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Chef

• Salary: £9.00per hour
• Reference: RL7999
• Permanent – Full-time
• Closing Date – 10^th March 2019

THE POSITION:

Castle Hospitality division have an exciting opportunity and are recruiting for an Experienced Chef for a local unique hospitality client based on the outskirts of Whitby, North Yorkshire area. 

REPORTING TO: Hotel Manager/Hotel Directors

JOB PURPOSE: To manage the preparation and delivery of all meals. To work with other chefs and kitchen staff to ensure all meals are prepared and delivered to a high standard in a timely manner.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Previous culinary experience
• Good communication skills
• Team player
• Highly organised
• An excellent understanding of hygiene and commitment to a clean working environment
• Knowledge / experience of health and safety legislation

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• To ensure that all meals are prepared and presented to an agreed high standard and high quality.
• To ensure that any special dietary meals are prepared.
• To ensure that adequate stock controls are in place.
• Prioritise workload and where necessary allocate tasks to relevant kitchen staff.
• Create and maintain cooking and cleaning regimes (daily, weekly, periodically etc) for all areas of the kitchen in line with hotel standards.
• To ensure all aspects of the meal preparation areas within the hotel operates to agreed standards and are kept clean and tidy.
• To help train, monitor and guide staff while working in the kitchen, in the preparation of meals ensuring their food leaves the kitchen to a very high standard
• To ensure that all new procedures, new recipes and menus are recorded and communicated to all the team.
• To contribute to menus in advance in a regular and varied way where requested
• To ensure that an inventory of kitchen equipment is updated and managed. To ensure all equipment used is safe and clean, reporting any issues to the Hotel Manager.
• To ensure that proper quality control systems are adopted for all aspects of the meal preparation
• To ensure that food handling, cleanliness, health, safety, risk assessments and that all procedures required within the meal preparation areas operate to the highest possible standards and completing all documentation required legally
• To ensure that the meal preparation areas operate to current and any future legal or regulatory requirement.

Communication:

• Participate in Staff meetings as required.
• Undertake daily stock checks.
• Liaise with the Hotel Manager/Directors regarding COSHH training
• Help supervise and instruct junior and new Staff Members in all aspects of their work in the kitchen giving help and guidance where appropriate.
• Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required.
• Report immediately to the Hotel Manager/Directors any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a customer, colleague, self or another.
• Report to the Hotel Manager/Directors, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
• Promote and ensure the good reputation of the Hotel.
• Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained during duty is not divulged to third parties.
• Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
• Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained.
• Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.

Hours of work: 6.30am-3.00pm for breakfast shift or 12pm-9.30pm - Late shift

Own Transport would be required due to location.

For further details please contact Tina Tout at Castle Hospitality on 01723 500643 and email your CV to tina@castle-employment.co.uk