Cook / Chef

4 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Band 2 Cook / Chef

A 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 job

Preparing 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 us

The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our values: C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E Vision: Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communicate 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.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

NVQ 2 in Cookery or City and Guilds equivalent Basic Food Hygiene

Experience

Essential

Ability to cook with fresh ingredients from start to end product

Desirable

Relevant experience of working in the catering trade Relevant experience of working in a similar type of establishment

Knowledge

Essential

Minimum level 2 food safety

Desirable

Higher level food safety

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