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Chef Supervisor - HMP ISIS YOI
Salary: £32, per annum
1. Performance related bonus
2. Pension and life insurance
3. 22 days holiday plus bank holidays
4. Good shift patterns
5. Discount vouchers across hundreds of retailers and restaurants
The post holder will be a qualified Caterer responsible for overseeing prisoners and coordinating activities to deliver effective catering services. They will ensure high standards in both the quality and quantity of meals provided within the establishment, supporting the delivery of catering and hospitality operations. In addition, they will supervise a prisoner workforce, guiding and managing their contributions to the catering function.
Main Duties
6. Allocate daily staff resources to activity within their Unit where appropriate
7. Supervise and support staff and prisoners in all activities within the kitchen; including food preparation and delivery
8. Create menus, incorporating any special requirements and provide meal descriptions for prisoners
9. Check receipt of deliveries, stores and stock control
10. Visit residential areas to check on hygiene standards and food servery activity; offer guidance, carry out checks and support wing staff and servery workers
11. Provide Food Safety, Health and Hygiene training
12. Report equipment breakdown and records maintenance requirements
13. Assist the Catering Manager to produce meals for different events
14. Undertake all the duties of a Caterer as required
15. Deliver training to prisoners in Hospitality and Catering to cover both the establishment's needs and prisoners' aspirations to work towards gaining industry recognised accreditations
16. Participate in the selection process of prisoners for the area of work undertaking prisoner learning need assessments
17. Induct prisoners to the area of work and train them in aspects such as health and safety, Control of Substance Hazardous to Health (COSHH), machinery and tools usage
18. Maintain and update learner records including their Individual Learning Plan accordingly
19. Assess and evaluate skills of prisoners including National Vocational Qualification levels 1 and 2 and other relevant industry recognised qualifications
20. Undertake the registration, supervision, monitoring, assessment and accreditation of learners in accordance with awarding body requirement
21. Maintain awarding body quality standards and contribute towards internal and external verification as required
22. Set learning aims and learning goals, review and provide feedback on prisoner
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Ashish Singh at .