Chef

Chef

Start Date: 2026-08-06

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GB, GL50 3

Application Deadline: 2026-09-13, 19:00:07.317

Job Details

• Hours: Part Time, 20 hours per week


• Shift Patterns: 3 days per week with shifts across a 7-day working week


• Kitchen Opening Hours: Monday - Sunday


• Location: Winfield Hospital

Summary

This role is based at Winfield Hospital, which is a leading private hospital on the outskirts of Gloucester. We have three fully equipped, laminar flow theatres, with a six-bedded recovery, a dedicated and JAG accredited endoscopy unit, and twelve outpatient consulting rooms with associated examination and treatment facilities. Other outpatient facilities include physiotherapy, pharmacy, audiology, radiology, ultrasound, MRI, and CT.

The Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity within our Catering department for an experienced Chef to join the team at Winfield Hospital. As our Chef, you will play a key role within a supportive and dedicated team, committed to delivering high-quality outcomes. Your skills and expertise will be valued, and you will contribute directly to the experience of our patients, staff, consultants, and visitors.

The role involves preparing, cooking, and serving food across the hospital. You will work flexibly across a 7-day shift pattern, ensuring a consistently high standard of service. A strong understanding of current food hygiene and safety regulations is essential, and you will be responsible for ensuring these standards are maintained at all times in both preparation and service.

What You'll Bring With You

• Proven experience working as a Chef


• Minimum Level 2 Food Hygiene certification


• A warm, considerate, and empathetic approach


• The ability to make decisions and use your own initiative


• Strong communication skills


• A flexible, positive attitude


• Experience or understanding of the IDDSI framework (desirable, but not essential)

Why Join Us?

At Ramsay Health Care UK, our people are at the heart of our success. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance, and career development, because we're people caring for people:

• Health, Wellbeing & Financial Security: Private Medical Cover, with the option to add your partner and dependants, Discounted Bupa Dental Insurance, Life Assurance (Death in Service) x3 your base salary, Private Pension, with Ramsay matching up to 5% after a qualifying period, Employee Assistance Programme


• Work-Life Balance: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell additional days, Flexible shift patterns, Family friendly policies including enhanced parental leave, Volunteer leave to support causes that matter to you, Career Development & Recognition, Training and Development via the Ramsay Academy, Colleague recognition programme


• Lifestyle & Everyday Perks: Access to our benefits platform, offering a wide range of discounts, Cycle2Work scheme, Subsidised staff restaurant, Free parking on site

About Us

Ramsay Health Care UK is a well-established global hospital group with over 50 years' experience. We operate in 11 countries with 77,000 staff who treat 8 million patients each year. Renowned within the healthcare industry, we are one of the leading providers of independent hospital services in England, with a strong, long-standing relationship with the NHS.

We value positive, "can do" attitudes and believe in making a difference. Our employees are Ramsay. The skills and commitment of our staff form the foundation of our success. Our culture of 'The Ramsay Way' recognizes that people—staff and doctors—are our most important asset, which has been key to our ongoing success.

We prioritize safety through initiatives like 'Speak Up for Safety' and ensure the patient is at the center of everything we do. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and support the UK's Armed Forces and Reservists, having achieved the Silver Award as part of the MOD's Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme.

All successful candidates will receive safeguarding training appropriate to their role, and the position is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Our mission is to deliver the best care, driven by a genuine commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups. We share a collective responsibility to uphold these standards in our work.

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patients, staff, consultants and visitors.The role involves preparing, cooking and serving food across the hospital. You will work flexibly across a 7-day shift pattern, ensuring a consistently high standard of service.A strong understanding of current food hygiene and safety regulations is essential, and you will be responsible for ensuring these standards are maintained at all times in both preparation and service.What you'll bring with you:Proven experience working as a ChefMinimum Level 2 Food Hygiene certificationA warm, considerate and empathetic approachThe ability to make decisions and use your own initiativeStrong communication skillsA flexible, positive attitudeExperience or understanding of the IDDSI framework (desirable, but not essential)Why join us?At Ramsay Health Care UK, our people are at the heart of our success. Our benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance and career development, because we're people caring for people:Health, Wellbeing &
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