Chef

Job Description

Ready for a chef role that lets you unleash your creativity? Join Bere Clinic as a Chef to work alongside a dedicated team, crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. You will work 37.5 hours a week, preparing meals, guiding and training peers, and catering for a busy calendar of events, including World Food Day and festive occasions such as Christmas and Easter. The role offers a calm, pleasurable working environment, a great social aspect, and a balanced work life combo with evenings off and two days off a week.

Main Duties

As Chef you will support the Head Chef in daily kitchen operations, maintain food storage and safety procedures, plan menus and manage costs, and ensure all meals meet high standards and dietary requirements. You will also take full shift responsibility for the catering operation and record keeping for HACCP.

Job Responsibilities

• 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 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
• Taking full shift responsibility for the catering operation
• Assisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus to ensure meals are of high quality and complement healthy eating guidelines
• Correctly filing all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP), such as fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules

Requirements

• To be 18 years or older
• GCSE or equivalent in English
• City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
• Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
• Intermediate Food Hygiene (desirable)
• Previous experience in a similar environment
• Previous experience in delivering a service on mass
• Menu planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budget experience

Location and Working Environment

You will provide care and support to young people aged with eating disorders or an eating difficulty with co morbid presentations such as mental health issues, depression, OCD, anxiety or self harm. Bere Clinic has 12 spacious en suite bedrooms, a lounge, a separate dining area and a large activity room. You will be part of a culture that emphasizes teamwork, recovery and compassion.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of £28,700
• Equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays), plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional leave
• Career development and training opportunities
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely Vate
• Wellbeing support and activities to help maintain a healthy work life balance
• Access to a Blue Light Card with exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance and pension contribution
• Stream - instant access to earned wages and financial wellbeing support
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Free meals and parking

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure. It is a requirement that every staff member understands it is each person's responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users.