Chef full time in Welwyn Garden City

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week Contract: Permanent Executive Chef HCL are leading contract caterers with a focus on school feeding. We have a commitment to deliver high-quality, nutritious, and engaging food experiences for children and staff across our primary schools, secondary schools, and commercial sites. As a Skills and Mobilisation Chef at HCL, you will play a vital role in our training and mobilisation programme, as we delight our customers in Hertfordshire and expand our portfolio across London and the South of England. You will support across all sectors in maintaining HCL high expectation of standards, and support with menu development and practical hands-on training in all sectors, including new business ventures. Train menu compliance, cooking process and counter set ups within new business to ensure food production methods are adhered and purchasing compliance to ensure success of the HCL food values Quality Testing; Work with Food development team to product test in schools , train the culinary teams where we need remedial food training, service flow challenges and feedback recipe corrections or improvements required Create and deliver training courses and resources to embed knowledge and skills gaps across all sectors in existing and new contracts. Follow Quality Processes: Adhere and train standards inline with HCL Quality Audit (QA) processes and audit checklists. Monitor and review standards across the business, ensuring compliance with statutory food, allergen, What Good Looks Like (WGLL) food/nutrient standards, budgets, menu specifications, budget and quality control. Train, refresh, audit, and monitor all HCL food standards, policies, and procedures to ensure excellent service provision and continuous improvement in HCL facilities. Deliver comprehensive reports and data to support HR and operational training demands, identifying skills gaps and implementing training plans to support. Successfully mobilising, training and managing a new contract, building client relationships and adhering to HCL exemplary standards and best practice. Writing detailed and comprehensive reports documenting observations, training delivered, and recommendations to ensure a full circle of compliance. Experience and knowledge of delivering accredited food hygiene and allergy qualifications (Highfield accredited Trainer and Member). Experience of effective on the job training/coaching style that drives performance and encourages development. Confident and competent in training standards and compliance cross sector and multi-site settings (new business) or existing. Level 3 Food safety. Level 4 Advanced Food Safety. Level 3 Health and Safety. Level 3 MHFA (preferable). Level 3 Allergy Management. Level 3 Delivering Training Award. Level 3 Project Management. Level 3 Effective Auditing & Inspection.