Chef

at  St Margarets Hospice Care

OVERVIEW

We are currently seeking an experienced Chef to join our catering team in our Taunton Hospice. You will join us on a part time (30 hours per week), permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £19,975.94 per annum plus 14% unsocial hours enhancement.
You won’t just be joining a fantastic team – you’ll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to demonstrate creativity alongside their culinary skills with the support of kitchen assistants and volunteers within the department.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Working with fresh, seasonal ingredients to create well balanced and innovative meals.
• Demonstrating creativity in menus, meals for functions, and retail food to reflect the diversity of our patients, staff, and visitors.
• Undertaking opening and closing checks and completing relevant documentation in line with safer foods better business and requirements of environmental health inspections
• Where necessary, modifying dishes to meet patients’ dietary requirements.
• Introducing the service to all patients and families on the Inpatient Unit and discussing their individual requirements for each meal with attention to their appetite, preference, food allergies, religious and ethnic dietary needs.

The catering service operates over 7 days a week, including bank holidays, between the hours of 7am and 7.30pm.
If you are looking for a job where you can make a significant contribution to the overall catering experience, we would be delighted to hear from you.