Sous Chef

3 days ago


Hitchin, United Kingdom Reed Talent Solutions Full time

**Sous Chef**
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
Baycroft in Fairfield Park, Hitchin is an elegant 75-bed Care Home where everyone is made to feel loved, safe and comfortable. The home offers residential, nursing and dementia care and puts their residents at the heart of everthing they do. We would valuetalented people to join us and share in our vision.
**Join our team as a Sous Chef today**
**The role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Sous Chef in Fairfield, Hitchin. Your responsibilities will include:

- Displaying exceptional leadership by providing a positive motivational work environment, supporting and communicating with employees as appropriate and demonstrating a professional approach to management
- Overseeing all day-to-day operations in the kitchen in the absence of the Head Chef
- Supporting the Head Chef in providing guidance and direction to the kitchen brigade, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance
- Scheduling and coordinating the work of the kitchen brigade to ensure that food presentation is technically correct, and of outstanding food quality
- Supporting the Head Chef in working within pre
- determined budgets ensuring operational needs and objectives are met
- Ensuring all food costs and labour are managed within the catering budget
- Facilitating chargeable services i.e., Birthday parties, end of life gatherings
- Working in conjunction with the Head Chef in implementing all food production, and the implementation of rotational menus, considering the differing needs and requirements of residents about special diets, pureed or soft diets etc.
- Interacting with residents and using customer feedback, satisfaction survey results and the monthly Food and Beverage meeting to drive forward service
- Actively handling residents’ problems or complaints
- Working in conjunction with the Head Chef in developing and continuously improve the Food and Beverage/Fine Dining Experience for our residents

**What you will need to succeed**
- Have experience of working as a Sous Chef within a luxury environment
- Have knowledge of catering for the elderly and the importance of nutrition and fortified diets where appropriate.
- Hold a City and Guilds Diploma in Professional Cookery or BTEC HND in professional Cookery or equivalent
- Have proven experience of stocktaking, product ordering and accountability
- Trained in COSHH ‘Control of Substances Hazardous to Health’ and HASSAP aware
- Have working knowledge of H&S legislation
- Be able to demonstrate good communications skills at all levels

**The offer**
- **Salary: £13 per hour/ £27,040 per annum**:

- **Your holidays are important to us**. Annual leave entitlement equivalent to 29 days, inclusive of bank holidays
- **Lean travel**. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- **Get paid to do good**. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our community
- **Well done** With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- **Learning never** One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level....


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