Sous Chef - Care Home

Calling all chefs! Your new role as a Sous Chef could be right around the corner at our clients luxurious and GOOD rated Care Home. Are you a strong competent chef, with a couple of years experience as a Sous Chef?
This company will develop and train you giving you the opportunity to grow your career.
The home is looking for a culinary team leader like you to become the Sous Chef.
Excellent Benefits such as:

• Generous, above-market rate pay for Kitchen Staff
• Contracted hours - Full time, 40 Hours per week
• Shifts work - Working alternate weekends
• Enhanced overtime rates
• Workplace pension
• Comprehensive and further development opportunities
• Opportunities for Career progression
• Refer a Friend Bonus - up to GBP750 per referral T&Cs Apply

Primary responsibilities of the Sous Chef:

• To ensure all food prepared meets Food Hygiene Standards and ensure that safe methods of work are always used.
• Be aware of the legal requirements of health and safety legislation.
• To ensure that all kitchen equipment, work areas and other facilities are maintained and operate to the standards required by Statutory Bodies, Local Authority, Health and Safety, Food Hygiene regulations and Company policies. Reporting of any defects.
• To attend and participate in training as required. Ensure that safe methods of work are used at all times on your watch and no unauthorised persons cleans or operates any dangerous machinery.
• To implement and follow agreed processes to manage all stocks and ordering. Compliance to agreed rotation and food labelling systems. Maintain food hygiene, temperature records on your watch and assist with the ordering and administration of the catering function.
• Show courtesy and respect to residents and their relatives at all times. To attend and participate in employee and relatives meetings as and when required in the absence of line manager.
• To deputise for head chef during periods of absence and maintain high quality food offer at all times
• Make meals to adapt to residents with and without Dementia

You should be able to:

• Be able to effectively listen, establishing trust and ensuring contractual compliance through exemplary leadership.
• Be able to take initiative and responsibility, committing to achieving growth by creating a culture of flexibility, adaptability and challenging the norm.
• Have proven leadership skills
• City & Guilds 7061 or NVQ Level 2 in Catering for the Hospitality Industry
• Ideally over 4 years experience as a Chef Manager or in a similar environment and role

This is a luxurious Care Home in a beautiful location. Residents live in spacious, stylish ensuite rooms, and enjoy beautifully furnished shared spaces and landscaped gardens. From the deluxe picture house where they screen classic films to the on-site luxury spa offering hairdressing, manicures and relaxing therapies everything has been designed and finished with the care and attention you would expect from a 5-star hotel.
Please submit your CV in the first instance to (url removed)