Cook

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

Cook

The closing date is 19 April 2026.

We require a Cook in our Catering Team to prepare & serve patients meals, ensuring this is carried out in accordance with the Food Safety act 1990 and the Food Hygiene Regulations 1995 and any subsequent Food Safety Legislation.

Main duties of the job

• Communicate on a daily basis with patients, nursing staff and colleagues. Contact with nursing staff may be either face to face within the hospital or by the receiving of telephone requests into the department for extra meals or special diets.
• Receive deliveries on an occasional basis within the catering department.
• Liaise with Manager and Supervisors daily and act upon any specific tasks required.
• Allow new starters to shadow various duties in the department such as cooking and food service.
• Participate in Trust mandatory training or any departmental specific training.
• Ensure patients receive any special diets requested.
• Prepare buffets or hospitality requests.
• Maintain high standards of food safety in line with Environmental Health and legislative requirements and ensure the departmental Hazard Analysis system is adhered to.
• Preparation and cooking of the patients meals ensuring all standard recipes and allergen legislation is adhered to.

Job responsibilities

• Respond to patient comments or complaints regarding any food quality issues and ensure appropriate action is taken.
• Liaise with all staff regarding any service issues and any changes to Menus on a daily basis.
• Work with any new starters to the department, demonstrating tasks and methods of work.
• Report any maintenance problems or defects within the Kitchen to the Estates Department.
• Deal with deliveries on an occasional basis, receiving any deliveries into the department, ensuring correct procedures are carried out in accordance with the HACCP system.

Person Specification

• Demonstrate knowledge of bulk cooking.
• Show an example of your work.
• Minimum 1 year experience.
• Working as a team.
• Knowledge of large scale catering.
• Minimum 2 years experience.
• Able to work unsupervised.
• Understanding of HACCP.
• Evidence to support knowledge.
• Explain all aspects of the job advertised.

Cooking

• Be able to demonstrate creation of a menu.
• Work well within a large team.

Fitness

• Physically Fit.
• Understanding of HACCP.

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.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT