Cook

Job Title: Cook

Trust Location: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Location: George Eliot Hospital, College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ

Shift Pattern: Monday- Friday 07:00 – 15:00 (37.5 hrs per week)

Pay: £12.45 per hour plus enhanced pay for weekends and bank holidays

About the Trust:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 300,000 people. The hospital opened in 1948.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, southwest Leicestershire, and north Coventry.

The Trust also provides a range of community services, delivered across Coventry, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire. These include sexual health and community dentistry services for the whole of Warwickshire as well as hosting the Blue-Sky Sexual Assault Referral Centre.

What you’ll be responsible for:

· Organizing and planning his/her work according to work schedules

· Preparing and cooking dishes to a planned menu, using standardized recipes at the prescribed times

· Exercising portion control

· Assisting in the service of food to patients and staff when required

· Accepting responsibility in the absence of senior members of staff

· Ensuring that working areas are kept in a clean and hygienic state and that good hygienic practices are observed in cooking processes

· Maintaining a clean and tidy appearance

· Co-operating with other members of staff to maintain the present high standard of catering.

· Maintaining good relationships with ward and other departmental staff eg in telephone communication and at the service counter

· Preparation of food for special functions

· Observing the regulations of the Health and Safety at Work Act

· Undertaking Training as required

The skills required are

· Experience in a chef / similar role

· Excellent customer service

· NHS experience – desirable but not essential

· Reliable and hard working

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract

Salary: £12.45 per hour

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Do you have City & Guilds or NVQ Level 2 in food preparation and cooking?

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 63151