Caterer/Chef - HMP Bure

Job description

*More than just a kitchen.*

*Become a caterer in the prison service.*

As part of the catering team you will play a vital role in helping offenders to prepare and cook meals in a rewarding, team environment.

It is a great chance to put catering qualifications into real-life practice and have an impact far beyond the kitchen.

Your food will sustain a whole prison and your work with offenders will help to make a positive contribution towards their rehabilitation.

This is a great opportunity to put your catering qualifications into practice and have an impact far beyond the kitchen. Join a professional environment where you'll help offenders prepare and cook meals for the entire prison, while they learn new skills which can help them turn their lives around.

The quality of food has a real impact on prison morale and you will use your skills to create quality, nutritional meals every day. As part of the catering team, you will mentor and oversee the work of offenders who are keen to learn and work towards a qualification which will increase their chances of employment, and reduce their likelihood of reoffending, when they leave custody.

*Overview of the job*

This is a delivery role within an establishment requiring an appropriate trade.

*Summary*

The job holder will be a Caterer by trade and will deliver catering services to prisoners within the establishment operating associated equipment in a safe and secure manner.

This is a non-operational job with no line management responsibilities.

*Responsibilities, Activities and Duties*

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

* Work with prisoners in the kitchens, supporting them to work in a safe and efficient manner, making sure that security is maintained.
* Prepare and cook food, ensuring effective use of ingredients to reduce waste, providing catering for specialist diets on the grounds of religious beliefs and medical issues.
* Prepare food order and other catering goods as required, for authorisation by managers; check in any deliveries for the kitchen and ensure stock rotation.
* Co-ordinate resources, including food, ingredients and staff/prisoner workforce to deliver the day to day catering requirements of the establishment.
* Serve food in the kitchen or hotplate areas; visit residential areas to check hygiene standards and food servery activity as required.
* Undertake food trolley delivery and collection, which may involve the use of a delivery vehicle.
* Contribute to the review of catering practice in the kitchens consistency across the unit in the application of policies and procedures that affect prisoners and staff.
* Ensure prisoners comply with relevant Health and Safety policies when carrying out duties within the kitchen.
* Participate in the selection process of prisoners for kitchen duties.
* Completes regime monitoring information and update prisoner training records.
* Ensure all tools and equipment are safe, secure and properly accounted for and report maintenance and repair when required in line with Local Security Strategy and National Security Framework.
* Assist in the delivery of training to prisoners.
* Maintain regular communications via radio net in accordance with Local Security Strategy (LSS).
* Undertake regular tool checks in line with Local Security Strategy and National Security Framework.
* Comply with all Food Safety, Health and Safety policies and legislation.
* Rub down and pat down search prisoners as required by management.
* Operate within command mode, in-line with local contingency plans.
* Open and complete Assessment Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) forms, Violence Reduction Incident Reports (VRIR) and Security Information Reports (SIRs) when required and contribute to Incentive Earned Privileges (IEP) reports.
* Ensure all daily monitoring records that support food safety systems and procedures are completed.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh.

*Experience*

Must be able to demonstrate competency within an industrial kitchen environment.

*Technical Requirements*

Must have a Vocational Qualification at Level 3 or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification within an agreed timescale.

You must hold the following essential qualifications; level 2 certificate in Food Production within Hospitality and Catering or equivalent. Additionally, you must hold a Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2, they are required be familiar with all current health, safety and hygiene related regulations for working in a kitchen. Refresher training in Food Safety (HACCP) should be completed at 3 year intervals.

*Benefits*

· Annual Leave

· Bank, Public and Privilege Holidays

· Pension

· Work Life Balance

· Season Ticket Advance

· Childcare Vouchers

· Training

To apply, please visit our website

Closing date: 23:55 hours, 17 December 2021.

_We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria._

Reference ID: 48773

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £23,144.00-£25,697.00 per year

Schedule:
* 8 hour shift

Experience:
* Chef: 1 year (preferred)