Chef – North Devon District Hospital
Barnstaple
37.5 hours per week
£12.75 per hour
Are you passionate about creating nutritious, high‑quality food that truly makes adifference? Join our dedicated catering team atNorth DevonDistrict Hospital,where your skills will directly support patients, staff, and visitors everysingle day.
This is more than a kitchen job — it’s a chance to useyour talent to improve the hospital experience for thousands of people.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Chef in our main kitchen, you’ll play a key rolein delivering safe, delicious, and consistent meals across patient services,staff dining, and visitor catering. Your day‑to‑dayresponsibilities will include:
Preparing high‑quality,standardised meals in line with Food Safety and Health & Safety legislation
Producing meals for patients, including special dietsand nutritional supplements
Supporting retail catering, including hot snack barand carving duties
Maintaining excellent food quality, portion control,and presentation
Ensuring efficient kitchen operations, reducing waste,and promoting sustainability
Maintaining security of stores, equipment, and kitchenareas
Assisting with new starter “buddy” training
Working collaboratively with the catering team todeliver outstanding service
What We’re Looking For
You’ll thrive in this role if you bring:
Essential:
Commercial food preparation experience
Ability to work effectively as part of a team
Strong organisational skills
Good numeracy and literacy
Excellent communication skills
Awareness of Food Safety & Health & Safetylegislation
High standards of personal hygiene
City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Desirable:• Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate
What Success Looks Like
Excellent patient satisfaction feedback
High PLACE food scores
5‑starLocal Authority Food Safety rating
Strong compliance with safety and quality standards
Why Join Us?
Working in a hospital kitchen means your food haspurpose. Every meal you prepare supports recovery, comfort, and wellbeing.You’ll be part of a friendly, supportive team that values quality, teamwork,and pride in what we do.
You’ll also benefit from:
A stable, secure role in a respected healthcareenvironment
Opportunities for training, development, andprogression
A positive, inclusive workplace culture
Full uniform and training provided
About Sodexo
AtSodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build abetter life for all.As the global leader in services that improve theQuality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumerseach day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services,Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We arecommitted to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendlyemployer.We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diversevariety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities.We encourage ouremployees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, SodexoParents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together,Generations and Origins.
We’rea Disability Confident Leader employer.We’re committed to changingattitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chanceto fulfil their aspirations.We run a Disability Confident interviewscheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteriafor the job.
Clickhereto read more about what we do to promote aninclusive culture.
SodexoDisability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins