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Behind every excellent patient experience is a dedicated team, including our catering professionals, who play a vital role in supporting patient wellbeing and recovery.\nAs a Chef de Partie, you'll take ownership of a designated kitchen section and help deliver high-quality food across patient dining, staff catering, private dining, hospitality services, and events. Working within a hospital environment, you'll combine culinary expertise with a passion for service, ensuring every meal is safe, nutritious, and presented to the highest standard.\nHow you'll help us make health happen\nRun your designated kitchen section during preparation and service, maintaining consistency, quality, and presentation standards.\n\nPrepare, cook, and present dishes across patient meals, staff dining, hospitality, private dining, meetings, and events.\n\nSupport the delivery of services across multiple food outlets, adapting to varying service requirements and volumes.\n\nEnsure excellent mise en place, portion control, stock rotation, and waste management within your section.\n\nWork alongside senior chefs to develop specials, seasonal menus, and continuous improvements to food offerings.\n\nPrepare meals that meet a variety of dietary, medical, cultural, religious, and lifestyle requirements.\n\nMaintain high standards of food presentation, ensuring dishes are produced consistently and accurately.\n\nCommunicate effectively with colleagues, hospitality teams, and ward teams to ensure smooth service delivery.\n\nSupport, mentor, and guide Commis Chefs and Kitchen Porters within your section.\n\nComplete all opening and closing duties, cleaning schedules, and handovers.\n\nFollow all food safety, allergen management, infection prevention, and health & safety procedures to ensure a safe environment for patients, colleagues, and visitors.\n\nKey Skills / Qualifications\nPrevious experience as a Chef de Partie or an experienced Demi Chef de Partie looking to progress.\n\nProven ability to manage a kitchen section independently in a fast-paced, high-quality environment.\n\nStrong knowledge of food safety, HACCP principles, allergen management, and health & safety requirements.\n\nExcellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise effectively under pressure.\n\nStrong knowledge of stock management, food storage, portion control, and waste reduction.\n\nSkilled in a range of cooking techniques with a keen eye for detail and presentation.\n\nAbility to follow recipes, specifications, and contribute to menu development.\n\nExcellent communication and teamwork skills.\n\nComfortable completing food safety documentation and kitchen records accurately.\n\nFlexible approach to working hours to meet operational requirements.\n\nDesirable:\nExperience within healthcare, hospitality, hotel, or other highly regulated environments.\n\nLevel 2 Food Safety qualification or equivalent.\n\nExperience delivering fine dining, hospitality services, or banqueting/events.\n\nExperience supporting audits, compliance checks, and kitchen quality standards.\n\nPrevious experience mentoring or training junior kitchen team members\n\nBenefits\nOur benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing.\nWe support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.\nJoining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:\nEquivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.\n\nBupa health insurance as a benefit in kind\n\nAn enhanced pension plan and life insurance\n\nSupport with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work\n\nDiscounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass\n\nVarious family friendly benefits\n\nFree onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work\n\nOpportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony.\n\nWhy Bupa?\nWe’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.\nWe encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.\nBupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. 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