Band 3 Chef - Orchard Restaurant

Job Summary

The Catering department has an exciting opportunity to work as part of the team at the Orchard Restaurant at Good Hope Hospital.

A Chef should have a passion for ensuring customers are provided with a friendly, safe and efficient service.

The Responsibilities Are

Food preparation, handling and serving of foods across all areas of the Catering department and associated hospital sites. The post holder will require maintaining good food hygiene standards for patients, staff and visitors to the Trust in accordance with individual sites processes.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

• Organise and plan own work according to work schedules and rotas
• Prepare and cook food according to a planned menu
• Exercise portion control following recipes guidelines
• Prepare food to patients when required.
• Assist in ordering of kitchen supplies in liaison with the storeman & the central production unit
• The employee is expected to be familiar with the relevant hygiene and safety legislation relating to kitchen areas and attend any refresher training.
• Adhere to all assured safe catering practices
• Help in welfare and training of assistants and students and the induction of new staff.
• Ensure work carried out by assistants is up to standard.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate to the cook's grade delegated by the senior member of staff
• Follow agreed Catering HACCP plan set for the working area or site
• Complete all necessary HACCP paperwork
  
  

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
• Allergen Training
• European Qualification Considered
• City and Guilds 706/1 or NVQ 2/3 equivalent
• City and Guilds 706/2 or NVQ 2/3 equivalent
• Food Hygiene Level 3 or equivalent (e.g. Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, CIEH)
• Level 2 Health & Safety qualification or equivalent (e.g. Institute of Occupational Safety and Health IOSH, CIEH)
• Level 2 HACCP qualification or equivalent
• BETEC Level 3 Catering course or equivalent ( 706/1 2 certificate)
  
  

Desirable

• Good basic education
• HACCP Training
• Level 2 in Infection Control or equivalent (e.g. NVQ)
• Level 2 in Customer Care/Services or equivalent
• Level 3 Health and Safety Qualification or equivalent (e.g. IOSH, CIEH)
• Food Hygiene Level 4 or equivalent (e.g. Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, CIEH)
• Level 2 -- Team Leading/Management qualification or equivalent (e.g. Institute of Leadership & Management ILM)
• Level 2 Cleaning qualification or equivalent (e.g. National Vocational Qualification NVQ or certificated British Institute of Cleaning Science qualification (BICs)
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Food Hygiene Regulations
• Catering background with a minimum of one year's experience
• Food Safety
• Experience of monitoring standards against targets
• Self-management and team-building skills, aware of customer requirements, aware of inter-personal dynamics
• Knowledge of catering services within a health care environment
• Knowledge of Health & Safety at Work Regulations, COSHH, HACCP and Environmental Health legislation
• Knowledge of National Specification for Cleaning and methodologies in the NHS including monitoring standards

Standard IT skills

Desirable

• Site HACCP plans
• Experience of training individuals or groups
• Experience of working in a large scale catering operation
• Knowledge of hospital routines and procedures
• Knowledge of Infection Control, implementation of infection control measures and methodology
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 -- Quality Management System
• Knowledge of Menu-Mark system or equivalent ordering system
• Developed IT skills
• Minimum of Team leader/supervisory experience
• Human Resources procedures -- recruitment, appraisals, absence management
  
  

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Team worker
• Be able to communicate effectively, accurately and confidently using all methodologies to individuals and small groups
• Brief and motivate a team
• Develop excellent working relationships with management and service users
• Be visible and approachable to facilities staff and clients
• Training individuals and groups on catering tasks
• Ability to select staff in the course if recruitment and service needs
• Understand service need requirements and priorities e.g. appropriate staffing levels as required
• Recognise development needs of staff groups
• Apply Trust policies and procedures appropriately
• Ability to recognise compliance issues, resolve hygiene and safety issues
• Understand how a team works
• Good time keeping
• Be an ambassador for the catering department and represent facilities management effectively and appropriately
• Maintain excellent personal standards, act as a leader and mentor for staff
• Be approachable, professional and courteous at all times
• Understand the people being led and can manage own workloads and responsibilities
• Ability to work well during demanding situations
• Be highly motivated to ensure high standards are achieved and maintained

Be motivated to create good team working with staff groups

Demonstrate an enthusiasm to promote the catering departments and team members

Have a 'can do' attitude

Desirable

• Ability to work on own initiative
• Awareness of Trust's values
• Good sickness record
• Personal achievements
• Shifts cover can change at short notice to be flexible to the needs of the service to provide cover
  
  

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.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Cheryl Smith

cheryl.smith@uhb.nhs.uk

01214247200

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24937.00 to £26598.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9013978

Job locations

Good Hope Hospital

Rectory Rd

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

B75 7RR

Attachments

Job Description

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