Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Falkirk, is currently looking to recruit a Head Chef for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £16.84/hour PAYE. This role will be based in Falkirk.
Responsibilities:
- The management of the Kitchen team including Kitchen Porters
- Create competitive product pricing to deliver profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Recruit and train team of Chefs and Kitchen Porters
- Ensure food hygiene practices are monitored and maintained by team to provide a safe and clean working environment and compliance with industry standards.
- Develop and maintain food safety management procedures as directed by Environmental Health
- Manage stock control and place orders as necessary
- Liaise with supplier account manager
- Create new food recipes and train out to kitchen team to ensure consistency
- Implement and monitor kitchen cleaning standards
- To advise customers of products and services available and actively promote the venues
Essential Skills:
- Basic numeracy and literacy
- HND in Professional Cookery with Management or equivalent
- Organisational skills
- Customer care skills
- People management skills
- Relevant experience is required.
- Experience working as part of a team.
- Experience of COSHH regulations.
- Basic computer literacy.
- Previous Catering experience.
Desirable Skills:
- Mentoring skills
- Attention to detail
- Experience in moving and handling.
- Ability to organise competing demands.
- Experience in current Health and Safety regulations and procedures.
- Experience using MS office packages.
- Experience in managing a budget.
- Experience managing a team.
- Gaelic language skills
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch