Chef (EHS0295-0921)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

You will have experience in the preparation and service of food and beverages, including catering in volume, preparing a buffet and working with restaurant menus and to standardised recipes. You will also have experience of working in a fast-paced kitchen environment, ideally within a contract catering or a la carte establishment.

You will have good interpersonal skills, strong customer focus and drive for continuous improvement through our ‘success through customer care’ brand. You will also share our commitment to providing the highest levels of customer service. 

Above all, you will be enthusiastic, creative and have an ability to adopt appropriate communication styles to meet customer and support service requirements, which will ensure that you establish yourself as a key member of our award-winning team.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head Chef, you will be part of a team responsible for producing freshly prepared food using seasonal and quality ingredients. You will have day to day contact with our customers which will be in any of our kitchens, catering outlets and high-profile special events throughout the year. 

FM Catering Services is a professional, customer focused, income generating operation, which aims to provide excellence in catering provision for the University. This is achieved through the effective and efficient provision of high quality, value for money catering services to University staff, students and associated commercial hospitality business activities. 

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 22 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

You’ll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student experience and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Jacqueline Larsen, Catering & Events Operations at ManagerLarsenj@edgehill.ac.uk 

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Closing Date: 01 Oct 2021
Category: Support