Executive Head Chef

Package Description

£31,000 per annum

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more.

Job Introduction

We have a varied, fast paced opportunity for an Executive Head Chef at our well-established Independent School, King Edward VI.  You’ll bring a hands-on approach to the site and apply your creative input into a diverse sustainable menu. As the Executive Head Chef, you will oversee the timely and efficient preparation of all core feeding, retail and hospitality within all catering areas and venues within the School, including special needs and diets. 

Well suited to a visual and approachable culinary figurehead that’s looking for a career enhancing role. The position is 52 weeks per year although there is plenty of time off during school holidays and downtime for that work life balance.

This role is subject to Safer Recruitment checks and the successful applicant will be required to complete a DBS.

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Main Responsibilities

• Coordinate and direct all culinary activities in King Edward VI and other locations in which we are asked to cater. 
• Manage and control the services to the agreed specification and to the agreed performance, qualitative and financial targets. 
• Manage a team to increase the Client and Sodexo’s revenue opportunities i.e. commercial opportunities, labour efficiency and generate the GOP within retail operations.  
• Supply Chain Management – ensure value for money is achieved through robust management of purchasing. 
• Nurture client relationships in order to stabilise & develop them for long term partnerships 
• Recruit, induct and develop talented employees within the kitchens and, if necessary, firmly and fairly manage poor performance. 
• Identify opportunities for organic growth and new business. 
• Exceptional management of Food Hygiene, Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation using the Sodexo Safety Management System. 

The Ideal Candidate

• NVQ level 2 Food Production certificate or equivalent  
• Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate 
• IOSH Managing Safely 
• Strong level of literacy and numeracy 
• Experienced Chef who has operated in a busy, client facing environment 
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be an effective  team player  
• Flexible, with the ability to work under pressure and across a range of shifts and service times 

Desirable

• Advanced Food Safety or Health and Safety qualification 

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

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 are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.