Head Chef (Monday - Friday)

Job Introduction

Are you an ambitious Head chef, who is skilled in fresh food delivery and customer service? if yes, this role could be for you.

We are currently recruiting a Head Chef to deliver lunch service including balanced and nutritional options, themed lunches and street food concepts for up to 600 children at the Edinburgh Academy Senior School. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your culinary career and develop yours skills within a fantastic setting.

We are looking for a personable, friendly individual to give focus to the daily service delivery and production of high quality food, from daily student feeding to the set-up of exciting new events within the school. Working closely with our customers, you will become part of the team.

A massive bonus to this role is that it provides a work life balance and family friendly working hours, a dedicated and enthusiastic team, a supportive working environment and the opportunity re-imagine the service.

You will only be working Monday to Friday hours

Role Responsibility

• To work closely with the Catering Manager at The Edinburgh Academy Senior school to ensure that food standards across the school are of a consistently high standard of quality and presentation
• To train and develop chefs to ensure that they can perform to the required capability level
• To be responsible for the successful production and delivery of healthy, balanced food to pupils, staff and visitors at all services, within pre- determined budgetary levels.
• In the absence of the Catering Manager to be the primary point of contact for the kitchen team
• To undertake food production in line with legal requirements and in relation to HACCP
• To be responsible to production of weekly menus that include a variety of fresh and seasonal dishes (including vegetarian and dietary alternatives)

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in managing and leading a kitchen/craft team
• Industry acumen and knowledge of catering developments & innovations
• Food Safety Qualification  Level 3 /NVQ Level 3  is essential
• Enthusiasm to develop own skills and knowledge plus those around you
• Controlling and directing the food preparation process
• financial understanding and demonstrable in understanding budgets
• Proven ability communicating at different levels
• Strong communication skills
• Experience working in a standards /compliance environment
• Relevant qualification and training
• IT literate

Desirable

• Experience of working  in an Educational sector would be advantageous
• Coaching & leadership experience
• Health & Safety in the workplace qualification

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. This role will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.

Package Description

Circa £29,000 plus excellent Benefits Package

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance, free will writing, life assurance, 24hrs GP access and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave.

We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process