Head Chef

Head Chef

Job summary

Role: Head Chef
Unit: St Genevieve's High School

Passionate about food? Want to develop your career with the world's leading food service management company? Look no further, we, the leading foodservice and hospitality provider across the Island of Ireland, are looking for a Head

Chef to join our talented team. This is a permanent contract working 32.5 per week.

As Head Chef you will produce outstanding food using the finest and freshest ingredients while also leading your team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, organise and direct the preparation and cooking of food to ensure the company's reputation for quality is enhanced with customers and clients at all times
• Take responsibility for the food production with a hands-on approach
• Lead the team to continually deliver their best and focus on excellence at all times
• Drive sales through centrally driven menu planning and promotions and preferred suppliers
• Manage all aspects of food safety, H&S and COSHH
• Implement and maintain food monitoring procedures to facilitate budgetary control and to monitor all costs involved in the kitchen against agreed budgets

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum 1 year proven similar experience in managing and leading a kitchen team of at least 5 people
• Demonstrate innovation and strategic direction in food planning and menu development
• Passion about food and customer service
• Knowledge of working to a budget and achieving GP
• Experience in a similar environment
• Culinary qualification
• Compass Group reserves the right to enhance the criteria, if necessary, for the purposes of shortlisting.

Some of the benefits we offer:

• Free meals while at work
• Receive Wow Points when you use the platform on a wide range of brands, activities and more
• Additional, seasonal and overtime hours available
• Career Pathways to support career progression and/or skills development
• Learning & development programs available alongside access to hundreds of online training courses for personal and professional development & growth
• Flexible Working to support Work Life Balance
• Additional Leave Purchase scheme to balance home and work life
• Access to wellness programs to promote mental health and wellbeing of our colleagues
• Employee Assistance Program to guide and support our employees
• Exciting internal reward and recognition schemes
• Regular emails filled with the best discounts and savings available
• And many more

About Us:

At Compass Ireland, our people are our business. When you join the Compass Group you will be joining a supportive network of incredible individuals, each united by their passion for going the extra mile for the organisations we partner with. We are building a team who care about providing a great customer experience and want to grow and develop as we do. We are dedicated to investing in every colleague joining us. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of religious belief, political opinion, gender, race, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or whether or not they have dependents.We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees.

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