Venues Chef

About the Role

The food offer at Queen Mary Students’ Union is varied, wide ranging and integral to the student and staff experience at QMUL. From Street food stalls to corporate buffets and hospitality delivery across 3 sites, the role of the Venues chef is to lead from the front on menu development, procurement, training and quality control.

This is an opportunity to leave the 60-hour weeks of the hospitality industry behind you whilst being able to put your stance on menu development and training. A great role for a Head Chef who would like to improve their work life balance. This role is based across 3 campuses in Mile End, Whitechapel and Barbican.

The primary role of the Venues chef is to ensure you can lead a team of 2 full-time chefs and 15 student-staff ensuring our food delivery reaches the highest possible standards. You will be expected to lead the team, ensuring the highest safety standards, whilst keeping an eye on trends and opportunities to drive our food sales to the next level.

About You

You should be a ‘hands on’, organised and approachable leader who is committed to the values of the organisation, being a safe, friendly environment with the student experience at its core, by training them as your kitchen staff to assist in the management of the kitchen. This role’s hours would be predominantly Monday – Friday daytime, but an expectation of evening and weekend work is required in order to operate around the needs of the business and to appreciate the training needs of our student staff team.

Applicants should have excellent communication skills, have the ability to work with a wide range of people, must have the ability to work well under pressure, prioritise service and student staff development amongst other projects taking place.

About Queen Mary

At QMUL, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, campus facilities and membership of the Sport and Fitness Centre.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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