Head Chef
Posted 2 hours 18 minutes ago by NHS
DSFS are looking to recruit the right person into the position of Head Chef who will join our team on a full-time basis, working within Café at the Royal, located at the main entrance at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
This opportunity offers shifts 5 days per week, Monday to Friday, working shifts with starting times of 7am and finishing at 3pm.
Our team is the focal point for patients, visitors and staff in the Hospital. We are looking for someone who is an experienced Chef and will thrive in this role, creating the right environment for our staff and visitors alike.
The closing date is 08 April 2026
Main duties of the job- Responsible for overseeing kitchen operations, preparing high-quality meals, and managing kitchen staff to ensure an exceptional dining experience for our customers.
- Create and develop menus using seasonal ingredients, ensuring dishes are cost effective and nutritious.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to issue instructions in a calm manner.
- Ability to keep calm under pressure.
- Will be pivotal in ensuring full compliance with all Food Safety Guidelines.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship; any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.
Job responsibilitiesPlease see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
Person Specification Qualifications- Level 3 Advanced Food Hygiene Qualification
- Trained to Diploma level in Catering City & Guilds 706/1 & 2 or equivalent NVQs
- Level 4 Food Safety or equivalent knowledge or working towards accreditation
- Knowledge and understanding of current issues in the NHS relating to catering services
- Experience in a similar position being responsible for standards and service within a service led and customer environment.
- Able to make decisions.
- Experience within commercial/branded retail and/or NHS catering operations.
- Experience with menu planning.
- Able to manage, motivate and lead a team.
- A good communicator, able to converse easily and well at all levels.
- Enthusiastic and having a passion for food.
- Excellent customer care skills.
- Work well under pressure and able to prioritise.
- Strong knowledge of HACCP, COSSH and Health and Safety legislation.
- Self motivated and able to motivate others.
- Able to work on their own initiative.
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 nameChesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust