Ready for a chef role that lets you unleash your creativity? If so, join Chadwick Lodge as a Chef working alongside a dedicated team.\nBecome a crucial part of the kitchen team working 37.5 hours a week, crafting daily meals for service users, staff and visitors. Dive into food preparation and elevate your role by providing guidance and training to your peers.\n\nHere’s the exciting part- the calendar is buzzing with activities, events and special occasions which you’ll also cater for.

From World Food Day to festive moments like Christmas and Easter, you get to infuse your own flair and keep things exciting.\n\nIt’s a calm and pleasurable working environment, where you’ll be able to manage your workload and enjoy creating delicious meals. There’s a great social aspect to this role where you can interact with people outside the kitchen regularly. \n\nJust imagine… great job satisfaction, home in time for dinner every night and two days off a week. Now that’s a recipe for a balanced work-life combo.\n\nAs a Chef you will be:\n\nSupporting the Head Chef for the day-to-day running of the kitchen. \n\nMaintaining good food storage procedures and stock rotation according to established procedures.\n\nPreparing, planning and cooking meals to a consistently high standard, taking account of any special requests or dietary requirements within the unit.\n\nServing service users, staff and visitors with food and beverage in a professional and courteous services manner.\n\nPreparing and producing foods for conferences and banquets.\n\nParticipating in food costings through effective cost control procedures.\n\nAdhering to the ‘Safer Food Better Business’ standards and record keeping.\n\nAdhering strictly to Food Hygiene Regulations and other safety procedures at all times.\n\nTaking full shift responsibility for the catering operation\n\nAssisting the Head Chef by researching and creating new menus ensuring meals are of a high quality and compliment healthy eating guidelines.\n\nCorrectly filing of all paperwork in relation to the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) i.e.

Fridge temperatures, food temperature logs and cleaning schedules\n\nTo be successful in this role, you'll need:\n\nTo be 18 years or older\n\nGCSE or equivalent English\n\nCity & Guilds 706/1 and 2 (or equivalent) Basic Food Preparation Cooking\n\nBasic Food Hygiene (essential)\n\nIntermediate Food hygiene (desirable)\n\nPrevious experience in a similar environment\n\nPrevious experience in delivering a service on mass\n\nMenu planning, costing, ordering, stock control and budget experience\n\n Where you will be working:\n\nLocation: Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS\n\nYou will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, a medium and low secure services providing specialist treatment programmes for service users who have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and have a history of offending behaviour.\n\nThe service offer a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital’s consultant-led multidisciplinary team has a wealth of clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and to maximise the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service users.\n\nChadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability in order to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible\n\nWhat You’ll Get\n\nAt Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:\n\n· Annual base salary of £26,325\n\n· The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.\n\n· Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals\n\n· Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!\n\n· Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance\n\n· Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts\n\n· Life Assurance, for added peace of mind\n\n· Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.\n\n· 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be\n\n· Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time\n\n· Pension contribution, to help secure your future\n\n· Free/subsidised meals and onsite/local free parking\n\nAbout your next employer:\n\nElysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care.

With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.\n\nElysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.\n\nElysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure