Sous Chef
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW1A |
| Company: | Compass Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 161116 |
Summary
Sous Chef - LondonWorking in various locations in central London37.5 hours a week - £18.06 an hour
Overall Purpose of the Role
Essential
Overall Purpose of the Role
- To provide a friendly and professional food service to all customers and clients.
- Taking responsibility for ensuring that all food and beverage areas are prepared in line with legislations and the working environment is clean and tidy.
- Manage the kitchen staff in their day-to-day activities ensuring the delivery of the food service achieves all daily shift production & waste targets. Ensure dishes are prepared, cooked and presented to the required standards and specifications within your section/speciality in accordance with food safety procedures
- Demonstrate a can-do attitude towards individual customer requests and strive to exceed customer expectations
- Ensure the highest level of customer care is adhered to at all times by role modelling the ESS Way values and behaviours at all times to colleagues and customers
- Deputise for the Head chef or Catering Manager as required
- Manage the kitchen staff in their day-to-day activities ensuring the delivery of the food service achieves all daily shift production & waste targets
- Create and maintain rosters for the catering team
- Assist in food production planning, processing of food orders and monitoring of stock, including the receipt and storage of deliveries
- Assist when required with the loading or unloading of supply vehicles
- Financial management of GP within the area of responsibility, ensuring food is recovered and stored correctly to minimise waste
- Motivate the team through effective communication
- Preparing, cooking and presenting dishes to the required standards and portion specifications within your section/speciality
- Actively gain customer feedback, passing information gained on to your line manager
- Where possible proactively up-sell and demonstrate excellent knowledge of all products provided to customers and clients
- As part of our commitment to continuous improvement and innovation, all colleagues are encouraged to seek ways to improve work activities and promote efficiency
- Perform and document routine inspection and maintenance activities. Notify management of occurring deficiencies or needs for repairs
- Ensure pre and post-service checklists and cleaning schedules have been completed before and after all food services
- Comply with all client & company health & safety procedures and standards at all times e.g. Food Handling, COSHH, uniforms & PPE, Manual Handling, Fire procedures, and Quality control.
- Complete, maintain and update all Food Safety and Health & Safety paperwork correctly when required.
- Maintain the cleanliness of working areas ensuring Health and Safety hazards, issues, near misses and accidents are reported using the appropriate reporting procedures at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure the correct storage, control and use of all machinery and equipment, cleaning materials and relevant chemicals.
- Undertake mandatory training as detailed in the training matrix, ensuring all training is recorded on your training record card and completing all online training
- To observe and comply with all company and unit profit protection procedures, reporting any issues to your line manager as required
- Support with hospitality/functions/operation feeding service delivery effectively and efficiently
- Be flexible and comply with any reasonable requests made by your line Manager including, if necessary working within other units within a reasonable distance
Essential
- A strong communicator, able to liaise confidently with customers and engage with team members
- Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised
- A positive attitude and commitment to high levels of customer care
- An enthusiastic individual with a passion for working in a food service environment
- High standards of personal hygiene
- Able to work flexibly in line with business requirements
- Excellent cooking skills - able to prepare complex food dishes in a refined way
- Experience in a similar role
- Able to work positively with others as part of a team
- Basic Food Hygiene/level 2
- NVQ Lvl2 in professional cookery or equivalent
- Financial management within a kitchen environment