Benefits
* Medicash - Healthcare benefits, including dental, optical and therapy treatments (includes up to 4 dependent children)
* Entertainment discounts - up to 55% off cinema tickets
* Health & Wellbeing discounts - Discounts for Nuffield Health (20%) and Pure Gym (10%)
* Travel discounts - Discounts with holiday companies such as TUI and Expedia
* Shopping discounts - Save up to 15% at high street and online stores by purchasing Shopping Cards
* Pension scheme and Life Assurance
* Employee Assistance Programme
* 23 days + BH's and additional day off for your birthday
* 2 days additional leave, following return from Maternity leave during first year back
* Competitive and supportive family benefits
* Day off for baby's first birthday
* On-going training & development and career pathways
* Financial wellbeing programme and preferred rates on salary finance products
Responsibilities
* Confident to lead and manage the hotel culinary team to deliver all catering requirements.
* Motivate the culinary team, encouraging collaborative thinking and solidarity.
* Work in collaboration with Head of Nutrition and Women’s Team Head Chef to continually develop and strategically deliver performance focused menus, through planning measures.
* Ensure all culinary offers strive to exceed the First Team’s needs.
* Recognise the limitations of offsite catering delivery and continually search for innovative solutions.
* Assist the Women’s Team Head Chef and Executive Head Chef in sourcing local, high-quality produce in line with an elite performance culture and Compass supply chain.
* Work with the culinary team to ensure all delivery notes are checked against requisitions, ensuring any discrepancies are identified and reported to the supplier.
* Liaise in advance with CFC and destination hotel regarding menus, mealtimes, travel arrangements and all logistical considerations.
* Travel with or in advance of the Women’s Team players and staff to the destination hotel and meet with chef and FOH manager to discuss service and expectations.
* Ensure meetings are pre-arranged with hotel team on arrival to go through quality checks, timings, restaurant layout and Health and safety.
* Oversee bedrooms F&B provision are up to CFC standards.
* Return with Women’s Team players or staff, offering catering and previously agreed on any coach journeys.
* Embrace all client feedback, with the view to continually develop and improve.
* Confidently communicate with client to enhance culinary offerings and exceed client requests.
* Endorse the presence of the kitchen team in a FOH capacity, encouraging customer communication and teamwork.
* Encourage the sharing of creative ideas across the culinary team, striving for best practice.
* Manipulate and use other units and industry practices, constantly comparing and improving the home site.
* Collaboratively create and produce innovative recipes to meet specific sport nutrition requirements.
* Regular review of the food safety management system and effective controls at identified critical control points and throughout the food handling process.
* Ensure the culinary team are adhering to all relevant HSE procedures, acting as a motivator for the FOH and BOH team to work safely.
* Work closely with Head Chef and Operations Manager to ensure that high standards of cleanliness and safety are always maintained throughout all areas of the kitchen.
* Ensure hotels are following HSE guidelines.
Qualifications
* Ability to communicate concisely, assertively, and effectively at all levels of the business.
* Ability to prioritise between conflicting demands.
* Good people skills, good leadership, and organisational skills.
* Experience of working with hotel chefs for away fixtures to ensure delivery of a Levy standard of catering.
* Experience of menu planning.
* Evidence of continual professional development and a desire to increase sport nutrition knowledge.
* Experience of working within professional sport.
* Understanding the boundaries with players presence within the traveling environment.
* Must be able to work flexible hours on both weekdays, weekends and evenings.
* Food Hygiene Certificate Level 3 or above.
* High standards and quality driven.
* A ‘can do’ attitude.
* Display a positive attitude with guests, colleagues, and all stakeholders.
* Lead by example.
* To work on a flexible shift rota according to the needs of the business, this can be allocated across the various operations and in line with the business needs.
* To support whole management team as required.
* To ensure that holidays are taken subject to the needs of the business and not carried forward according to the company policy.
* To always act as an ambassador for the company and club.
Additional Information
* Free Staff meals.
* Job skill enhancement training and courses available.
* Company pension scheme.
* Exclusive benefits & Wellbeing (Perks at work).
* Clock in on the Rotacloud app upon arrival at Cobham Training Facility.
* Clock out of your shift when you finish work and go to your hotel room/accommodation.
* Time travelling to and from Cobham Training Facility or a London based station/airport is classed as unpaid commuting time.
* All long-term travel such as flights, extensive train journeys or travel with the team is included in your working hours.
* Days off not spent working (e.g. personal time, site-seeing etc) should not be clocked in for.
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