Executive Chef

1 week ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds City College Full time

About the Role

This is a Full-Time, Reduced Year role: 37 hours per week, 38 weeks per year.

This role is based at Somerville House, Leeds.

We are seeking a skilled Chef Manager to join our Food Service and Catering Department, which plays a vital role in the student experience. Our shared aim is to provide an environment that creates a better future through inspirational actions that will change lives. The values that guide us as a team are trust, integrity, compassion, fairness, and inclusion, and these values guide us throughout our working day.

Key Responsibilities

  • To cook and prepare all meals and snacks for the Café, ensuring menus are innovative and nutritious, current, and meet the needs of our customers.
  • To effectively manage the Cafe, delivering an excellent high-quality service.
  • Responsible for the catering team and manage any staffing issues effectively.
  • To regularly gain feedback from customers to develop and enhance service provision.
  • To accurately record purchasing invoices and manage stock to achieve the budgeted GP.
  • Motivate and train the team of Food Service Assistants to ensure they provide a high-quality service for our customers and students.

About You

  • English and Mathematics at level 2 or above.
  • Relevant experience, knowledge, and understanding of cooking in the catering, hospitality, and food manufacture sector.
  • Basic Food Hygiene certificate.
  • Experience of producing a range of products to a high standard within a short period of time.
  • Ability to follow Food Hygiene systems and monitor due diligence records.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to our staff members, including:

  • Annual leave entitlement - If you work full-time, you'll get at least 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and up to 5 discretionary closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part-time staff).
  • Generous Pension schemes - Teachers' Pension Scheme and Local Government Pension Scheme.
  • Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes.
  • Travel and commuting - discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus, and Cycle to work schemes.
  • Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days.
  • Employee wellbeing initiatives.
  • Flexible and hybrid working opportunities - this will vary depending on role requirements.

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people's lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates, and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you'll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff, and our stakeholders.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College, and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.

Safeguarding

At Luminate Education Group, we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks, which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks, and must have two satisfactory references.

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