Chef with Heart

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Chef with Heart

Location: St Marys Hospice, Ulverston

Responsible to: Head Chef

Contracted Hours: To work 28 hours per week, (a certain degree of flexibility commensurate with the requirements of the post is necessary) will include weekend working on a regular basis

Hours of Work: A combination of hours between 8am-6pm 4 days a week

What does an average day involve

What does an average day involve

• Putting orders away,
• Putting orders away,
• opening up the kitchen for the day,
• completing HAACP Documentation.
• Making soups, quiches, daily specials of your choice, baking scrummy cakes, sandwich fillings, pies.
• Preparing the salad bar for service.
• Attending the inpatient unit speaking with each patient and discussing their likes, dislikes and dietary needs for that day.
• Making meals for patients at lunch and tea time.
• Running a full lunch service alongside another chef and a kitchen assistant, anywhere between 40 and 90 covers. Preparing afternoon teas, baking for these.
• Planning ahead for the rest of the weeks demands
• Everyone does a bit of everything, including washing up yes really!

This job description is intended to be not a complete list of duties and responsibilities but a guide to the job. It will be periodically reviewed in the light of developing work requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Person Specification
• Essential
• Desirable
• Qualifications and knowledge
• Basic Food Hygiene certificate
• Health and safety in a kitchen environment
• Manual Handling
• A good knowledge of health care related nutritional requirements in a care setting
• Infection Control
• Allergen training
• Experience
• Proven experience in a commercial kitchen environment preparing and cooking meals from fresh ingredients.
• Experienced and proficient baker
• Communication skills
• Strong verbal communication.
• The ability to listen and take instructions
• Personal Attributes
• Team worker.
• Working under pressure.
• The ability to work in an unpredictable environment and to change activities at others request or on own initiative.
• To be sensitive and perceptive.
• Naturally friendly
• Calm
• Confident
• Good sense of humour

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This 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.

Employer details

Employer name

St. Mary's Hospice

Address

Ford Park Crescent

Ulverston

Cumbria

LA12 7JP

Employer's website

https://www.stmaryshospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)