Chef

Chef

Salary: £28,434

Location: HMP prison services, Milton Keynes

Employment Type: Full time, 38 hours per week, working alternate weekends.

Shifts ranging between 8am - 6.45pm

About the Role:

Do you love to create meals that put smiles on faces?
Are you a chef that's looking for more flexibility in life, no split shifts or evenings?
Here's an exciting opportunity that brings a fresh start to your culinary career.

• Work with a team of chefs and enhanced inmates to deliver meals, 3 times a day.
• Assisting and supervising enhanced inmates in the kitchen
• Filling out kitchen paperwork and due diligence
• Work alongside prisoner workforces and assist them in cooking meals and preparing food
• You will be responsible for the preparation of basic quality foods within a set pre ordered menu
• Effective and efficient food production in line with recipe sheets
• Full knowledge of all menu items served
• Be an excellent team player and be able to deal with conflict if it arises
• Undertake relevant training as required

Catering Training Manager Qualifications & Experience:

• Must have resided in the UK for the past 5 years and have legal right to work
• Must be able to pass full security vetting and DBS checks
• Management of production to ensure minimal wastage
• Maintenance of food levels throughout all service periods
• Maintenance of food quality and brand standards
• Ensuring the maintenance of high hygiene and health and safety standards in line with requirements and identify any anomalies and incidents
• Capturing and recording all volumes consumed and overproduction
• Assisting in the compilation of all shift opening and closing checklists
• Discussing ideas or improvements with line manager
• Act as a trainer/ coach for new team members to learn procedures and standards for all kitchen tasks.
• Undertake relevant training as required
• In addition to the above, Chefs may occasionally be required to undertake ad hoc back of house and front of house duties in line with business requirements.
• ALL chef staff must wear long sleeve chef jackets and non slip shoes.

Benefits:

• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Generous Holiday Entitlement
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme
• Blue Light Discount
• Free Meals on duty
• Free parking onsite
• Refer a friend scheme
• Love2shop discounts, including savings on your weekly supermarket shop!

Our suitable candidate will need to successfully complete a full vetting check prior to starting.