Job Description

Introduction

Are you an experienced Chef who enjoys cooking and wants a better work/life balance? Have evenings to yourself and work 5 days a week without being under heavy pressure or stress, while working with fresh seasonal ingredients.

You\'ll be joining a brand-new mental health service, Oaktree Manor, which is opening early 2024, where you\'ll be preparing and freshly cooking nutritious meals at scale for service users, staff and visitors - breakfast, lunch and dinner. This includes catering for individual\'s needs and dietary requirements.

There are also regular activities, events and special occasions throughout the year which you\'ll get to cater for - world food day, Christmas, Easter, family day etc. In other words, plenty of chance to be creative and do something different.

You and your fellow two other chefs will report to and work closely with the Head Chef, with support from Catering Assistants to run the kitchen to hotel/restaurant standards.

This is a social role where, as well as your catering colleagues, you\'ll get to engage with the 150+ staff and up to 42 service users every day as you serve your fresh and delicious dishes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Prepare and cook meals in accordance with our Safe Catering policies and procedures.
• Food ordering and maintaining required food stock levels
• Keep stockholding area hygienic, clear of obstructions, presentable and tidy at all times.
• Ensure food safety and departmental HACCP policies are adhered to at all times.
• Keep up-to-date with departmental COSHH manual and PPE requirement for each food preparation and cleaning task.
• Reduce food waste to gain greater value for money.
• Responding to routine enquiries from colleagues and service users.

To be a Successful Chef you will need:

• NVQ2 or equivalent or Qualified by Experience in Catering together with a basic qualification in food hygiene
• Able to work efficiently under pressure.
• Creative flair and a passion for cooking.
• Good communication and organisational skills.

What you will get:

• An annual salary of \xc2\xa328,000
• The equivalent of 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) - plus your birthday off
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity and adoption package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person\'s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Elysium Healthcare