Role: Chef
Location: Tresham College - Kettering Campus
Salary/Benefits: Salary up to £26,499 per annum (Pro-Rata) DOE and Qualifications, People's pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.
Contract Type: Permanent - Part Time
We are currently seeking a Chef to join our Bedford College Services department at The Bedford College Group.
As a Chef, you play an important role in the success of our students through:
Food Preparation & Quality - Prepare, cook, and present food to a high standard in line with weekly menus, ensuring sufficient availability for staff and students at all times.
Operational Support & Compliance - Assist with planning production schedules, manage food costs, maintain accurate records, and ensure compliance with HACCP, health and safety, and hygiene regulations.
Teamwork & Communication - Collaborate with the Chef Manager and kitchen team, communicate ingredient needs, and follow daily hospitality schedules to ensure smooth kitchen operations.
Customer Service & Cleanliness - Deliver an exceptional customer experience while maintaining exemplary cleanliness and hygiene across all food preparation areas.
Values & Development - Promote mutual respect, uphold safeguarding and equality policies, and engage in ongoing training and development to support personal and professional growth.
Qualifications & Culinary Expertise - Holds a Level 2 Kitchen or Larder qualification (or equivalent experience), Level 2 Hygiene certification, and strong GCSE-level English and Maths. Brings over two years of experience in large-scale food operations.
Creative & Technical Skills - Skilled in enhancing flavours, plate and buffet presentation, and managing food costs. Demonstrates high performance in food production and awareness of hospitality trends.
Leadership & Teamwork - Leads by example with strong planning, organisation, and communication skills. Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
BCS is A multi-faceted enterprise that operates across the leisure, hospitality, catering, theatre and facilities hire sectors.
The purpose of BCS is to provide a suite of commercial services to the staff and students of The Bedford College Group and to the wider community. Always striving to provide the highest quality of product and services and endeavouring to ensure that its supply chain complies with modern day thinking of sustainability, carbon emissions and modern slavery. Additionally BCS works to enrich student and staff experience within the Group through work experience, qualifying courses or apprenticeship, actively engaging within the communities it operates in.
To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.
Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.