Chef

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

• Maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the department in accordance with the Trust’s Food Hygiene Policy and current legislation.
• To follow safety regulations and safe systems of work in the catering department to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Legislation.
• Adheres to all departmental SOPs as required.
• To ensure catering assistants use equipment safely and correctly at all times.
• Maintain work records and time sheets appropriately at all times.
• To deal with Ward enquiries regarding patient meals.
• To attend regular individual personal development review to identify personal development needs in line with the Trust’s aims and objectives.
• Attend training as required and identified in personal development plans.
• As part of personal development programme participate in working groups involved in the development of patient and retail services, departmental procedures or user groups.
• To produce a range of meals as per production schedules, to standard recipes and cooking methods, ensuring nutritional standards are maintained.
• To ensure the correct economical use of raw ingredients to prevent over-production and food wastage, including the requisitioning of goods from stores.
• To assess alternative courses of action with menu scheduling where required e.g. delivery shortfall, equip

Working in Kitchen and Restaurant Areas Will Involve

• Hot and humid conditions.
• Periods of working in cold conditions.
• Exposure to low temperatures in walk-in fridges and freezers.
• Work equipment that operates at extremely high temperatures, including naked flames and steam and may have sharp blades and moving parts.
• Floor surfaces may have spillages of good and liquids increasing the risk of slips and falls.
• Use of cleaning chemicals during cleaning process.
• Fumes from the deep fat fryers and the cooking process.
• Exposure to very hot liquids during cooking process.
• Sharp knives.
• Handling raw meat, fish and poultry.
• Staff are required to be on their feet for the majority of the shift, only sitting down during rest periods.
• Staff are required to work to agreed timescales for production and service of patients’ meals or opening of retail outlets. This puts considerable pressure on individuals to ensure their element of service is timely.
• Work can frequently be repetitive with the production of meals to set menus.
• Staff are frequently required to lift and move items within the Department during production, washing up, plating of meals, cleaning and stocking up retail areas. Weight can exceed 5 kg.
• Staff are occasionally required to move stock up to15kg with the aid of a trolley around the production area.
• Machine or hand mop floor areas.
• Cleaning of wall.
• Deep cleaning of work equipment.
• Staff involved with retail outlets or direct ward services require the skills to serve staff, visitors and patients and, in some cases, deal with complaints.

Mental Effort

• Regular concentration required when using knives and machinery during cooking schedules

Person Specification

Shortlisting Criteria

Essential Criteria

• Ability to communicate with other catering staff regarding work issues and instructions
• To be able to undertake a structured training programme through taught courses and on the job training to last approximately 3 months to include foundation certificate in food hygiene/level 2 food safety certificate, and equipment training (slicing, boilers, cooling kettles etc). To be signed off as competent with a 3-4 month period
• Recent relevant catering experience is desirable
• Ability to use initiative, prioritise and take prompt follow up action as required by the situation, e.g. quality control/replacing a customer’s meal
• Ability to work as a member of a team

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

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