Are you a Chef looking for the perfect work-life balance? This opportunity might just be your perfect fit.
Become a valued member of our staff bank at Adderley Green in Stoke-on-Trent in the role of Bank Chef and enjoy the flexibility to choose shifts that align with your schedule.
As a crucial part of the kitchen team, you’ll play a vital role in crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. Dive into food preparation and elevate your role by providing guidance and training to your peers.
It’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and enjoy creating delicious meals. There’s a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly.
As a Bank Chef you will be:
Supporting the Head Chef for the day-to-day running of the kitchen.
Maintaining good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures.
Preparing, planning and cooking meals to a consistently high standard, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.
Serving service users, staff and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous services manner.
Preparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets.
Participating in food costings through effective cost control procedures.
Adhering to the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ standards and record keeping.
Adhering strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times.
Assisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and compliment healthy eating guidelines.
Correctly filling of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e. Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules
To be successful in this role, you will have:
To be 18 years or older
GCSE or equivalent English
City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
Basic Food Hygiene
Experience preparing and producing quality food to a high standard
Knowledge of menu planning and costing
Previous experience in delivery a service on mass
Where you will be working:
Location: Dividy Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 0TN
You will be working at Adderley Green, a specialist inpatient neurological rehabilitation and complex care service for people with neurological illnesses, acquired brain and spinal cord injuries.
The extensive facilities cater for the specific needs of people aged over 18 years who have complex neurological care and rehabilitation requirements. You will working alongside a multidisciplinary team to deliver truly person-centred services where each individual is at the heart of everything.
Adderley Green offers a full inter disciplinary team to support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and/or changing needs and work towards targeted and monitored goals utilising nationally recognised outcome measures.
What you will get:
Hourly rate of £13.50 (including 12.07% holiday allowance uplift)
Two-week paid induction
Free meals and parking
Mandatory training to ensure you are fully able to do your job at the best of your ability.
Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
Pension contribution to secure your future (Optional)
There is also the option to progress into a permanent role to unlock additional benefits, including career development pathways to grow your career.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure