Head Chef

As Head Chef, you will:

• Lead and inspire a large, dynamic kitchen team
• Drive menu development, innovation, and food quality standards
• Ensure efficient, safe, and compliant kitchen operations
• Play a key role in maintaining and building on our award-winning reputation, Oversee kitchen organisation and stock control, ensuring quality, quantity, and correct documentation. Maintain high standards of food quality, presentation, and adherence to recipes for patient meals. Coordinate with catering teams, ward staff, and other departments to ensure smooth service. Monitor and record food temperatures and ensure compliance with food hygiene and safety regulations. Uphold health and safety standards, including reporting faults and enforcing security procedures. Ensure staff follow uniform and identification policies. Lead team briefings and support departmental leadership, including deputising for the Head of Patient Catering when required.
  
  We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice