Chef - Fine Dining

Package Description

£32,000 - £35,000 + great bonus and benefits

Location: Everton Football Club

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw 5/7 to include weekends and evenings

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!

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities, and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. We recognise that we’re on a journey with regards to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.

Job Introduction

Sodexo Live! have a brand-new opportunity for a Head Chef – Fine Dining to join our amazing close knit and high performing team at Goodison Park, the home of Everton Football Club.

At Sodexo Live! we bring people together, we create exceptional moments and lasting memories. We are a unique community of people mobilized to create live experiences that are unforgettable.

Sodexo support with the hospitality at Everton Football club both on Match Days and for Events, this is an exciting time to join us supporting a new development as we focus on making all events and match day dining a really special experience for customers.

In this diverse role you will be able to use your creative skill set and imagination to bring a gastronomic flair to Everton. You will support the Executive Head Chef to lead the kitchen operations team deliver service excellence, write menu’s and continuously work to develop and improve the food proposition ensuring that our offer remains on trend and relevant.

You will be experienced in fine dining operations, have a passionate interest in the catering industry with knowledge of current trends and is excited about food.

When you join Sodexo Live! you truly belong, you will have the opportunity to thrive with career and learning opportunities available across the organisation - we cant wait for you to join us!

Main Responsibilities

• Preparation and cooking of food
• Ensuring the kitchen areas are clean and tidy
• Health and safety regulations, ensuring they are always followed
• Delivering a world class customer experience to our customers and staff
• Assisting in all areas of the kitchen for breakfast, lunch and hospitality
• Assisting the Exec Head Chef or Head Chef with paperwork including stock ordering
• Menu planning
• Menu costings 

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrate experience in fine dining operations along with the understanding of managing high volumes.
• A passionate interest in the catering industry
• A competent communicator and ability to present to colleagues, peers and clients
• Financial awareness and understanding of a food profit and loss account and articulate how to control food cost and generate a positive food margin
• Evidence of being organised and possess excellent planning skills
• Expected to work all match days 

About The Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

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