Simon Ward Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Chirk, Wales, United Kingdom

Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Chester, England, United Kingdom

Convetec, Deeside

Wirral

• I am currently employed as a chef tutor and assessor,and chef manager.• I run all functions from the kitchen ensuring back and of house and front of house is up to standard, these functions are run with apprentices and we can do up to 300 people,• I ensure all food is up to standard for the apprentices lunch and staff,• I am responsible for teaching and assessing apprentices to achieve a NVQ level 2 in professional cookery,• I teach the basic skills in a training kitchen… Show more • I am currently employed as a chef tutor and assessor,and chef manager.• I run all functions from the kitchen ensuring back and of house and front of house is up to standard, these functions are run with apprentices and we can do up to 300 people,• I ensure all food is up to standard for the apprentices lunch and staff,• I am responsible for teaching and assessing apprentices to achieve a NVQ level 2 in professional cookery,• I teach the basic skills in a training kitchen, • I perform a range of assessments both in the work placement and at the academy ensuring that the apprentices files are up to date and have the right evidence and making decisions on whether they can sign of units.• I am in charge of the running of the training kitchen ensuring all health and safety paperwork is in place and all resources that are needed are there to be used.• I work with apprentices in their employability skills, helping them on interview skills and job searches.• I perform regular reviews on each apprentice• I work with local restaurants and hotels to ensure that the apprentices are being treated right and getting the right training and ensuring health and safety is at the right standard in these Show less

• I had full control of the kitchen which included mentoring and developing 11 chefs and 3 kitchen porters.• One of my main duties was to keep to both the gross profit and the wages budget which I managed to do successfully from the commencement of my role.• I was responsible for the Health and Safety Regulations involving COSHH, risk assessments, and the general food hygiene in the kitchen and have maintained this at a high level since I began working there. I also ensured… Show more • I had full control of the kitchen which included mentoring and developing 11 chefs and 3 kitchen porters.• One of my main duties was to keep to both the gross profit and the wages budget which I managed to do successfully from the commencement of my role.• I was responsible for the Health and Safety Regulations involving COSHH, risk assessments, and the general food hygiene in the kitchen and have maintained this at a high level since I began working there. I also ensured that the chef whites, trousers, kitchen towels and aprons are all present and are clean to the highest possible standard.• I was a designated fire warden to ensure that all staff were removed from the building quickly in the event of a fire.• I was a building key holder • The restaurant is a busy city centre eatery with 100 covers and regularly serves over 200, sometimes exceeding this figure during the Chester Races meetings.• I enjoyed the development part of the role and was actively involved in designing and costing the new additions to the menu to make sure that the correct level of profit was achieved. I was responsible for training new staff members both management and line staff for positions in this restaurant and also others in the chain.• The most enjoyable part of my job was teaching new skills and improving the chef's under my charge.• I lead my team of chef's and the restaurant to winning best restaurant in Chester award in 2008 Show less

Duties were to prepare and cook a wide range of food in a number of different environments (Ranging from a cafeteria through to 5 star themed banquets and cooking for VIPS). • I have also worked in field catering and abroad in this role.• I co-ordinated the order and storage and goods and products. • I undertook the organisation and production of the monthly rota.• I acquired numerous certificates of Merit from Catering Competitions between joint forces.