Head Chef (Development) | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,199 - £34,876 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, SM2 5PT |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7427710/282-F806 |
Summary
We are looking for a Head chef to work predominantly based on our Sutton site in Surrey, primarily to lead on improvements and efficiencies in our friendly hard-working team. A passion for cooking tasty, fresh, healthy food is a must! The areas of work will include supporting the catering team by helping with service and preparing/serving/cooking items for our patients, staff, and visitors. Ensuring that our high standards are maintained and improved. Assisting in ensuring the smooth operation in all areas of catering services including wards, functions, and retail areas.
Safeguarding our HACCP processes and procedures and monitoring for consistent and continued effectiveness. It would be beneficial if you have worked in a hospital catering environment (or similar) previously (but this is not essential), have great customer care, you have good IT skills, are self-motivated, possess excellent organisational skills and have plenty of experience of working as part of a team, across two sites. It would be ideal if you have worked in a similar role, bringing experience, knowledge, and proven leadership.
To provide and maintain the highest level of catering service possible. Retain the safe production and monitoring of meals and catering services. Ensure that our high standards are maintained and improved. Safeguarding hygienic and safe working practices are carried out by all staff, and to monitor the standards set within the department on a day-to-day basis. Ensure that food for staff, patients, visitors and functions is of the highest possible standard on the NHS Wards, Private care areas, Crèche (Sutton Only) and all Retail areas commensurate with financial constraints.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
• The Responsible for ensuring a safe and efficient catering service in the absence of management.
• Manage all operational aspects of the catering service in the kitchen on a day-to-day basis including the distribution of all foodstuffs produced and provided.
• Implement and review with the management all control systems for the service, using appropriate recognised techniques, to ensure that good practices prevail and exercises sufficient monitoring and controls to ensure that the HACCP plan and all others are adhered to.
• Ensure appropriate recruitment and selection of staff and the compilation of cost-effective staff rotas.
• Formulate and implements appropriate monitoring packages for the business of the service. Highlights any cost improvement, income generation and change of practice ideas. Maintain good security practices with reference to cash handling and stock controls.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Sep 2025
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