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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.
Partnerships in Care is one of the UK’s leading providers of independent specialist secure and step-down care across the UK.
With hospitals around the country, 30 years of experience in our sector and highly skilled and experienced teams, we help patients and commissioners find the right care pathways without the need for multiple reassessments.
Annesley House is a low secure and locked recovery and rehabilitation service for women aged 18 years or older with a primary condition of mental illness and personality disorder. We work with women who are stepping down from secure services, or stepping up from community or other inpatient rehabilitation care.
Our High Dependency Unit supports patients who are of high risk to themselves and need more intensive care than is required in a standard inpatient rehabilitation unit.
Annesley House comprises of:
Durham ward - a low secure continuing care ward for women
Cambridge ward - a high dependency ward for women
Oxford ward - a community facing inpatient rehabilitation ward for women
Our Chef Worker role involves:
Professional Responsiblitites:
- Participate in food purchasing through established procedures with an emphasis on cost and quality control.
- Participate in food costings through effective cost control procedures.
- Maintain good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures.
- Prepare and cook meals to a consistently high standard.
- Present and package food as required for distribution.
- To serve patients, staff and visitors with food and beverages in a professional and curtious services manner.
- To assist with the checking of incoming supplies and putting them away in the designated storage areas.
- Distribution and the service of foods
- Preparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets
- To ensure that all areas/equipment within the kitchen and onsite vending machines are cleaned to a high standard using appropriate chemicals following manufacturers instructions.
- Supervise and manage commis chefs and catering assistants
To be successful as Chef you’ll need:
- Qualifications
- GCSE or equivalent English
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- Good general standard of education (essential)
- City & Guilds 706/1 or equivalent (essential) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
- City & Guilds 706/2 or equivalent (essential) Basic Food Preparation Cooking
- Basic Food Hygiene (essential)
- Intermediate Food Hygiene (desirable)
- Supervising qualification or working towards
Skills/Knowledge
- A high level of numeracy (essential)
- Able to communicate with patients, visitors and staff at all levels (essential)
- Able to cope with ease under pressure (essential)
In return for your expertise and hard work, we offer a wide range of benefits:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (at commencement of employment)
- A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP)
- Private Medical Insurance Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Free meals while on duty
- Continuous learning and development
- Childcare vouchers
- Career development
- Personal health insurance
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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