Head Chef Correctional Services (a)

Working for the Canton of Luzern means helping to shape the future - that of the canton, its inhabitants, and not least your own. More than 7'000 employees in 200 different professions contribute daily to the excellent quality of life in our canton. The Justizvollzugsanstalt Grosshof is a modern institution for closed deprivation of liberty. Here, short prison sentences as well as remand and preventive detention are served according to modern approaches. The "a" in the job title stands for "alle" (all). The Canton of Luzern stands for diversity and variety. Head Chef Correctional Services (a) # 80% - 100% | Kriens | Start on 01.11.2026 or by arrangement ## In the large kitchen of the JVA Grosshof, committed persons cook together under your guidance - every day, for people. You support them professionally and pedagogically in their challenging life situations during their work in the kitchen, where cooperation, safety, and resocialization exert a perceptible impact. Your tasks • You manage the kitchen department personally and organizationally with three employees and ensure smooth kitchen operations. • In everyday kitchen life, you actively participate, accompany eight committed persons at their workplace, and instruct them professionally within the framework of the pedagogical mission. • You create duty and deployment schedules for the employees as well as the committed persons employed as kitchen assistants in a forward-looking and demand-oriented manner. • You are responsible for menu planning, carry out the purchase of food in accordance with budget specifications, and prepare around 280 meals daily for committed persons, employees, and guests; in doing so, you take into account vegetarian, culture-specific, and medically prescribed diets. • In the closed deprivation of liberty, you undertake security tasks and maintain professional closeness and distance in dealing with the committed persons. Your profile • You have completed training as a Cook EFZ and bring several years of professional experience in a communal or large-scale kitchen. • Leadership experience as well as corresponding leadership training enable you to lead employees clearly, appreciatively, and reliably. • You are experienced in instructing and accompanying persons from different cultures who are external to the industry, and you convey the necessary work steps understandably and patiently even to people without kitchen knowledge. • You have already completed pedagogical further training or you are willing to acquire such. • Good Microsoft Office and oral foreign language skills, as well as the willingness to work on weekends, round off your profile. Justiz- und Sicherheitsdepartement Dienststelle Militär, Zivilschutz und Justizvollzug Bruno Keller Leiter Bereich Arbeit & Dienstleistungen \+41 41 228 6415 https://grosshof.lu.ch/