Kitchen staff sought for patient dining team at Esbjerg Hospital

The kitchen at Esbjerg Hospital is seeking an employee for permanent employment in patient catering

Are you passionate about ensuring that patients and citizens are offered tasty and delicious food?

We are looking for a colleague for permanent employment with start no later than 01.12.2026, in the Patient Catering team in the kitchen at Esbjerg Hospital. Working hours are day shift about 2/3 (7-14.24) and evening shift about 1/3 (13-19.30), work every 3rd weekend. Possibility for 30 - 37 hours/week.

We are looking for an employee who is enthusiastic about working in our kitchen, more specifically the patient catering team, where we daily cater to all patients at Esbjerg Hospital, regardless of allergens, diets or other considerations. Therefore a diet-related background is advantageous, but not required.

We are open to a broad professional background (work/education such as: cook, nutrition assistant, cater, butcher, baker, etc.) the most important thing is that you are eager to learn and can and will work with the different tasks in the kitchen. At the same time the kitchen in the future will deliver food to health and care facilities in our catchment area, where there will be a need for you to be able to take on this task.

You will be employed as a Nutrition Assistant or House Assistant depending on your professional background.

The position includes

• Production of hot-holding meals, final preparation of chilled meals, arranging of deli- platters, snacks and others, preparation of meal trolleys for the departments, operation of meal trolley in the ward, making sandwiches and other tasks
• Close daily contact with patients and care staff in the role of mealtime host
• Self-check, dishwashing and cleaning are part of the work in all teams in the kitchen
• Internal coordination in the kitchen with others in the team
• The tasks will be agreed according to your competencies and opportunities in the job

You have the following strengths/competences

• Are interested in your work and colleagues, and want to deliver good quality and service for our patients/citizens
• Relevant experience and/or professional education within the area is welcome but not required
• High professional standard and take pride in delivering a product of high quality
• Have an overview and a good sense of planning
• Can, and will contribute to positive dialogue and collaboration both internally in the kitchen and with our partners/customers

We offer a department that places great emphasis on

• Having engaged and professionally skilled colleagues who thrive
• Providing good service to our customers: patients and staff
• High quality and appealing food
• Being a hardworking and efficient organization with ongoing focus on creating a development and improvement culture together with one another
• Being a visible department in the organization that collaborates across
• That we bring good humor to work every day
• To have control of applicable legal requirements in the kitchen hygiene area
• Thorough training and ongoing upskilling

The kitchen organization has about 65 full-time positions, where the individual employee is part of a team for a rational kitchen operation. Physically we are in the kitchen in Esbjerg and the receiving kitchens in Grindsted and at the psychiatry in Esbjerg.

The region is obliged to inform you about the starting salary for the position. You will be told the base salary, centrally fixed allowances and pension in Agreement for Non-management staff in the Health Cartel area 32.17.1 - salary as of 1.4.2026 . In addition to the starting salary, the pay may include any negotiated allowances depending on the position, your experience and qualifications.

See starting salary for positions in the Region of Southern Denmark

We would like to point out that you are hired at department level. This means that you may be required to perform duties at the department's other service locations if required for the purpose of planning operations

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Additional information can be obtained from Kitchen Manager Adam Hedevang Malmø at 79182516.

You can also read more about the kitchen here .

Application deadline is 15.11.2026 at the latest, interviews will be held continuously with employment by agreement.

Applications are sent via the link in the advertisement. We look forward to hearing from you :-)