Development Head Chef (Grade C)

Are you wanting the next challenge in your career where you can develop menu ideas, or a role where you can make a difference to our users experience and bring fresh ideas to a team, but also be part of the leadership team? We may just have the role for you!

Our Catering Team within AGH Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, are now looking for caring, committed, and flexible colleague to join Catering Team in the new and exciting role as Development Head Chef, working within our catering team.

You'll be working alongside our chefs and cooks, supporting them in delivering meals for our colleagues, visitors and patients, along with working with our Specialist Catering Dietitian on menu planning.

You will also have end to end line management responsibilities of a team of colleagues, this will include, training, onboarding, recruitment, sickness and performance management, other parts of your role with include working with the services manager with service development and profitability., AGH Solutions Catering Department is committed to providing a high quality standard of service to all of its patients and customers.

To provide a professional catering service, managing the production of food within the Catering Services department along with overseeing and developing our retail services

To ensure that set standards, procedures, and processes to produce high-quality food are adhered too and comply with all internal and external food production regulations and legislation.

A full understanding of the NHSE (NHS England) Food and Drink standards and their effects within the Trusts Food and Drink Strategy, alongside others such as the Trusts Green plan.

To supervise and support members of your direct and wider indirect team.

Liaising with members of the Catering Services Management team to provide a comprehensive customer journey for services users, staff, and visitors.

Working alongside the Specialist Catering Dietitian and Services Manager on the development and implementation of Trust menus, promoting food waste and green miles reduction, current food trends, and nutritional requirements.

Working with the Catering Management team in developing inhouse teams and upskilling through training plans, coaching and external courses.

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 NHS FT specifically.