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Head Chef

Lord Wandsworth College
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Hook, Hampshire RG29, England

Salary

£40,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

Retirement Plan
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  • The role of Head Chef involves leading the kitchen team and collaborating with the Catering Manager to deliver all catering services effectively.
  • Responsibilities include menu development, food preparation, and food procurement procedures, ensuring high-quality meals are served.
  • The position requires adherence to health and safety regulations, with the Head Chef ensuring compliance within the kitchen environment.
  • This is a permanent, term-time position located on campus, offering a salary of £43,524 per annum.
  • Candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of background, with a focus on diversity and inclusion within the workforce.
The prime function of this role is to lead the kitchen team and work with the Catering Manager in the delivery of all catering services while positively promoting and advancing all service provisions.

This encompasses all menu development, food preparation and food procurement procedures from deliveries to site, to finished meals leaving the kitchen.

The Head Chef will also take the responsibility for health and safety regulation and ensuring that they are being communicated and followed by.

Head Chef

Department: Catering
Responsible to: Catering Manager
Location: On Campus
Contract: Term Time, permanent
Salary: £43,524 per annum

We offer a great range of staff benefits including:

  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Fee remission for children
  • Enhanced family-friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
  • State-of-the-art, restaurant-quality hot and cold food available (complimentary)
  • Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
  • Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
  • Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
  • Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
  • Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
  • Team members receive full on the job training

The closing date for applications is Monday 21st April 2025 with interviews taking place on Monday 28th April 2025. The college reserve the right to close the role early.

We welcome people of all faiths and those who are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity, we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.

Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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