Frimley Health Hospitals kitchens and restaurants have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and talented chef to produce traditional home-made dishes in a large production kitchen for patients, staff and visitors. The successful applicant must have previous experience in a chef position in a quality driven establishment. The ideal candidate will need to be motivated and have a genuine passion for food and quality to make a real difference to our patients and customers. You will need to be able to work in a busy environment and thrive under pressure. Working 5 days out of 7 * Prepare and cook dishes from fresh ingredients. * Ensure that all dishes are properly cooked and attractively presented. * Prepare meals to the amounts forecasted, exercising the required level of portion control. * Assist with catering functions as required. * Assist with food service at breakfast and lunch time. There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts -We have three main hospitals: Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough, and we also provide integrated community services to North East Hampshire, Farnham and Surrey Heath in partnership with Virgin Care Services. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health * Prepare food to trust's recipe database, prepare, cook and present dishes in accordance to menu plan for patients and staff. * Liaise with the chef / manager in relation to special diets. * Ensure all communications with patients, public and staff are responded in a polite, friendly and courteous manner. * Communicate and liaise with staff across the trust, suppliers and other external organisations. * Maintain high level of communication within the catering team and other directorate(s). * To comply with trust policy on confidentiality and data protection. * Undertake surveys or audits necessary to the role. * To ensure workload is completed in timely manner, including washing up. * Keep working areas and equipment in a clean and hygienic condition and that good hygiene practices are observed in all catering tasks. * Ensure HACCP is followed at all times and correct records are kept. * to assist with menu planning and menu development . * Required to use analytical and judgement skills to address and resolve general daily issues that arise within the department. * To comply with all current Food Hygiene Legislation and to attend necessary training to the role. * Ensure trust financial procedures are followed. * To promote effective and efficient use of department and trust resources. * assist with receipt of deliveries and be aware of the security of all goods and provisions within the area. * Advise on sufficient stock levels of provisions, portable catering equipment, disposables and cleaning materials. * Practice good levels of stock rotation and the correct storage of all perishable items ensuring that all refrigerated and frozen items are stored at the correct temperature and are date stamped and within their use by date. * Ensure food storage areas are kept clean. * Assist in the transportation of food to Adjacent building (Heatherwood Hospital). * Assist with food ordering. * Assist with food service. ** Note: Please see job description and person specification for further information. This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024 Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident