospital, Reading, Berkshire. The successful candidate will be working in the Catering Department as a chef, on a full-time basis.This is an exciting opportunity to join Royal Berkshire NHS Trust one of the UK's largest general hospital foundation trusts- serving a population excess of 500,000. The main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire. One of UK's exemplary hospitals and rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission.We deliver approximately 1,600 patient meals and 700 staff/visitor meals in the Restaurant/Deli & Training Center every day. We also deliver Internal functions in excess of 40,000 covers per annum.The ideal candidate will have similar experience working in a high volume production kitchen, following standardised departmental recipes.Main duties of the jobPreparing and cooking patients and restaurant food as per recipe.Cooking and preparing elements of high quality and diet specific dishes.Keeping up with industry trends and help create new recipes.Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen and ensuring sanitation practices in the kitchen.Assisting other chefs.Helping with deliveries and restocking.Assisting with stock rotation.Cleaning stations.Contributing to maintaining kitchen and food safety standards.About usThe CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent. Our Vision: Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.Job responsibilitiesCommunicate information relating to food service requirements to staff, patients and other members of the public both verbally and by telephone.Organise day-to-day work tasks or activities in conjunction with assistant head chef.Provide information on food service, matters including recipes and wastage information.Responsible for the correct operation of kitchen equipment.Adherence to standard recipes and production planning whilst ensuring the most economical use of provisions.Supervise the serving of food and the maintaining of good portion control and presentation of the food served.Person SpecificationEducation/QualificationsNVQ 2 in Cookery or City and Guilds equivalentBasic Food HygieneHigher level food safety qualificationExperienceHas proven ability to cook with fresh ingredients from start to end productHas experience of working in a Team environmentRelevant experience of working in the catering undertaking a chef / cook roleRelevant experience of working in a similar type of establishment (NHS)KnowledgeHas knowledge and experience of delivering specialist dietsPlease refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Reading, United Kingdom UDML College of Engineering, JECRC Founadation, Jaipur Full timeChef – Patient and Retail Catering Food ProductionJob Ref: 193-7355244CORBand 2 – Permanent – Full time (37.5 h/week) – Salary £24,465 per annum – Working at Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.Job OverviewWe need a dedicated chef to support high‑volume patient and staff meal production, operating within a regulated NHS kitchen. The role includes...
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