Head Chef
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £33000 – £34000/annum Excellent career benefits
Our client is one of the largest facilities management and maintenance contractors in the UK, offering market leading opportunities for talented professionals looking for long term career progression.
Due to an increase in upcoming projects, there is now need for a Head Chef to join this highly successful and forward-thinking organisation.
The site is a prison so you will need to pass the client prison service vetting.
As the Head Chef, you will be responsible for:
* Ensuring the provision of meals for prisoners and for the quality and quantity of meals served.
* Monitoring a safe working environment e.g. requesting repairs to kitchen equipment, on-going testing and reporting operating faults on computer aided facilities management system.
* Assist with the compliance of all Food Safety Management systems and Hygiene Assessments within the kitchen and associated areas. Undertaking Risk Assessments, HACCP and responding to hazards as and when appropriate.
* Assist with costing the menu requirements and management of the catering budget including the provision of cultural, health nutrition and special dietary needs.
* Assist with estimating, ordering, and managing resources (food and ingredients to deliver the catering requirements of the establishment). Ensure effective utilisation of those resources to maximise the reduction of waste.
* Assist with the maintenance of security standards in the kitchen area in line with Local Security Strategy (LSS) and National Security Framework (NSF)
* Responsible for prisoner workforce in the kitchens, ensure that they are appropriately inducted, trained, supervised, and paid and complete all documentation relating to prisoners where required.
* Assist with the implementation of national policy and/or contribution towards the development of local policy, procedures and practice for catering and ensures consistency across the unit in the application of policies and procedures affecting prisoners and staff.
* Responsible for the collection, collation, analysis and acting on data concerning the catering function including feedback on the choice and quality of food provided and weekly individual menu choices from residential area.
* Responsible for training wing food handlers on hygiene stand.
* Responsible for carrying out kitchen inspections, audit preparation and documentation for audit purposes.
* Allocate daily staff resources to activity within their Unit where appropriate
* Help create menus, incorporating any special requirements and provide meal descriptions for prisoners
* Check receipt of deliveries, stores and stock control
* Visit residential areas to check on hygiene standards and food servery activity; offer guidance, carry out checks and support wing staff and servery workers
To be successful for this role you must have:
* Must hold qualifications and competences of F&S Supervisor – Catering.
* Must hold a Food Hygiene Level 4 Diploma or equivalent Level 4 award in HACCP.
* Be familiar with applying all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations that apply in a working kitchen environment and demonstrate previous competency at supervising or management of staff within a kitchen environment.
* Refresher training in Food Safety (HACCP) should be completed at 3-year intervals environment.
* Strong and effective communication skills.
* Well organised with the ability to prioritise
* IT skills
* Experience in performing to KPIs and SLAs
* Ability to pass Prison Service vetting.
If you feel you have the necessary skills set and experience to perform this Head Chef role, and you are interested in an opportunity offering unparalleled career development, please apply now
More Information
- Address SW2, Brixton Hill, Greater London
