Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of creating meaningful lives together. They are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Sous Chef to join their award-winning team and make a positive impact on residents' lives every day.
Main duties of the job
As a Sous Chef, you will support the Head Chef in leading a culinary team that provides a nutritionally balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality culinary service, which contributes to the overall well-being of the residents and is achieved within budget. Your responsibilities will include preparing modified diets, supervising and directing the work of culinary staff, ensuring food safety and hygiene standards, and supporting the team in understanding Avery's food safety management system.
Job responsibilities
Your focus as Sous Chef will be to support the Head Chef in leading a culinary team that provides a nutritionally balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality culinary service, which contributes to the overall well-being of the residents and is achieved within budget.
Other responsibilities will include:
* Preparing modified diets that look appealing and are well-balanced and in accordance with IDDSI guidance.
* Supervising and directing the work of culinary staff, as directed by the Head Chef, providing instruction and demonstration to unqualified staff on simple food preparation activities.
* Understanding the principles of safe food handling to ensure that all food preparation undertaken in the kitchen meets the highest hygiene standards.
* Supporting all culinary team members in fully understanding the Avery Food safety management system.
About you
To be successful in your application, you must live our values of caring, support, honesty, respect, and accountability in all that you do.
Our ideal candidate must:
* Hold a relevant catering qualification City & Guilds 706/1 and 706/2 or NVQ or equivalent.
* Have a minimum of 1 year of catering experience.
* Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality culinary services to residents.
* Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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