Executive Chef - Baycroft Kempston

We are One Housing, and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Care team is friendly, and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples’ lives, each and every day.

Join our Care team as a Care home Head Chef

Working in Care can be demanding, but our colleagues are always kind and compassionate no matter what challenges they encounter.

Working as a Head Chef is not only varied and interesting, it's incredibly rewarding. As part of our team you will be doing work you can be proud of, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our customers in their home.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Head Chef. Your responsibilities will include:

• To display exceptional leadership by providing a positive motivational work environment,
• communicating with employees as appropriate and demonstrating a professional approach to management.
• To oversee and provide direction for all day-to-day operations in the kitchen.
• Provide guidance and direction to the kitchen brigade, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. 
• To schedule and co-ordinate the work of the kitchen brigade to ensure that food presentation is technically correct, and of outstanding food quality 
• Maintain the safety of self and others at all times and report any accidents or dangerous occurrences immediately to the Home Manager.
• To demonstrate sound financial/business decision making, and work within pre- determined budgets ensuring operational needs and objectives are met. To ensure all food costs and labour are managed within the catering budgetTo develop seasonal and bespoke Menus by analyse and evaluate Resident’s needs and requirements as well as feedback from Resident’s families and relatives

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly. The successful candidate will:

• Experience of working as a Head Chef within a High end Care home establishment or similar environment (or Nursing Home)Knowledge of catering for the elderly and the important of nutrition and fortified diets where appropriate.
• Level 2 Diploma in Professional Cookery (awarded by ASET and City and Guilds) or 706 1/2
• Team and department management
• Stock management, Stocktaking, product ordering and accountability
• COSHH ‘Control of Substances Hazardous to Health’ trained and HASSAP aware
• Excellent Working knowledge of H&S legislation and Level 2/3 Food Safety Ceritficate
• Demonstrate good communications skills at all levels.

The offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Salary: £30000 - £34300
• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous

About us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.