Assistant Head Cook

Job overview

We are looking for candidates who are well organised, excellent communicators and are adaptable to both working in a high pressure environment and pace of a busy kitchen in both our West Suffolk main hospital site and our Community Hospital at Newmarket.

Candidates must have good attention to detail, able to work alone and be able to manage there time effectively.

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities would include.

• To be jointly responsible for the supervision and efficient organisation of the food production team.
• To line manage the Kitchen Portering Team
• To plan Rosters and staff accordance with safe staffing levels and workloads.
• To ensure that hygiene, food safety, food quality standards and safe working practices are adhered to within designated sections.
• Maintain records of attendance, input overtime on the Trusts Health Roster System.
• To work as part of a team providing a safe, high quality catering service for the Trust.
• To prepare and serve high quality nutritious food in accordance with the departments standard recipes, using fresh ingredients.
• To be able to maintain prolonged concentration when preparing and cooking serval different dishes in a busy and pressured environment while supervising others.
• To have a good understanding and apply this during the working practices with specific regard to HACCP and COSSH and follow the departments Food hygiene practices.
• To have knowledge and apply this during the working practices with specific regard to of IDDSI and follow this patient safety guidance.
• To offer guidance to ward staff in the absence of dietetic support (out of hours) with specific regard to allergen, consistency and dietary requirements for patient within the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification attached for more details on the job role.