# Assistant Chef

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Woodingdean
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: From £12.59 up to £14.10 per hour
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an Assistant Chef to join our team at Dean Wood Care Home in Brighton. As an Assistant Chef, you will play a crucial role in creating and delivering an excellent dining experience for our residents.

**About the Role:** You will use your passion for cooking and fresh ingredients to create varied and nutritional menus in line with dietary needs and preferences of our residents. You will put forward ideas to deliver an excellent dining experience, helping our residents to feel at home. You will also train and manage the kitchen team in prepping, cooking and serving of food, adhere to COSHH and HACCP guidelines, company policies and procedures, budgets, managing orders and deliveries, and cater for special events or seasonal activities.

**Responsibilities:**

- Using your passion for cooking and fresh ingredients to create varied and nutritional menus in line with dietary needs and preferences of our residents

- Putting forward ideas to deliver an excellent dining experience, helping our residents to feel at home

- Training and managing the kitchen team in prepping, cooking and serving of food

- Adhering to COSHH and HACCP guidelines, company policies and procedures, budgets, managing orders and deliveries

- Catering for special events or seasonal activities, such as summer fetes, Christmas parties and birthdays (as required)

**Requirements:**

- A passion for cooking with previous experience working in a fresh food kitchen and relevant hygiene certificates

- Open to new ideas, with an innovative approach to cooking whilst always adhering to high standards

- Enjoy communicating with others and cherish the little moments with our residents, sharing your love of food with them

**Benefits:**

- My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support – all available via one phone number 24/7

- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350

- Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!

- Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes

- We offer a range of Bupa pension plans – find out more on our career site

- Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site

- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

- A good work-life balance meaning you can be happy and productive at work and also have time for yourself and your friends & family

## Skills

### Required
- cooking
- fresh ingredients
- hygiene certificates
- kitchen management

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