Catering Manager
Posted 8 hours 50 minutes ago by Exemplar Health Care
Position: Catering Manager
Care home: Cheshire Springs
Location: Chester Road, Whitby, Ellesmere Port, CH65 6RY
Contract type: Full Time - 40 hours - weekends required
Rate: £14.00 per hour
About the role
As Catering Manager, you'll lead our Catering Team in providing healthy and inviting meals for the people we support. This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.
Key responsibilities- Managing the day-to-day running of the kitchen
- Preparing, cooking and serving food
- Understanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
- Ensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards
- Completing relevant checks and maintaining records
- Controlling stock and purchases within an allocated budget
- Leading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required
If you haven't worked in the care sector before, we'll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.
Who we are
Cheshire Springs is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with complex needs arising from mental health conditions, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities. We offer stable and secure employment opportunities, great benefits, and opportunities to learn, develop and progress.
Requirements & qualifications- Cook with flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements
- Creative in menu development and food preparation
- Excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a team
- Experience in managing a catering budget
- Adaptable and flexible
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification (or working towards)
- Previous experience in a similar management position, ideally leading a catering or kitchen team
- Excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- Access to wages before payday
- Retail and lifestyle reward discounts
- Free DBS check
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility
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Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We're unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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About Exemplar Health CareExemplar Health Care began as a healthcare consultancy and training firm. We now have more than 60 care homes across England, providing nursing care for adults with dementia, neuro-disabilities, mental health conditions, and physical disabilities. Inductions, mandatory and role-specific training are provided for all new colleagues. We offer opportunities to excel in care, nursing, management, quality or support roles.
We provide rewards including RCNi Learning access and NMC PIN payments for nurses, with additional lifestyle and retail discounts for all staff.