# Weekend Chef

**Company**: Elysium Healthcare
**Location**: Catford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £23560.00
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a skilled Weekend Chef to join our team at Bromley House in Catford. As a Weekend Chef, you will play a vital role in crafting daily meals for service users, staff, and visitors. You will work 16 hours a week, weekends only, and be responsible for supporting the Head Chef, maintaining good food storage procedures, preparing and cooking meals to a high standard, and participating in food costings.

Responsibilities:

- Support the Head Chef for the day-to-day running of the kitchen

- Maintain good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures

- Prepare, plan, and cook meals to a consistently high standard

- Serve service users, staff, and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous manner

- Participate in food costings through effective cost control procedures

- Adhere to the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ standards and record keeping

- Adhere strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times

- Take full shift responsibility for the catering operation

- Assist the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and complement healthy eating guidelines

- Correctly fill out all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP)

Requirements:

- 18 years or older

- GCSE or equivalent English

- City & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking

- Basic Food Hygiene (essential)

- Intermediate Food Hygiene (desirable)

- Previous experience in a similar environment

- Previous experience in delivering a service on mass

- Menu planning, costing, ordering, stock control, and budget experience

Benefits:

- Annual base salary of £23,560 pro-rata

- Equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave

- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals

- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate

- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance

- Access to Blue Light Card

- Life Assurance

- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it

- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion

- Enhanced Maternity Package

- Pension contribution

- Free meals and onsite free parking

## Skills

### Required
- Food Preparation
- Cooking
- Food Hygiene
- Menu Planning
- Costing
- Ordering
- Stock Control
- Budgeting

### Nice to have
- Intermediate Food Hygiene

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