Head Chef

Job id: 080767. Wage: From £42,405 to £49,785 each year together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 07 December 2023. Cut-off date: 07 January 2024.

Enterprise unit: Estates Buying and selling. Division: Catering Providers – Strand Kitchen.

Contact particulars:Lewis Linley. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Skilled & Help Providers.

Job description

Kings Meals the inner catering Division for Kings Faculty need to recruit an skilled Head Chef to handle the kitchen operations at The Kings Constructing on our Strand campus. Reporting into the Government Chef and Group Head Chef you can be accountable for the day after day operating of the kitchen. This can be a hands-on position and ideally you should have expertise at the same degree and above all else have the drive to ship glorious service. This can be a busy and difficult position, and the best candidate will possess the next abilities:    

• Have a robust craft background.
• Eye for element
• Be captivated with meals.
• The power to steer by instance.
• Wonderful organisational abilities
• Have an understanding for meals hygiene laws.
• Monetary consciousness with the flexibility to handle prices.

The contract is obtainable on a 5 out of seven days foundation and can contain working evenings and weekends.

This put up shall be provided on an indefinite contract   

This can be a full-time  put up

Key obligations

• Lead the kitchen workforce and supervise the each day manufacturing of all meals gadgets  
• Preserve excessive ranges of hygiene and adjust to all meals hygiene and well being and security laws. 
• Test meals wastage and monitor meals value targets. 
• Develop the kitchen workforce in step with enterprise necessities. 
• Talk requirements and repair necessities. 
• Plan each day workload and make sure the service is prepared on time. 
• Examine dishes for style, presentation, and high quality earlier than service. 
• Transient catering assistants on the each day menus and content material of dishes 
• Supervise the manufacturing and supply of meals all through service. 
• Conduct inventory checks and place orders with suppliers. 
• Tackle prospects’ requests and enquiries
• Actively promote and promote the catering providers to prospects.  

The above listing of obligations will not be exhaustive, and the put up holder shall be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the put up.  

Expertise, information, and expertise 

Important standards  

Educated to GCSE normal or equal.  

Maintain a recognised catering qualification.  

Good written and oral communication abilities  

Data of meals preparation, cooking and portion management 

Experiencer of hospitality and occasions catering 

Data and understanding of all related well being, hygiene, and security laws.  

Expertise of directing the work of others   

Can develop a workforce. 

Expertise of meals costing 

Wonderful buyer providers focus 

Fascinating standards

Maintain a present Meals Handlers certificates.