Job overview

The Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit is an 8 bedded unit providing specialist inpatient mental health care for up to 8 women during the perinatal period.

This is an exciting opportunity for a cook to work for us 15 hours per week.  We will provide a full induction on recruitment and regular peer support.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• gym membership
• NHS discounts and many more.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be supporting us with providing meals for our service users.  This will include meal planning, buying the food, daily preparation, cooking and serving.

There will be a requirement to work flexibly within this role with some weekend work.

You will have autonomy in the development of bespoke menus in collaboration with the clinical team and mothers on the unit. Delivering high quality meals that promote optimum physical health to inpatients, weaning babies, family and staff on request with support of the dietician.

You will liaise with food suppliers, local supermarkets and independent stores to meal plan cost effectively within an allocated budget each week.

You will work directly with the mothers and clinical team to ensure individual dietary requirements and likes are met. You will also deliver health promotion groups focussed on nutrition and culinary skills. Positive previous examples have been smoothie groups or simple quick and nutritious recipe ideas for all of the family.

You will have autonomy to offer creativity to the role. 

You will supervise a cook, providing oversight, direction and safe management of the catering facility. Working together you will deliver meals on a shift rotation ensuring meal provision to the MBU over 14 hours per week. Typical working hours are from 10:30 – 18:30 providing lunch and evening meals.. 

Working for our organisation

The position offers the opportunity for creativity, job satisfaction and fulfilment for the ideal candidate which we believe sets it apart from traditional chef roles. You will be welcomed into the team, with a valuable role to play in the support and treatment of women and their families during a vulnerable time.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.