Head Chef

This is a Head Chef role at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves managing and leading a culinary team to provide high-quality, nutritionally balanced meals for the residents. The successful candidate will have experience in the care or hospitality sectors, relevant catering qualifications, and a passion for delivering excellent culinary standards.

Main duties of the job

As a Head Chef at Avery Healthcare, you will be responsible for managing and leading a culinary team that provides nutritionally balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality culinary service to the residents. This includes preparing modified diets that look appealing and are well-balanced, placing food orders, supervising and directing the work of other kitchen staff, and practicing safe systems of work. The ideal candidate will have two years' experience managing a culinary team in the care or hospitality sectors, hold a relevant catering qualification, and demonstrate a passion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality culinary standards.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are committed to creating meaningful lives together and providing exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery Healthcare believes that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and they are passionate about creating a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Job responsibilities

Your focus as a Head Chef will be to manage and lead a culinary team that provides nutritionally balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality culinary service that contributes to the overall well-being of the residents and is achieved within budget.

• Preparing modified diets that look appealing and are well-balanced and in accordance with IDDSI guidance.
• Placing food orders, subject to appropriate levels of authority, with approved suppliers, complying with procedures to maintain appropriate stock levels and control, ensuring good quality provisions are purchased within agreed budget limits.
• Supervising and directing the work of other kitchen staff and the Host team, instructing and demonstrating simple food preparation activities to unqualified staff.
• Practicing safe systems of work across the range of tasks and moving and handling loads by assessing risk and having due regard for the personal safety of residents, visitors, and staff.

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:

• Two years experience managing a culinary team in the care or hospitality sectors.
• Hold a relevant catering qualification City & Guilds 706/1 and 706/2 or NVQ.
• Demonstrate passion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality culinary standards to residents.
• Demonstrate an ability to control a budget.

About Avery

At Avery, we're 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.

Mandatory requirements

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

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

Person Specification Qualifications

• The ideal candidate must have two years' experience managing a culinary team in the care or hospitality sectors and hold a relevant catering qualification City & Guilds 706/1 and 706/2 or NVQ.

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.