Chef Manager
| Posting date: | 10 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,520 to £30,633 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 September 2025 |
| Location: | Worthing, PO19 1RQ |
| Company: | St Barnabas Hospices |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 311 |
Summary
About the role
To manage the Catering team and services for the Adult Hospice within an agreed budget, ensuring that all statutory and environmental regulations are met. To coordinate and contribute to the preparation and cooking of food for patients, staff, the coffee shop and vending machine.
Essential criteria
- To plan menus, ensuring the correct balance and nutritional content, liaising with the nursing team regarding patients’ requirements when necessary.
- To have knowledge or experience of food prepared for patients with swallowing difficulties, preferably with a knowledge of the IDDSI framework.
- To prepare and cook meals daily, maintaining the quality, content and presentation of all food.
- To delegate tasks to relevant members of the Catering team to fulfil the catering requirements for each shift.
- To ensure that patients menus, visitor menus, and staff menus are printed weekly with all food allergens included and forwarded to all relevant areas.
- To plan and coordinate provision of lunches for education, events or meetings as required
- To periodically identify methods of seeking feedback from patients, visitors and staff regarding the quality-of-service provision.
- To liaise with the Nursing team regarding patients’ nutrition, improvements for patients’ catering needs
- To manage the rota ensuring adequate staff cover for all shifts including evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays and the Christmas and New Year period
- To help with covering shifts in the kitchen when needed, including weekend days and to work a share of Bank Holidays including over the Christmas and New Year period
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- On-site education support and study leave opportunities
- Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
- Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
- Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in Service
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.