Head Chef

As a Head Chef you will be responsible for:

• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the kitchen and the delivery of consistent, high quality, delicious and nutritious dishes for our residents and their families.


• To ensure that our menus are not only healthy and nutritious, but also exciting, wholesome, tasty, unique, and sustainable.


• To be actively involved in daily operations ensuring recipes and instructions are followed accurately.


• To ensure that the teams have full awareness of the menu, ingredients and any potential dietary or allergies and they can articulate this effectively to our residents, their family members, and guests.


• To ensure that all data and information in relation to resident's dietary requirements, whether physical or system based are accurate, up to date, secure, confidential, and delivered.


• To build relationships with our residents and fully understand their needs and favourite dishes.


• Responsible for keeping up to date with relevant regulatory/statutory legislation, and ensure all health & safety, food safety, COSHH and other relevant legislation is adhered to.


• To review kitchen service standards alongside the Executive Chef, ensuring that the KYN team understand and are fully trained to deliver against our standards in every task.


• Effectively lead, manage, motivate, and develop a team who are empowered and feel that the work that they do is valued.


• Creating a team environment which promotes good morale and ensures a high level of commitment and pride in the home.


• Implement and maintain food monitoring procedures to facilitate budgetary control and to monitor all costs involved in the kitchen against agreed budgets.


• To control and monitor payroll costs by allocating labour resources in line with forecasted and actual business levels, using Company productivity ratios and payroll management.


• To ensure all stock is purchased, stored, and rotated correctly in accordance with KYN's policies and food safety regulations.


• To ensure that thorough audits are undertaken, implemented and action anything that has been highlighted in an efficient and timely manner.


• To keep up to date with industry developments and trends and work with the Executive Chef to adapt and translate these to align with KYN's vision as appropriate.
  
  You will have experience of working within a 4-5-star hospitality venue or restaurant.


• You will ideally have Level 3 Food Safety qualification.


• You will have the ability to cost food menus accurately and forecast demand and manage stock.


• You will be a professional, who has a proven track record of delivering and maintaining kitchen standards at the highest level - keeping a safe, clean, and compliant environment.


• You will have strong communication and influencing skills, an approachable manner, and an eye for detail.


• You will be passionate and can drive standards that not only meet but exceed expectations and elevate the lives of our residents.


• You will be trustworthy, caring, adaptable, friendly, and patient and continuingly striving for excellence.
  
  KYN is a brand-new care home company focused on offering an elevated approach to care: Individualised journeys built around the needs and interests of our residents in beautiful surroundings with life-enriching practices.


Our first home, KYN BICKLEY, opened in February 2023. KYN BICKLEY is an 86-bedroom home offering each resident an elegant and comfortable bedroom, communal areas for dining and reclining; and inviting outdoor terraces overlooking landscaped gardens bordered by woodland. We have a further three care homes in development in London.


• Competitive salary and benefits


• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays


• Complimentary meals, hot drinks, and snacks throughout your shift


• Bespoke company induction and on-going training programmes at all levels


• Access to the best-in-class equipment and technology


• Custom-made uniforms provided


• Annual bonus (discretionary and scheme rules apply)


• Employee assistance programme and other attractive wellbeing benefits


• Discount schemes


• Company contributory pension scheme


• And much more……