Job Title: Chef

Location: Littlemore Mental Health Centre - OX4 4XN

Shift Pattern: Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am - 6pm

Pay: Friday £18.66 per hour, Saturday £24.26 per hour, Sunday £29.85 per hour.

Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

This is initially a temp role but the site has confirmed they may have permanent opportunities for the right person.

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust NHS Trust is the place for you.

What you'll be responsible for:

Ensure food production adheres to hygiene, health, and safety legislation.

Supervise the catering team, ensuring they work efficiently to produce nutritious and well-presented meals.

Oversee food preparation, cooking, and service, ensuring compliance with patient meal plans and dietary guidelines.

Contribute to menu planning and service enhancement, incorporating seasonal, dietary, and nutritional requirements.

Monitor stock levels, orders, and inventory management, ensuring cost control and minimal waste.

Ensure kitchen operations align with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), food safety standards, and productivity targets.

Maintain excellent customer and colleague relationships, ensuring professionalism and teamwork at all times.

You'll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

* An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS.

* A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation.

You'll have the following skills/experience:

* Experience of workign in a fresh cook kitchen

* Level 2 Food Hygiene certificate

* The ability to work both alone and as part of a small team.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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