Cook
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Cook to join our catering team at Staveley Health Centre. This role is crucial for supporting patient health, wellbeing, and overall experience through high-quality catering services. You will be responsible for preparing, cooking, and serving nutritious and appetising meals, ensuring food safety and meeting individual dietary requirements. The role involves working every other weekend.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare, cook and serve nutritious and appetising meals.
- Ensure food is produced safely, presented to a high standard and meets individual patient dietary requirements.
- Ensure compliance with food hygiene legislation, temperature controls and safe systems of work.
- Maintain excellent standards of cleanliness and food safety.
- Provide advice and information on menus and dietary needs to clinical and catering colleagues.
Essential criteria
- City and Guilds NVQ 3 or equivalent in hospitality and catering
- Basic Food Hygiene
Desirable criteria
- Basic Health and Safety
- Knowledge of work procedures, practices and equipment for a catering service including advanced food hygiene processes
- Previous experience within a catering environment with a range of meals
- Knowledge of portion control and importance of nutrition
- Experience of working with the client group relevant to the setting.
- Experience of leading others
- Knowledge and understanding of special dietary and cultural needs, including planning appropriate menus
- Good communication skills - written/verbal
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team
- City and Guilds NVQ 3 or equivalent in hospitality and catering
- Basic Food Hygiene
- Basic Health and Safety
- Knowledge of work procedures, practices and equipment for a catering service including advanced food hygiene processes
- Previous experience within a catering environment with a range of meals
- Knowledge of portion control and importance of nutrition
- Experience of working with the client group relevant to the setting.
- Experience of leading others
- Knowledge and understanding of special dietary and cultural needs, including planning appropriate menus
- Good communication skills - written/verbal
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
Cook
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Cook to join our catering team at Staveley Health Centre, playing an important role in supporting the health, wellbeing and overall patient experience through the delivery of a high-quality catering service.
Looking for someone to work every other weekend.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the preparation, cooking and service of nutritious and appetising meals, ensuring that food is produced safely, presented to a high standard and meets individual patient dietary requirements, including therapeutic and special diets. or working with a degree of responsibility and initiative, the Cook will ensure compliance with food hygiene legislation, temperature controls and safe systems of work, while maintaining excellent standards of cleanliness and food safety. You will work closely with clinical and catering colleagues, providing advice and information on menus and dietary needs and acting as a key link between the catering service and clinical area to ensure patients receive the right meal, at the right time and to the right standard.
About us
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care
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