Main area: Chef Grade Grade C
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 Days from 7 between the hours of 0830-1630, flexibility is required to allow for cover of leave and sickness)
Job ref: 423-AGHS6808891
Site: Airedale General Hospital
Town: Steeton
Salary: £31,950 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/12/2024 23:59
AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.
We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.
Job overview
Are you wanting the next challenge in your career where you can develop menu ideas, or a role where you can make a difference to our users' experience and bring fresh ideas to a team, but also be part of the leadership team? We may just have the role for you!
Our Catering Team within AGH Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, are now looking for caring, committed, and flexible colleagues to join the Catering Team in the new and exciting role as Development Head Chef.
You’ll be working alongside our chefs and cooks, supporting them in delivering meals for our colleagues, visitors, and patients, along with working with our Specialist Catering Dietitian on menu planning.
You will also have end-to-end line management responsibilities of a team of colleagues, including training, onboarding, recruitment, sickness, and performance management. Other parts of your role will include working with the services manager on service development and profitability.
We welcome applications from all and aspire for our workforce to be a representation of our demographic and service users.
Main duties of the job
AGH Solutions Catering Department is committed to providing a high-quality standard of service to all of its patients and customers.
1. To provide a professional catering service, managing the production of food within the Catering Services department along with overseeing and developing our retail services.
2. To ensure that set standards, procedures, and processes to produce high-quality food are adhered to and comply with all internal and external food production regulations and legislation.
3. A full understanding of the NHSE (NHS England) Food and Drink standards and their effects within the Trust's Food and Drink Strategy, alongside others such as the Trust's Green plan.
4. To supervise and support members of your direct and wider indirect team.
5. Liaising with members of the Catering Services Management team to provide a comprehensive customer journey for service users, staff, and visitors.
6. Working alongside the Specialist Catering Dietitian and Services Manager on the development and implementation of Trust menus, promoting food waste and green miles reduction, current food trends, and nutritional requirements.
7. Working with the Catering Management team in developing in-house teams and upskilling through training plans, coaching, and external courses.
Working for our organisation
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire. We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale, and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high-quality, value-for-money service. Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically.
Benefits include
* 26 days holiday a year + Bank Holidays (pro rata)
* 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Line
* Options to buy and sell annual leave
* Access to 5 Staff Networks – Enable, Gender, Race Equality, Rainbow, and Admin Networks
* Onsite Children’s Nursery
* Access to NHS Discounts
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 2/3 in Cookery or City & Guilds 7061 & 7062 OR Equivalent
* Must have sound numeracy and literacy skills.
* HACCP Training
* IOSH
* Food Safety Level 3
* IT skills with the ability to use a range of IT systems
* Organisational skills in delivering a quality food service to service users including retail and inpatients
* Ability to motivate staff, individuals, and teams
* Capable of working within time limits and under pressure
* Previous experience of data inputting / online ordering / Familiar with Windows and Microsoft Office
* Experience of Line management of teams
* Event Catering / Schools / Universities
* Hospitality Catering
* Event planning/lead responsibility experience
Knowledge
* Demonstrates an understanding of Confidentiality, Dignity, and Respect
* Good understanding of Food Safety and Health and Safety
* Willingness to complete mandatory training and any departmental training/qualification
* Knowledge of cleaning procedures
* Understanding of Information Governance
* Knowledge of patient catering and special diets
* Knowledge of temperature and HACCP monitoring systems
Experience
* Previous catering experience
* Good knowledge and understanding of allergen management
* Previous experience working with the public/customers
* Previous experience as a Chef
* Experience of Staff Management
* Experience of producing menus & recipes to meet dietary requirements
* Good organisational skills in delivering a quality food service to service users, staff, and visitors
* Experience of Profit and Loss and GP Workings
* Previous experience in the production of special diets
* Previous Cook in a Healthcare / Hospitality / Education Setting
* Experienced career in catering and retail operations
* Experience of using electric stock systems
Other
* Experience of completing work records and ability to work to schedules, procedures, and deadlines
* Ability to undertake rota requirements if necessary, including early mornings and public holidays
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full month's salary. This is a condition of your employment.
In applying for a post that requires a DBS check you are confirming that you have read and understood the DBS Privacy Policy for Enhanced and Standard Checks.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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