Job overview

You’ll be responsible for producing high-quality meals on time, meeting patients’ and colleagues nutritional needs and maintaining the highest standards of food safety and hygiene. You’ll work alongside a friendly and dedicated team where everyone plays their part in delivering an excellent catering service.

Every meal matters, and as one of our Chefs, you’ll have the opportunity to make a positive contribution to patients’ experience, recovery and wellbeing.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their food, enjoys working as part of a team and shares our commitment to providing a safe, welcoming and professional service.

As a Chef, you will play an important part in delivering a safe, high-quality and enjoyable food service for our patients, colleagues and visitors.

This is a varied and rewarding role for a Chef who is passionate about food, enjoys working as part of a team and wants to use their skills to make a genuine difference to the experience and wellbeing of our patients.

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Preparing, cooking and presenting high-quality meals in line with agreed menus, portion controls, budgets, food safety requirements and company procedures.
• Producing meals for patients with special dietary requirements, working closely with Dietitians, nursing colleagues and the wider team to ensure individual nutritional and dietary needs are met.
• Supporting effective allergen management, including recipe development, food labelling and the safe preparation of meals for patients with specific dietary requirements.
• Acting as a key point of contact for special diet requests when required.
• Contributing ideas and culinary expertise to continuously improve our food offer, recipes and the overall experience for patients and customers.
• Maintaining excellent standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, health and safety and COSHH compliance throughout the kitchen and associated catering areas.
• Completing and accurately recording all required food safety checks, including temperature and cleaning records, and taking appropriate corrective action where required.
• Monitoring and recording food waste, helping to identify opportunities to minimise waste and make the best use of resources.

For full list of main responsibilities please see the attached Job description document.

Working for our organisation

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.