Job Description
Chef
Salary: £28,434
Location: HMP prison services, Milton Keynes
Employment Type: Full time, 38 hours per week, working alternate weekends.
Shifts ranging between 8am – 6.45pm
About the Role:
Do you love to create meals that put smiles on faces?
Are you a chef that’s looking for more flexibility in life, no split shifts or evenings?
Here’s an exciting opportunity that brings a fresh start to your culinary career.
- Work with a team of chefs and enhanced inmates to deliver meals, 3 times a day.
- Assisting and supervising enhanced inmates in the kitchen
- Filling out kitchen paperwork and due diligence
- Work alongside prisoner workforces and assist them in cooking meals and preparing food
- You will be responsible for the preparation of basic quality foods within a set pre ordered menu
- Effective and efficient food production in line with recipe sheets
- Full knowledge of all menu items served
- Be an excellent team player and be able to deal with conflict if it arises
- Undertake relevant training as required
Catering Training Manager Qualifications & Experience:
- Must have resided in the UK for the past 5 years and have legal right to work
- Must be able to pass full security vetting and DBS checks
- Management of production to ensure minimal wastage
- Maintenance of food levels throughout all service periods
- Maintenance of food quality and brand standards
- Ensuring the maintenance of high hygiene and health and safety standards in line with requirements and identify any anomalies and incidents
- Capturing and recording all volumes consumed and overproduction
- Assisting in the compilation of all shift opening and closing checklists
- Discussing ideas or improvements with line manager
- Act as a trainer/ coach for new team members to learn procedures and standards for all kitchen tasks.
- Undertake relevant training as required
- In addition to the above, Chefs may occasionally be required to undertake ad hoc back of house and front of house duties in line with business requirements.
- ALL chef staff must wear long sleeve chef jackets and non slip shoes.
Benefits:
- Life Assurance
- Pension
- Generous Holiday Entitlement
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme
- Blue Light Discount
- Free Meals on duty
- Free parking onsite
- Refer a friend scheme
- Love2shop discounts, including savings on your weekly supermarket shop!
Our suitable candidate will need to successfully complete a full vetting check prior to starting.
