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Head Chef

Job details
Posting date: 28 May 2024
Salary: £28,000.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 June 2024
Location: Altrincham, England, M90 5AA
Company: Baxterstorey
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 1092970251

Summary

Job Description

  • Amazon Manchester M90 5AA
  • Full-time
  • Employment Type: Permanent
  • Hours Per Week: 40.00
  • Salary: Up to £30,000

Company Description

HEAD CHEF OPPORTUNITY!!

We have fantastic opportunity to join our team in Manchester near the airport

40 Hours per week £30000 per annum + Paid Overtime

This is a fantastic opportunity for an inspirational and enthusiastic Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the food service industry.

In return we offer support and development to grow within our business alongside a competitive salary

Benefits:

  • Salary - £30000 per annum
  • 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
  • Plus your birthday off
  • 3 volunteering days
  • 3 days grandparent leave.
  • 24 weeks' enhanced maternity leave
  • Secondary carer leave
  • Wedding/commitment day leave.
  • Free meals on shift.
  • Bespoke training and development opportunities
  • Apprenticeships opportunities for all experience levels
  • Pension and life insurance.
  • Discounts available from HAPI app, from high street shops to holidays & cinema.
  • Wellbeing hub.
  • Access to employee assistance programme.
  • Cycle to work scheme.

Calling all culinary connoisseurs that are OBSESSED about food, we need you! If you have an insatiable appetite for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create food that delights customers and clients, then look no further. At BaxterStorey we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish, your talents can shine and we wholeheartedly believe in nourishing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve, refine their craft and create a development partnership together to ensure professional growth opportunities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a established Head Chef to make a name for themselves within the Contract Catering food service industry and be a part of setting the new standard for workplace hospitality.

Job Description

This is a seven-day operation requiring a Head Chef .We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who can inspire and lead our great team and share their wealth of experience.

WHAT WILL KEEP YOU BUSY:

  • Ensure that the location achieves, as a minimum, the financial targets agreed with the client in line with the budget
  • Monitor the work of all the staff and carry out appraisals, recognise training needs and potential as appropriate
  • Hold team meetings on a regular basis to communicate targets, standards required and company and client information
  • Work with your General Manager to prepare budgets; achieve and maintain the food cost in accordance with the budget
  • Develop and evolve all client’s services at location, ensuring regular adjustments and improvements are both recommended and implemented

Qualifications

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

  • Thrive on getting the best out of people and maximising commercial opportunities
  • Excellent kitchen management skills
  • Fresh ideas menus
  • Draw satisfaction from managing, training and supporting a team
  • Provide a professional catering service, ensuring that company standards are maintained and that Client expectations are met
  • Previous experience in a Head Chef role ideally Contract Catering, Events or Hotel / Conferencing
  • Strong understanding of report writing and financial management.
  • Excellent supervisory and communication skills
  • Good delegation and influencing skills
  • Able to demonstrate your analytical approach to problem solving
  • Ability to display a real passion for food and customer service
  • Hands on approach

Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is

amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local

communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce.

The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each team member to feel respected and able to give their best.

And to support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ED&I (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.



Company Description

Title: Head Chef

Location: M90 5AA

Salary: £30k

Benefits:

  • 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
  • Plus your birthday off
  • 3 volunteering days
  • 3 days grandparent leave.
  • 24 week’s enhanced maternity leave.
  • hospitality.


Qualifications

  • Proven experience working as a Head Chef or similar role
  • Have an obsession for food and creating experiences
  • You can demonstrate that managing, training, and supporting a team has been an important part of your career to date
  • Financially astute, you are very analytical and know how to create and maintain budgets and drive commercial performance
  • Excellent coaching, delegation and influencing skills
  • Ability to prioritise multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to thrive under pressure
  • Meticulous organisational abilities and a high attention to detail
  • Empathetic, clear and highly effective verbal and written communication
  • Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
  • Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
  • Works according to the BaxterStorey core values


Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is

amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local

communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.



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