Bank Chef

Are you a Chef looking for the perfect work/life balance? If so, this might be for you.

Join our staff bank at Thornford Park as a Bank Chef and enjoy the flexibility of picking up available shifts to suit you.

You will prepare and cook lunch and dinner for staff and service users without being under heavy pressure and stress.

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

**Your responsibilities**:

- Undertaking the planning, preparation and cooking of meals, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.
- Taking full shift responsibility for the catering operation
- Assisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and compliment healthy eating guidelines.
- Ensuring the cost-effective and efficient control of stock including placing orders for food products and the checking/ reconciliation of deliveries. Ensuring that wastage is minimised.
- Ensure hygiene and safety standards are maintained in accordance with department policies
- Correctly filling of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e. Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules
- Maintain safe working practices across the department

**To be successful in this role, you'll need**:

- To be 18 years of age or over
- To understand basic numeracy and literacy
- NVQ Level 2 in food preparation & Cooking or equivalent
- Flexibility, as you will be working on weekends
- Basic food hygiene is required but training will be given
- Ability to prioritise work
- Good communication skills as you will be interacting with Service Users as well as staff

**What you will get**
- Hourly rate of £13.44 + Benefits
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Mandatory training
- Flexible Working

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and 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.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.