Chef/Cook
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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
This role is for a part-time Chef/Cook to join the Catering team at Kingsway Hospital and Radbourne Unit. The main duties involve preparing and cooking nutritious meals for patients, staff, and visitors, ensuring food hygiene and safety standards are met. The successful candidate will also handle general cleaning duties and may need to work flexible hours to cover colleagues.
Essential criteria
- Either City & Guilds 706/1 & 706/2 or Level 2 NVQ Diploma in food production or relevant experience
- Experience for cooking nutritious meals using fresh ingredients in a busy kitchen.
- To have knowledge of food hygiene and health & safety legislation
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of special dietary requirements and modified texture diets
- Education
- Either City & Guilds 706/1 & 706/2 or Level 2 NVQ Diploma in food production or relevant experience
- Experience for cooking nutritious meals using fresh ingredients in a busy kitchen.
- To have knowledge of food hygiene and health & safety legislation
- Knowledge of special dietary requirements and modified texture diets
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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Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic part-time cook to work as part of our friendly Catering team that work between Kingsway Hospital and the Radbourne Unit, Royal Derby Hospital, providing quality fresh cooked meals to our patients, staff and visitors.
Other jobs include preparing sandwiches, salads, hot and cold puddings and general cleaning duties to maintain the required hygiene standards that are essential in a busy food production kitchen.
You should also have the ability to work flexible hours at times when it may be necessary to provide cover for colleagues during annual leave or sickness periods at our Radbourne and Kingsway Hospital sites.
Main duties of the job
To prepare and cook nutritional, well-balanced meals from fresh for patients, staff and visitors on a daily basis.
To correctly identify allergens in foods that are being prepared for patients, staff and visitors.
To understand special dietary needs, for health, follow texture modified diets under the IDDSI guidelines, religious or cultural reasons and to communicate special diet information to customers
To follow recipes accurately, to identify allergens in food and to ensure correct number of portions are produced for correct consistency, flavour and texture.
The assessment of good portion control, managing food waste.
To ensure that all Health, Safety and Food Hyg
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