Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
The Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit is an 8 bedded unit providing specialist inpatient mental health care for up to 8 women during the perinatal period.
This is an exciting opportunity for a cook to work for us 15 hours per week. We will provide a full induction on recruitment and regular peer support.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
* NHS pension
* a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* staff physio service
* gym membership
* NHS discounts and many more.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be supporting us with providing meals for our service users. This will include meal planning, buying the food, daily preparation, cooking and serving.
There will be a requirement to work flexibly within this role with some weekend work.
You will have autonomy in the development of bespoke menus in collaboration with the clinical team and mothers on the unit. Delivering high quality meals that promote optimum physical health to inpatients, weaning babies, family and staff on request with support of the dietician.
You will liaise with food suppliers, local supermarkets and independent stores to meal plan cost effectively within an allocated budget each week.
You will work directly with the mothers and clinical team to ensure individual dietary requirements and likes are met. You will also deliver health promotion groups focussed on nutrition and culinary skills. Positive previous examples have been smoothie groups or simple quick and nutritious recipe ideas for all of the family.
You will have autonomy to offer creativity to the role.
You will supervise a cook, providing oversight, direction and safe management of the catering facility. Working together you will deliver meals on a shift rotation ensuring meal provision to the MBU over 14 hours per week. Typical working hours are from 10:30 - 18:30 providing lunch and evening meals..
Working for our organisation
The position offers the opportunity for creativity, job satisfaction and fulfilment for the ideal candidate which we believe sets it apart from traditional chef roles. You will be welcomed into the team, with a valuable role to play in the support and treatment of women and their families during a vulnerable time.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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If you require any further information please contact
Ward Manager Justine Goodale 01603 786745
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* City and Guilds Level 2 or working towards NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent
* Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Level 2 Food Safety Certificate or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Dietetic qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of service delivery within a catering environment.
* Experience in nutrition, cookery, hospitality and catering principles.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a healthcare setting
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to provide and receive routine information to inform colleagues and patients, which may include informing on menu changes.
* Ability to demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills
* To support and offer advice to staff in relation to food safety standards, service delivery and health and safety issues.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Working knowledge of Food Safety legislation, The Food Act, Food Hygiene Regulations, Food Hygiene Temperatures Control Regulations
* Understanding of Health and Safety issues relating to the kitchen and cleaning, including food safety/COSHH.
* Knowledge of and ability to provide food allergen information
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of NHS/Trust Food Hygiene Codes of Practice.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £16 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* MBU Chef Job Description (PDF, 616.3KB)
* Values Based Recruitment - Candidates Guide (PDF, 360.6KB)
* Reasonable Adjustments - NSFT (PDF, 197.5KB)