Chef de Partie

About St Joseph's Hospice

St Joseph’s Hospice was founded in 1905 by the Religious Sisters of Charity who retain an interest in the oversight of the Hospice. The Hospice is working to achieve Vision 2024, which has five key strands: patients, enterprise, estates, funding and fundraising, and human resources. The Hospice seeks to be an outstanding provider of palliative and end of life care. Each employee is critical to delivering and maintain those standards in accordance with the Hospice’s core values.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef de Partie in our Catering team at St Joseph’s Hospice. As Chef de Partie, you will be ideally used to working in a busy catering location and as well as working with fresh food and have some knowledge of palliative care catering needs or having worked within the healthcare sector. The post requires an enthusiastic and confident approach where as a member of the team, you will ensure that both our patients and retails customers’ needs are exceeded.

The Chef de Partie shares responsibility for the safe and quality production of food and services within the Hospice Catering department by carrying out duties in the central Production Kitchen, Restaurant/Café, and ward kitchens. These duties include production of fresh foods, cleaning of premises and equipment, pre-preparation of food items prior to service, and preparing cooked meals for in-patients at lunch and supper.

The post holder will have day-to-day supervisory responsibility for overseeing the work of junior staff members when the Group Chef Manager is not present including catering assistants/porters, volunteers and apprentices. The post holder will also have responsibility to ensure that site stock is reasonably safeguarded in regards to both secure storage and safety. The post holder is also responsible for ensuring that all site specific goods, recipes and menus are produced within set financial targets and set quality KPI’s.

Salary: £29,318 - £33,390

Working pattern: 5 over 7 days (work five days out of seven on a rota basis, to include weekends, bank holidays and religious festivals.)

Deadline: 30th March 2025