Chef - Broadgreen Hospital

The post holder has a responsibility for the provision of a high quality catering service. The post holder may work in any area within LUFT which offers a catering service, this can include patients feeding, Staff dining area, any of the trusts retail outlets and hospitality. The preparation and service of meals to patients of LUFT and any other areas where the trust has an SLA. The trust operates a menu with a number of selections, but if needed may need to prepare special meals to ensure the patients receive quality meals.The post holder must clean their area during and after service. Ensuring that the quality of food produced is to the high standard from the catering department and ensuring that the Catering departments HACCP policy is adhered to at all time. Ensuring that food waste is kept to the minimum. The post holder will have a good knowledge of special and therapeutic diets as well as dietary needs including Vegetarian and Vegan, Food Preparation - Preparing any food required to produce the dishes required Cooking and Service Check food for correct temperature before service. And record on the trusts HACCP sheets. Take appropriate action is food fails Check the quality of food to comply with the Trusts standards. Take appropriate action if the food fails Have knowledge of special therapeutic diets and be able to respond to a request for the provision of a special diet at short notice. Observe good hygiene practises and keep up to date with current food hygiene and training legislation. Ensure the documentation for the trusts HCCP policy is completed, and any fails rectified and retested

• Food Hygiene qualification
• Chef qualification
• Good communication (written & verbal)
• Approachable
• Organised
• Reliable, 3 GCSE or Equivalent
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent in catering
• CIEH level 2 food hygiene
• Allergen Training
Desirable criteria
• Must be prepared to study for CIEH level 3 food hygiene certificate
• Must be prepared to study for Level 2 Award in Identifying and Controlling Food Allergen Risks, Demonstrable experience in a catering environment
• Experience of working within a team
Desirable criteria
• Experience in an industrial catering environment, Knowledge of special dietary requirements.
• Knowledge of cooking skills.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond., The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.