Kitchen manager

DISH; Leeds; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A quality care home group in Leeds is seeking a Roaming Head Chef to manage a fresh food led kitchen. This role offers a great work/life balance with day-time shifts and alternate weekends off. The ideal candidate will have a background in fresh food preparation and baking, with at least 3 years of experience in a kitchen environment. The position provides menu autonomy and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Uniform provided

Pension Scheme

Paid overtime

Career progression and promotion opportunities

Great kitchen with the latest equipment

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years working in a fresh food led kitchen.
• Proven chef and people management experience.
• Basic knowledge of dietary requirements for older people.

Responsibilities

• Manage the kitchen and create seasonal menus.
• Supervise a team of chefs and kitchen assistants.
• Ensure compliance with food safety and health standards.

Skills

Fresh food preparation

Baking skills

Allergen certification

Customer facing interactions

Health & safety practices

Job description

ROAMING HEAD CHEF, LEEDS SUBURB, DAY-TIMES, £32,000

40 HOURS, DAY-TIMES SUPERB WORK/LIFE BALANCE, ALTERNATE WEEKENDS OFF

QUALITY ASSISTED LIVING CARE HOME, FRESH FOOD LED KITCHEN

Benefits

• 5 day-times week over 7
• Alternate weekends off
• Uniform provided
• Straight shifts working 40 hours a week
• Day time work
• hourly rate so you get paid for every hour you work
• Paid overtime, at an enhanced rate
• No evenings
• great kitchen with all the latest equipment
• Menu autonomy, with rolling 4 week menus
• Career progression and promotion opportunities.
• Pension Scheme

Our clients are Leeds’ finest provider of first class care and assisted living, and as such the successful applicant would be joining a company whose ethos is about quality of life for both clients, and their staff, with a wide range of company benefits, a great work life balance, and proven progression opportunities, this would be a great career move for a Kitchen manager or head chef looking to expand from the one kitchen, with experience working with fresh food, and baking, not necessarily from a care-home kitchen background

This high quality care home group based in Leeds has a number of care homes around Leeds that caters for up to 60 residents, providing breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinners for early evening meals, all made fresh in house, including all cakes and pastries, so a knowledge of basic bakery is a must, and you would be tasked with working at a base kitchen but covering head chef needs around the company on a week to week basis

Working within professional teams at each home with numerous chef, KA's and waiting staff, everything is set up here to allow you to succeed, from the very well supplied kitchen and kit, to the fresh food menu's which you will be asked to contribute to designing, to the industry leading support and compliance procedures, everything is in place to allow you to be at your best every day.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years working within a fresh food led kitchen up to head chef/Kitchen manager
• Have a minimum basic DBS check, enhanced the ideal, although the home can gain this for you
• Be comfortable being customer facing as the role require consultation with patients for dietary needs
• Experience working within a team in a fast paced kitchen environment
• Health & safety procedures including control of substances harmful to health (COSHH) and food safety standards.
• Proven chef and people management experience.
• Basic knowledge of dietary requirements for older people and the impact of food types on medication.
• Understanding of Allergens, must have allergen certification
• Working with fresh seasonal produce
• Baking & cake making skills

If this sounds like the ideal position for you, then do please apply with up to date CV through the link here, or give Eddy Nuttall a call in the Dish hospitality offices for more information on this, and other positions in the region