Chef - Southern Cross Hospital, Hamilton

Full time – 40 hours per week, Mon – Fri 9.30am to 6:00pm.

Southern Cross Hamilton is a private short-stay surgical hospital based in Hamilton East that is committed to providing restaurant quality meals and catering for special dietary requirements on request. To make this happen, we need a motivated Chef who is passionate about food, and excellent service to support our Chef Manager.

This role will work as part of a team, providing meals for inpatients along with day stay units, and morning tea and lunches for staff each day. The successful candidate will need experience in baking and creating a variety of salads, sandwiches and

This position requires an experienced chef who can:

• Prepare, cook, and serve a-la-carte restaurant quality food for patients and staff,
• Discuss food preparation issues with managers and kitchen staff,
• Cater for extensive and varying range of dietary requirements and allergies
• Monitor quality of food at all stages of preparation and presentation,
• Maintain a clean, tidy, safe and hazard free environment,
• Work at a high level without supervision
• Comfortably interact with patients during room service
• Be able to work unsupervised and run an efficient kitchen when the Chef Manager has finished for the day.
• Be friendly and engaging and know what it means to deliver outstanding customer service.

This site closes for a few weeks over the Christmas period but work may be available at other sites over that time if required. We are seeking someone to start as soon as possible.

Who we are: Cater Plus is a company that prides itself on excellent service. Join our team, made up of over 700 individuals that live our values, and where people are what truly make this company stand out from the rest. Learn more about our Cater Plus family at http://www.caterplus.co.nz/employment, and if this sounds like your next opportunity, please apply now.

The candidates applying must be New Zealand citizens/residents or eligible to work in New Zealand. Please specify your current status in your job application correspondence.