Chef

• Permanent
• 30 hours per week
• 4 out of 7 days a week (as per rota: 3 week rolling rota - 1 working weekend out of 3)
• £14 per hour (weekend rate: time and 1/3 = 18.62/h)
• Free parking | meal allowance while on shift
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Chef

Belfast, NI - Part time - Permanent

A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.

At Sodexo, you'll belong in a team and thrive in service. We know that our talented chefs are the key to delivering exceptional service and tasteful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

Build a name with big-brand businesses and corporate clients, delivering high-quality nutritious meals for boardroom lunches, executive events, and daily workplace dining. This role calls for a chef who can blend maintaining excellent standards, while working efficiently in a fast-paced, trend-setting, client-focused environment.

What you'll do

• Provide high-quality catering services for patients and staff dining areas.
• Prepare fresh food including sandwiches, salads, starters, fruits, and vegetables.
• Support meal service to patients — setting up trays, distributing menus, and delivering meals.
• Deliver efficient meal service in staff dining and outpatient areas.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness across the kitchen, wash-up, and prep areas.
• Ensure full compliance with Food Safety, Allergen, and HACCP procedures.
• Record food temperatures, allergen information, and maintain hygiene documentation.
• Uphold Sodexo and client service standards to achieve a 5-star rating in audits.

What you'll bring

• Previous experience in a busy catering or food service environment.

• Strong understanding of Food Safety, Food Allergen management, and HACCP principles.

• Working knowledge of Health & Safety regulations in a catering setting.

• Strong bakery skills

• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to maintaining hygiene standards.

• Ability to work effectively within a team and under pressure during busy service times.

• Friendly, professional manner with great communication and customer service skills.

• Flexibility to support both patient and staff catering requirements.

• Relevant catering qualifications (e.g., City & Guilds 706/1 & 706/2 or equivalent).

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications