Head Chef

Package Description

£30,000 - £31,800 + great benefits  

Location: LVS Oxford Kidlington  

Permanent 

Work pattern: 40hrs pw Monday to Friday 7-3.30pm. Occasional weekends and evenings in summer school 

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

A highly rewarding and exciting opening has arisen on our LVS Oxford school site for an experienced Head Chef to join our team.  

We are looking for a Chef with the drive and passion to manage an Independent SEN Day school catering contract and be responsible for 2 Sodexo staff at LVS Oxford.  You will be running the kitchen preparing, planning and serving meals, ordering and stock management.  

This position will suit an experienced Chef Manager with a passion for food, who is skilled in food delivery and customer experience, is good at situational decision making and has a good eye for detail. You will thrive on a challenge and have strong interest in really making a difference. 

Working alongside the onsite team you will nurture and develop individuals aligning with the site and company objectives whilst at the same time having the opportunity to develop and progress within your own role. 

This is a great opportunity to work in a rewarding secondary school environment whilst being part of a world leading food and facilities management company; here we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression.  

Main Responsibilities

• To ensure prompt, efficient and innovative service of all catering and hospitality to the company standard and client's satisfaction.  

• To ensure that all food is prepared with due care and attention, particularly in relation to customers’ special dietary requirements, for example, nut, dairy or wheat allergies. Assisting in completing allergen records and preservice briefing.   

• Maintain the cleanliness and hygiene standards of all areas, ensuring that legal and company standards are met. Ensure all work areas and surfaces are clean and tidy, especially at the end of the shift.   

• Ensure the segments Fresh Food From Scratch principles are applied to all areas of the business.  

• Ensure that the legal and company regulations regarding hygiene, health and safety are complied with.  

• To be responsible for all aspects of stock management, including ordering, rotation, storage, labelling, stock counts and delivery temp records. Assisting with monitoring food production and waste.   

The Ideal Candidate

• Consistent supervisory experience preferable  

• Excellent interpersonal skills and team building skills, demonstrates recognition of others contribution.  

• Previous experience in a similar role  

• Enthusiastic and self-motivated – needs no encouragement to make things happen and displays a natural and sustained enthusiasm.   

• Relevant vocational qualifications NVQ and food hygiene  

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. This role will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland. 

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.