Head Chef Where: Shrewsbury Contracted hours: Job type: Pay: £34,096.00, Per Annum Optional acc[...]

PGL Travel Ltd; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Head Chef, where you'll fuel adventure by providing nutritious meals for children. This full-time role offers a supportive environment, limited late nights, and opportunities for career progression without sacrificing personal time. Enjoy competitive pay and numerous benefits, including generous leave and family-friendly policies.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (+ 8 bank holidays)

Paid volunteering days

Access to Wellbeing Hub

Contributory pension

Discounted PGL breaks

Qualifications

• Experience as a Sous Chef/Head Chef in a mid-to-large scale dining environment.
• Understanding of food mass production.
• Excellent knowledge of food hygiene & handling complex dietary requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Chefs & Catering Assistants and organize rotas.
• Ensure food hygiene and manage dietary requirements.
• Handle financial aspects of the catering operation.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational Skills

Decision-Making

Food Hygiene

Dietary Requirements

Education

City & Guilds 7061/2

Level 3 Food Safety

Job description

• Earn £34,096 (live
  off rate) per annum (our pay system is benchmarked, transparent and fair)
  
• Full Time Permanent Contract
  

Use your catering skills to fuel adventure

PGL creates extraordinary breakthroughs for children through active and life-affirming experiences in the great outdoors.
But that’s not all… we’re part of something bigger. We’re powered by PGL Beyond, a group of inspiring companies with a shared purpose to deliver enriching and transformative experiences to the younger generation.

By joining PGL, you’ll play a key role in delivering on our mission to make outdoor education more impactful, sustainable, and inclusive for future generations. Excited? So are we!

A Head Chef position like no other…

What could be more important than fuelling the next generation for adventure? Our catering team are proud to serve tasty & nutritious meals, combining reassuring favourites and new cuisines to keep the adventure going. Our centralised team provides all the recipes, enabling you and your team to focus on executing our proven menus; delivering delicious as well as safe food by ensuring all health and safety, allergen safety & food safety standards are followed.

You will work limited late nights, with a Friday or Saturday evening off most weeks (especially outside of our peak season) and no working over Christmas – this could be the perfect role to progress your career in catering without sacrificing that all important social and family time!

As Head Chef, you’ll be reporting to the Catering Manager, and responsible for managing a team of Chefs & Catering Assistants; organising rotas, setting clear objectives and identifying any training needs. You will also ensure your team is following procedures to maintain exemplary levels of food hygiene, and confidently managing complex dietary requirements. Alongside managing financial aspects of the catering operation, production planning, waste and stock management.

Is this you?

• Experience as a Sous Chef/Head Chef in a mid-to-large scale dining environment
  
• Has experience and understanding of food mass production
  
• A confident leader of people with strong organisational and decision-making skills
  
• Excellent knowledge of food hygiene & handling complex dietary requirements including allergies and intolerances
  
• You will hold your City & Guilds 7061/2 (or equivalent) and Level 3 or above in Food Safety and Allergen Management
  

Above all, it’s our core values of FUN, SAFETY, QUALITY, INCLUSIVITY, TEAMWORK and RESPECT that unite us.

A place to thrive

No matter your background, ethnicity, age, neurodivergence or anything else … PGL is a place to be yourself, have fun, use your valuable skills for good and celebrate what makes you brilliantly unique.

Fair pay and benefits for all

• On top of your 25 days annual leave (+ 8 bank holidays), you’ll also enjoy your birthday off, have paid volunteering days to help worthwhile causes and the option to purchase additional holiday.
  
• A career with ongoing growth, aided development, mentoring, multiple pathways and opportunities to work across different UK or French locations.
  
• 24/7 access to our Wellbeing Hub alongside our Employee Assistance Program
  
• Sector leading family friendly policies and a contributory pension
  
• Access to our financial wellbeing platform where you can borrow or save directly from your salary.
  
• Free/discounted PGL breaks for your family & discounts at 800+ retailers.

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We hire the best talent and value a diverse, inclusive team; so, we are committed to ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone and are happy to provide helpful adjustments to make it easier to complete. Simply email or call us with detail around the adjustments you need.
However, our top priority is the safety of the children at our centres. Therefore, all employees must undergo an Enhanced criminal records check (known as DBS or PVG), which we pay for. You will need to provide a 5-year address history and ID (such as passport/birth certificate). Convictions related to violence, drugs, or safeguarding may affect your application. Not all convictions will disqualify you, as we assess each case individually.

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