Chef

Belong Chester, opened May 2022, and provides high-specification accommodation and world-leading specialist dementia and nursing support across six extended family sized households. The village also includes independent living apartments and outreach services available to people in the wider community, including the organisation's award-winning home care, and specialist day care services. As a pioneering concept, the village also has an intergenerational nursery, designed to offer shared learning experiences and opportunities for children, families and older people, and will develop into a blueprint for intergenerational practice.

The Belong catering services are an integral part of our villages, so we need the very best Chefs who will ensure that customers come back time and time again. As a Chef, you’ll be working with the catering team to provide our customers with experiences that are memorable for all the right reasons.

Our Chefs are responsible for ensuring the smooth day to day running of the kitchen and catering services within the village and most importantly for producing food that is delicious as well as nutritious and attractively presented. We see good food and hospitality as the glue that holds a successful event or special occasion together.

You should have the kind of personality that wants to achieve at all times, and the skills to ensure that food is presented fresh, appetising and tasty every time.

There will be opportunities for your to develop the bistro from day one, after all, the more ideas you come up with for improving our menu and helping the Bistro and Catering Manager to increase business, the more you can develop your role. Belong has excellent learning and development opportunities in place to help you do so, plus a range of attractive benefits.

The pay for this role is £12.50 p/h

This role is for 16 hours per week

As part of our recruitment process you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check. Their code of conduct can be found on the following link that you can copy and post to your web browser if you wish to read:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice

Requirements

• Demonstrates qualities to deliver belong vision and values appropriate to this level.
• Good communication skills with the ability to communicate to a variety of people with different needs.
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills to be able to control stocks and follow procedures.
• Prioritises own and others work ensuring completed to the required standard and on time.
• Remains calm under pressure and able to maintain a relaxed atmosphere in the kitchen and bistro.
• Good customer care skills.
• Basic IT skills to be able to process orders.
• Ability to undertake moving & handling of loads including the operation of commercial catering equipment.
• Experience of catering for large numbers e.g. 50 or more.
• Good understanding of the dietary needs of older people or people with a physical, cognitive or sensory impairment.
• Intermediate Food Hygiene Certificate.
• Basic Food Hygiene certificate.
• Good understanding of H&S Regulations, COSHH and HACCP.
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent in Professional Cooking.
• Reliable and able to fulfil contracted hours and work patterns e.g. days and weekends

Benefits

• Paid DBS*
• Enhanced pay for Bank Holidays
• Every other weekend off
• Real Living Wage regardless of age
• Medi cash
• Refer a friend scheme
• Death in Service payment to a beneficiary of your choosing
• Paid induction (3 days 9am to 4.30pm) & paid training on site
• Access to on site gym
• Subsidised meals in our Bistro
• Access to Employment Assistance programme
  • o Confidential Counselling, Mental Health, Finance support
• Full PPE and LFT & PCR tests provided on site
• Access to Gain a NVQ
• Career Progression
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Free Wi-Fi
• Full Support, shadow shifts and training

*DBS as per our terms and conditions