Head Chef

Job Title: Head Chef

Location: Chelmsford

Salary: £29,605 - £34,980 per year

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 12th June 2024

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

ARU's research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK's Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK's leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

The Role:

The Catering Service in Chelmsford currently operates a main restaurant, coffee shop and provides hospitality for meetings and events. Your role as Head Chef is to lead the Chef Team, ensure the smooth running of our kitchen, create and develop our menus, and produce high-quality freshly made food for ARU's students, staff, and external clients. This is a hands-on role with the majority of a typical day working in the kitchen. It's an exciting time to join our team - we've recently completed a major refurbishment of our largest catering outlet in Chelmsford and have a clear vision for the future of the Service.

You will be a passionate foodie with creative flair, who keeps up-to-date with food trends. You'll be particularly excited by street food, but you'll also be able to turn your hand to buffets and formal dinners. You'll have experience of working in a medium/large professional kitchen and possess a wide range of cookery skills, with a Level 3 qualification in Professional Cookery and a Level 3 Award in Food Safety. You'll have strong commercial awareness and be as comfortable costing menus as you are working in the kitchen. You'll be at ease liaising with suppliers, managing stock and placing orders.

Working hours will be mostly Monday-Friday during the day, however with advance notice there will be occasional evening and weekend work to cater for events. We offer paid overtime in return for additional hours worked. Our chef team don't work split shifts, and we offer bank holidays off in addition to a generous holiday entitlement.

If you're an experienced Head Chef or Sous Chef, with a positive attitude and a passion for food, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits:

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff to share this commitment.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Head Chef, Kitchen Manager, Catering Manager, Experienced Chef, Qualified Chef, Head Cook, Senior Chef, Executive Chef, Senior Cook, Experienced Cook will also be considered for this role.