Head Chef

Thomas Franks Ltd; Warminster; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious boarding school as a Head Chef, where you'll create exceptional meals for nearly 1000 students. This role offers the opportunity to work with fresh seasonal ingredients, devise innovative menus, and lead a vibrant kitchen team in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Free meals on duty

Wider wallet scheme (discounts)

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Excellent career progression

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in food and excellent customer service.
• Ability to work as part of a team and innovate.
• Demonstrated proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve meals from scratch using fresh ingredients.
• Adhere to food hygiene and health & safety standards.
• Oversee menu planning and support the kitchen brigade.

Skills

Customer Service

Teamwork

Creativity

Attention to Detail

Job description

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Warminster

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: 40,000

Hours: 40 per week

A co-educational private boarding and day school in Warminster, Wiltshire for pupils aged three to eighteen. The schools consists of a Pre-Prep, prep and senior school. Catering for just under 1000 students with a core offer of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner with a lot of hospitality. As this is a boarding school, it operates 7 days a week and shift patterns are 5 over 7. your main responsibily wil be supporting the brigade located at Senior School whilst support menu planning and development of the Prep school, Additional benefit at this location is free parking on site.

We are looking for a talented Head Chef to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in Warminster.

If you are a current Head chef or Sous Chef working with fresh ingredients and in a fast paced environment then please apply today.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key Responsibilities

• To work well in a team, providing breakfast, lunch & hospitality.
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great team player
  
  

You Will Have The Following Skills

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised person with attention to detail
  
  

Knowledge / Competencies

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred
  
  

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and creative chef to advance their career in a dynamic environment. You'll have the chance to work with fresh ingredients, develop innovative menus, and take on a leadership role while contributing to a thriving kitchen.

If you're ready to take the next step in your culinary career, we’d love to hear from you!

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave – up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.
  
  

About Us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitality

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