Chef

Job Title: Chef

Trust: Stockport NHS foundation trust

Location: Stepping Hill hospital Poplar Grove Stockport SK2 7JE

Pay Rates: £11.67 per hour + Escalated rates over the weekend.

Shift Patterns: Monday- Sunday (5/7 days on rota) 6am-2pm/12pm-8pm (37.5)

We are no ordinary trust. We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. We are an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services to the people of Stockport, as well serving the populations of East Cheshire and the High Peak in North Derbyshire.

We offer a number of specialist services and play a key partnership role with Greater Manchester, Stockport and East Cheshire. With an annual budget of around £450 million we provide healthcare for residents in Stockport, East Cheshire and North Derbyshire as well as patients we treat from other boroughs in Greater Manchester who choose our services. We are working closely with East Cheshire NHS Trust to understand how some health and care services could be improved and sustained in the future. You can read more about this work here.

Stepping Hill Hospital first opened in 1905 and was a military hospital during the first World War. We now employ around 6,300 staff and were one of the first NHS trusts in the country to achieve foundation trust status in 2004.

We are a specialist `hub` center for emergency and high-risk general surgery, one of only four in Greater Manchester and covering the South East sector of our region.

Job Duties

· Preparing and cooking patient/ restaurant meals in our modern well-equipped kitchen.

. To maintain and improve on our current service.

· Planning meals and menus

· Preparing food

· Using kitchen equipment such as mixers

· Storing food correctly

What you'll need:

· Must have a Chef/Cooking experience.

· Excellent communication skills- both verbal and written

· Good communicator who can follow instructions

· Allergen Awareness

· Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

· Level 2 food hygiene.