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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health difficulties to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Ty Catrin is a low secure mental illness and personality disorder service for men and women who require a medium-term placement and recovery-orientated specialist treatment in order to progress on their care pathway towards rehabilitation care.
The facility is split into six wards along with semi-independent flats onsite.
Our Chef role involves:
- Managing the kitchen/catering department within the Hospital in the Head Chef’s absence
- Assisting in providing a varied choice of menu to service users and staff
- Assisting in providing diets as required by service users via requests from the clinical team
- Being responsible for monitoring of staff’s progress and efficiency in the Head Chef’s absence
- Preparing and delivering meals within the budget and preventing wastage
- Ensuring the correct and economic use of materials and equipment
- Assisting in the ordering of weekly supplies and monitoring their quality together with the efficiency of suppliers in the absence of the Head Chef
- Reporting to the Head Chef any deterioration in food consumables supplied
- Being responsible for the collection of food samples as required by the Environmental Health Department
- Ensuring safety of self and training staff in the safe-keeping, usage and cleaning of kitchen equipment and sharp objects
- Ensuring that all food preparation is of a high standard
- Ensuring that all aspects of Health & Safety are adhered to e.g. COSHH, HASNA
- Regularly checking and documenting temperature, equipment and cleanliness, quantity and appearance of meals
- Regularly liaising with wards
- Reporting mechanical defects and repairs
- Monitoring and checking all deliveries
- Reporting any accidents in accordance with Company policies
To be successful as a Chef, you’ll need:
- To be educated to a good standard
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
- Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Catering
Skills/Knowledge
- A good working knowledge of special diet food requirements within hospitals
- Previous experience working in a catering environment
- Knowledge and experience of stock ordering
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Basic knowledge of health and safety and COSHH
In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays increasing to 30 days plus bank holidays with length of service
- Extra Service Annual leave awards
- Career development – progress across the Staff Nurse grading is via a distinct career path
- A contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health insurance
- An employee assistance programme
- Free meals/refreshments when on duty
- Free car parking
- Private Dental Cover
- Flexible Benefits Packages
About us
From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental healthcare.
The integrated strength of each service provides a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency care and across services. This unique approach ensures that every individual has the opportunity to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life with the Priory Group.
As 85% of our services are publicly funded and delivered in partnership with commissioners, our teams work with commissioning bodies across the country to provide transparent pricing models and evidence-based care programmes.
Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.
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