Sous Chef

Holroyd Howe; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious educational catering company seeks a talented chef to lead their culinary program for a school environment. Responsibilities include overseeing meal services for 600 students, focusing on creativity and sustainability. Join a vibrant community as you innovate and set new standards in dining experience, all while enjoying a well-balanced lifestyle.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Work-life balance

Engaging dining experience initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a culinary role, ideally within an educational or similar setting.
• Strong knowledge of nutrition and food sustainability.
• Ability to lead and innovate in menu planning and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee culinary program for 600 pupils, ensuring high-quality meal preparation.
• Deliver breakfast, lunch, and supper while managing extensive hospitality services.
• Create exceptional menus using fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Skills

Culinary creativity

Leadership

Seasonal ingredient knowledge

Education

Culinary degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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• Oversee the culinary program for a school of around 600 pupils, including boarders and staff.
• Deliver comprehensive dining services: breakfast, lunch, and supper, along with extensive hospitality services for school events.
• Lead with innovation and passion, focusing on fresh, seasonal ingredients to create exceptional menus.
• Enjoy a well balancedschedule, ensuring an excellent work-life balance, with evening shifts due to finish by 7PM. (The school operates 7 days a week for boarding services.)

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee the culinary program for a school of around 600 pupils, including boarders and staff.
• Deliver comprehensive dining services: breakfast, lunch, and supper, along with extensive hospitality services for school events.
• Lead with innovation and passion, focusing on fresh, seasonal ingredients to create exceptional menus.
• Enjoy a well balancedschedule, ensuring an excellent work-life balance, with evening shifts due to finish by 7PM. (The school operates 7 days a week for boarding services.)

Qualifications

Why This Role is Special:

• Be part of a vibrant educational community with a strong emphasis on sports and events.
• Showcase your culinary creativity while making a significant impact on the dining experience of students and staff.
• Enjoy the opportunity to grow and set new standards in education catering, all while maintaining a balanced lifestyle.

If you’re a talented chef ready to take the lead in a dynamic, supportive, and prestigious environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Additional Information

Holroyd Howe is one of the UK’s leading contract caterers, providing fresh innovative food services solely to independent schools and colleges. We are a team of experienced professionals who tailor our catering service provision specifically to suit children of all ages in order to meet the bespoke requirements of each school.

To provide our teams with the right skills to succeed in their jobs, we invest in their training and development. Our exceptional teams of seasoned specialists customise our catering services to fit children of all ages and satisfy the unique needs of our clients.

We pride ourselves on:

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of our thinking; always mindful of the ethics of our sourcing and how we prepare our meals.

Nutrition

We take nutrition seriously and understand the impact a healthy diet has on the fundamental years of development. Meals are always freshly prepared from scratch and packed with nutritious ingredients.

Food Innovation

We offer a wide portfolio of training opportunities and experiences, which attracts chefs who are passionate about culinary excellence and menu innovation to our team.

From tasting tables, theme days and food theatre, to chef demonstrations and supplier showcases, we create engaging and fun dining experiences for our students. We work together to make mealtimes exploratory, quirky, and fun for our pupils, helping them build strong and healthy relationships with food.

“Holroyd Howe is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all employees to share this commitment. All roles within Holroyd Howe are regarded as regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for a role in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children, therefore we will require an Enhanced DBS which includes a Barred List check for all successful applicants. We will also require shortlisted applicants to provide appropriate information regarding any criminal offences and shortlisted applicants will be subject to an online search of public available information on suitability to work with children.“

This appointment is offered on the return of satisfactory professional references.

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