Chef

Do you want to work as part of an innovative Catering Team within one of Europe’s leading and the UK’s best Cancer Care Centres?

We have a rare opportunity for you to join our inspirational catering team here at “the Christie” as a Chef within our Catering Team. Encouraging healthier lifestyles, our Team of Chefs is skilled in transforming fresh, seasonal ingredients into nutritious home‑cooked meals that place our patients, families, and colleagues “At the heart of what we do”. Do you have what it takes to provide exceptional food with exemplary customer service, with a smile, in a fast‑paced, caring environment?

• Delivering a high standard of food preparation
• Producing food to the highest standards
• Ensuring food and hygiene standards are met.
• Planning menus and ordering supplies as required.
• Dealing with direct patient queries.
• Delivering Dietary and Allergen requirements.
• Providing a personalised service as appropriate.
• Preparing, cooking, and serving of all foods to patients, staff and visitors.
• Providing high quality hospitality catering for internal and external events.
• Ensuring compliance of all Catering areas.
• Providing excellent customer service to patients, families, and colleagues.
• Ensuring NHS Food Standards are adhered to.

• Experience in large-scale catering, kitchen, or food service industry, preferably in a health care setting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment
• Attention to detail and ability to multitask
• Must hold City & Guilds 7061 & 2 or L2/L3 NVQ
• L2 Food Hygiene Certificate
• L2 HACCP Certification
• Availability to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and public holidays

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.

Maintain good relationships with ward and other departmental colleagues, both in telephone communications and direct verbal contact.

Provide clear catering and food production related information and documentation to colleagues, patient groups, dieticians, and stakeholders.

Work with the Executive Head Chef/Deputy Head Chef in identifying and managing the risks in the catering department. Highlight any problem areas regarding provision of service, faults in the fabric or maintenance of the department that will affect the service for any period.

Maintain relationships, effective networks, and proactive communication mechanisms with colleagues.

Knowledge Training and Experience

To carry out all work procedures…