Job Description:
Job DescriptionJob Title: Chef De Partie
Location: Richmond Village Letcombe Regis, South Street, Oxfordshire, OX12 9RG
Salary: From £13.65 per hour
Contract: Bank Contract - Flexible hours, only picking up days that suit your availability. Shifts between 07:00-20:00 - With no late nights, it offers an excellent work-life balance, allowing you to dedicate time to both your professional growth and personal life
We make health happen
At Bupa, we offer essential support when it matters most. Richmond Villages Letcombe Regis provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives. We take pride in our carehome.co.uk review score of 9.6 out of 10.
We're looking for a Chef de Partie to join our team working in our brand new kitchen with all new state of the art equipment. Our Chef de Partie's are culinary artists who brings joy and comfort through food. They play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for residents by providing nutritious, delicious meals tailored to diverse dietary needs. With a passion for gastronomy and a heart for service, they create menus that excite the palate while ensuring each dish supports the health and well-being of the residents. Their expertise is not just in cooking but in crafting experiences that honour the individuality and preferences of those they serve, making them an indispensable part of the care home team.
You'll help us make health happen by
Catering to residents across the Village which comprises of the care home, catering for serviced suites, villagers who have booked a meal in the Restaurant/Spa or for meals to be taken across to their apartments or for other specific events
Prepare and cook food in accordance with food hygiene regulations
Be aware of residents, villagers and Wellness Spa clients' dietary needs - responding to their comments and requests in respect of the menu
Be involved in the preparation and serving of the meals on the hotplate, as required
Ensuring that all food is used within the prescribed period, with particular attention paid to perishable (high risk) goods
Ensuring a welcoming, safe and compliant environment for our residents to dine in
Helping to maintain a clean and hygienic working area.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
Passionate about food, you'll have experience working in a professional kitchen, ideally catering for customers with special dietary requirements. An understanding of health and safety procedures, ideally with an NVQ or equivalent City & Guilds and CIEH Level 2 Food Safety Award or Equivalent. Open to new ideas, you'll have an innovative yet organised approach to cooking, always adhering to high standards and remaining calm during a busy service. You'll enjoy working with others, working together to create and deliver an excellent dining experience at each meal.
Benefits
Our 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. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
Free meal on every shift
Paid breaks
Personal Energy is Bupa's own resilience and wellbeing programme focused on helping you take good care of the important things in your life to maintain your own personal wellbeing.
Be Well health assessments. You and your family have access to a preferential rate on health assessments
Discount at selected Bupa Dental practices
RAC breakdown discount.
Be You Network. At Bupa we celebrate diversity, welcoming everyone from all backgrounds.
Flu vaccinations and eye test contributions
Menopause Plan: 10% discount on the Bupa Menopause Plan
Why Bupa
We'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.
We encourage all of 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.
Bupa 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. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Part timeJob Area:
Care Home - Facilities & Home SupportLocations:
Richmond Letcombe Regis VillageWe're the destination for people looking to live longer, healthier, and happier lives and making a better world. We’re a global healthcare company caring for over 60 million customers. We help people navigate change, conquer challenges, overcome injury and be all they can be. From early years through to retirement, we’re privileged to have been part of millions of lives around the world since 1947.
We’re proud of cultivating a culture that puts the welfare of people first. We believe in the importance of building an inclusive and agile culture which encourages diverse perspectives and inspires people to make new possibilities happen. We're passionate about doing the right thing for our customers, people, communities, and planet.
Our values are simple, but they run deep. They help guide how we work and what we look for in our people.
Brave - Make new possibilities happen
Caring - Act with empathy and respect
Responsible - Own your decisions and actions
Our vision is to provide world class care to each and every one of our wonderful residents, so they can live a life they truly love. In our care homes we're like a family, and we really mean that! Our residents and people tell us they feel it too. We don’t ever take it for granted that we get to take care of over 6,000 wonderful residents across the UK – we see it as a privilege.
If you have a caring nature, love to have fun and want to join us in providing the very best care to our residents, then you're in the right place.
As an employee of Bupa, we promise you three things:
We make health happen for you
By ensuring you are supported in every aspect—financial, physical, mental health, and beyond.
Work that makes a difference
At the heart of our purpose is a bold ambition: to become the world's most customer-centric healthcare company. We believe in the transformative power of digital health to make high-quality healthcare accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Career defining moments
Being a global business, we offer more opportunities than any other healthcare provider. Our investment in learning is designed to ensure you thrive, whatever that looks like for you.
We know that great health comes from feeling safe, happy, and fulfilled in all aspects of your life. That's why we offer a range of programmes and benefits to help both our people, and their families stay healthy and happy for longer.
Featured Benefits:
We regularly listen to and act on what our amazing people tell us about working here. Some may say that listening is our superpower, which is why we are now considered World Class! We ask our people twice a year through a survey how they feel about working in all areas of the Bupa business. The results put us in the top 10% of places to work, not just in the UK, but across the world!
Learning & Development
When it comes to learning and development, we’ll give you all the support you need to progress in your role. Our online learning platform offers a range of opt-in learning modules to support you in your role, alongside on-the-job coaching, and support from your manager. From apprenticeships to specialist roles, we set goals, regularly check in on progress, and review achievements – that’s how we thrive.
Early Careers
If you're just starting your career, Bupa is the perfect place to begin. We offer lots of exciting opportunities in a range of different fields, so you can find the perfect role for you. And with our focus on shaping the future of healthcare, you know that you'll be making a difference in the world, wherever you work. Everyone has the potential to achieve great things, no matter where they start from; our programmes and schemes are designed to set you on an exciting career journey. Whether you’re still studying or have just graduated, there are plenty of ways to start your journey with Bupa.
As a healthcare provider, we know there's an inextricable link between the health of the planet and the health of people. Bupa has made climate action a priority, and that's why we follow a sustainability strategy focused on building a healthy future.
We will do this through three missions:
Giving back matters
Giving back is what gives us purpose, and as a healthcare service, we have a duty of care to everyone in our local community. The Bupa Foundation is a charity, funded entirely by Bupa to help create healthier communities, by running and helping fund practical projects that improve both people and planet health. Since 2015 the Bupa Foundation has given over £10 million in grants to more than 800 organisations across the UK to improve health and the environment.
At Bupa we celebrate diversity, welcoming everyone from all backgrounds. We embrace our differences so we can bring our true selves to work. Having a diverse workforce is a key strength of the Bupa culture, and we understand the importance of making sure our workforce fully represents the communities in which we operate and the customers we serve, across the globe. We want people to feel comfortable and free to bring their whole self to work every day – and that’s why we launched our ‘Be You’ network.