Sous Chef

Overview

This role as a Sous Chef at Avery Healthcare offers the opportunity to work in an award-winning team, providing exceptional care and support to residents. You will be responsible for supporting the Head Chef in leading a culinary team, ensuring nutritionally balanced and high-quality meals are prepared within budget. The role requires a relevant catering qualification, a minimum of 1 year of catering experience, and a demonstrated commitment to delivering compassionate and high-quality culinary services.

Main duties of the job

As a Sous Chef, your focus will be to support the Head Chef in leading a culinary team that provides a nutritionally balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality culinary service, contributing to the overall well-being of the residents and achieved within budget. Other responsibilities include preparing modified diets that look appealing and are well-balanced, supervising and directing the work of culinary staff, and ensuring all food preparation meets the highest hygiene standards.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK\'s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care and creating meaningful experiences for both residents and team members. With over 100 homes across the country, Avery is committed to building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Job responsibilities

Package Description :

Shift Details : 7 am - 6 pm

At Avery Healthcare, we are about supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you\'ll be making a positive impact on residents\' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. As part of our close-knit team, you\'ll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We\'re looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Sous Chef. If this sounds like the place for you, we\'d love to hear from you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description :

Shift Details : 7 am - 6 pm

At Avery Healthcare, we are about supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you\'ll be making a positive impact on residents\' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. As part of our close-knit team, you\'ll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We\'re looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Sous Chef. If this sounds like the place for you, we\'d love to hear from you.

ABOUT THE ROLE

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 :

ABOUT AVERY

At Avery, we are not just one of the UK\'s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we\'re passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of “creating meaningful lives together,” we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Please note this role will require :

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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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