Commis Chef Apprentice

London South East Colleges is seeking to recruit a Commis Chef Apprentice to work within our BR6 restaurant at our Orpington Campus.
We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Commis Chef Apprentice. This is an excellent opportunity to start a career in the culinary field.
The Apprentice will support the kitchen operation for BR6, a sixty-cover restaurant as well as the connected Bakehouse and Terrace area, with direct line management of the Head Chef and senior kitchen team.
Skills and Experience:
The person appointed will be required to work flexibly within a team environment and will be allocated a range of duties and responsibilities.
Food & Health and Safety:

- Keep up to date with HACCP documents, ensuring they are filled out daily
- Ensure stations are kept clean and organised
- Keep on top of dishes in pot-wash during service
- Follow organisations cleaning procedures, reporting any faults to supervisor
- Ensure food is stored correctly – following F.I.F.O storage system
- Monitor kitchen equipment – reporting any faults to supervisor
- Ensure safe storing of equipment – knives, blades etc,
- Perform stock checks, informing supervisors of depleting stock
- Label food items for storage within organisations policy.
- Prepare (wash, cut, cook) vegetables, fruits and meats to specifications
- Assemble / cook dishes on the menu with consistent quality
- Receive deliveries, checking use-by dates, packaging quality, etc.

TheCollege
London South East Colleges is a successful and innovative College operating with sites across Bromley, Bexley, Orpington, Greenwich and Lambeth. With nearly 14,000 students and 1,000 members of staff, the College is a major employer in the area and makes a significant impact on the lives and future prospects of its learners who travel from across London to study with us. The College is also the sponsor of London South East Academies Trust, a growing Multi-Academy which is rapidly developing a track record of academic and financial success. With a combined turnover of circa£65m and the ambitious growth plans of the group, there has never been a better time to join this exciting organisation.

The benefits package includes annual leave of 27 days (excluding bank holidays) plus 3 efficiency closure days during Christmas, up to 2additional College closure days, and leave for volunteering (pro rata for part time staff).There are excellent pension schemes, including employer contributions(Teachers’ Pension Scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme or Nest). Staff also have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, free onsite parking, salary sacrifice cycle to work/bike loan scheme and annual season ticket loan. You will have access to onsite gym at Bromley, discounts in inhouse restaurants and hair and beauty treatments.

Accreditations
As employers, we recognise and embrace our legal and quality-assurance framework responsibilities, and use these frameworks, as well as other accreditations and schemes, to further develop our development and progress of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. We also acknowledge that there is always more that we can learn, and so we use these accreditations to provide an external lens and share/gain best-practice information.
As the College supports a number of children and vulnerable adults, all staff are exempt from Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Accordingly, all staff will be subject to an ‘Enhanced’ DBS (formerly CRB) check, along with a Children’s Barred List check if in regulated activity. Any offers of appointment may be withdrawn if these checks prove to be unsatisfactory to the College. Self-disclosure will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you fail to make a full disclosure or provide sight of your DBS certificate then your offer of employment is likely to be withdrawn. The College's DBS policy covers the recruitment of ex-offenders which is available upon request.

In line with KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education) guidance we conduct social media checks for all candidates who are shortlisted for roles in order to ascertain their suitability to work with children and young adults.