Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £40,000
Hours: 40 per week
We are looking for a talented Relief Chef Manager to join our team to support our business across Suffolk and the surrounding areas.
You will have previous experience of working within fast-paced kitchens at either Head Chef or Chef Manager level within contract catering (ideally Independent Schools or B&I).
You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus which YOU create! You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset every day.
Key responsibilities:
* To cover Head Chef| Chef Manager holiday and sickness
* To support with mobilisations
* To support with troubleshooting at locations which require additional support
* To cover a vacancy
* To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
* Creating bespoke seasonal menus from regional and local suppliers
* Completing food costings as required
* Completing company bookwork
* Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
* Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
You will have the following skills:
* A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service skills
* Excellent client relationship skills
* An all-round team player and leader
* Innovation and passion for great food
* An organised Relief Chef Manager with attention to detail
* Sound financial understanding
* Ability to demonstrate a good understanding and use of verbal English.
* Ability to demonstrate a good standard of written English and reading skills.
* Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is essential.
* Hold a recognised cooking qualification such as City & Guild 706/1 & 2 or equivalent.
* Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
* Free meals on duty
* Volunteers leave - up to one day per year.
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Recommend a friend bonus.
* Unrivalled individual training and development.
* Well established apprenticeship programme.
* Team & company social events.
* Employee assistance programme.
* Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.
About us
Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.
Disclaimer
All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.
An enhanced DBS, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.
Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks
We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.
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