Head Chef

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

To effectively deliver a catering service to service users, staff and visitors in line with NHS Estates Plan for Better Hospital Food and Food & Health Policy at the above unit.

Lead, train and supervise a team to departmental standards ensuring food hygiene regulations and Health and Safety policies are adhered to.

Ensure meals are produced to recipes and ensure they are ready for service to agreed deadlines.

JOB DIMENSIONS:

(e.g. budgetary or supervisory responsibilities)

Responsible for the management and training of catering/kitchen staff. Responsibility for the ordering, monitoring and recording of catering provisions.

Authorising signature on timesheets.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

The postholder will be required to:

• Have an active input and work with the Catering Manager to compile and create new menus, using flair and creativity, preparing documents to trust standards.
• Undertake stock takes and inventories.
• Deal with comments and feedback with necessary actions to maintain food safety and hygiene provisions.
• Organise and manage the process of food delivery to service users ensuring departmental procedures and standard operating procedures are being adhered to.
• Responsible for the recording of ward liaison procedures and ensuring appropriate actions are being taken.
• Assist in developing the catering service to reach its full potential by developing new systems of work.
• Responsible for the stock control and daily ordering of catering provisions and acting on any delivery problems.
• Responsible for the reallocation of duty rosters in the event of sickness and absence.
• Assist the Catering Business Manager in menu planning.
• Responsible for the training of new employees.
• Act as a mentor for modern apprentices.
• Take necessary action from Environmental and internal hygiene inspections.
• Provide information to service users and ward teams regarding catering meal services.
• Responsible for the checking of daily departmental documentation and acting on any discrepancies.
• Ensure special dietary requests are met, liaising with the dietician as and when required.
• Reporting faults to the Estates department.
• Responsible for recruitment and selection, appraisals, sickness and absence monitoring and work allocation of staff.
• Maintain monthly expenditure and income records.
• Assist in service change and policy development.
• At the discretion of the Catering Business Manager undertake any other duties in other areas of the department to ensure the smooth running of the service.

Trust Values:

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g., service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all times. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest, open, transparent

Respectful

Person first and in the centre

Improve and be outstanding

Relevant today, ready for tomorrow

Families and carers matter

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;

receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;

ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining;

comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached;

work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards.

adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Person Specification

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Ability to use own initiative.
• Ability to motivate and encourage staff.
• Good organisational skills.
• Ability to deal with complaints.
• Ability to manage, motivate and lead a team.
• Ability to work well under pressure and able to prioritise.

Experience

Essential

• Operational / technical skills and stock control knowledge.
• Ability to use own initiative.

Training

Essential

• Demonstrable supervisory experience.
• Demonstrable experience within a catering environment.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• A good communicator, able to converse easily and well at all levels.
• Flexible towards working arrangements.
• Ability to work in a stressful situation.

Qualifications

Essential

• 706/1 & 2 or equivalent NVQ grade.
• Management Certificate or able to prove competencies at this level.
• Advanced Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Strong Health & Safety / Food Hygiene and HACCP skills.
• Experience in a similar position being responsible for standards and service working within a service led and customer focused environment.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of NHS Plan Better Hospital Food Programme.
• Knowledge of special diets.
• Health eating training.

Physical Attributes

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

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

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Fieldhead Hospital

Ouchthorpe Lane

Wakefield

WF1 3SP

Employer's website

https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)