Regional Chef Manager - South

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.; Região Sul; Presencial; BRL 80.000 - 100.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading elderly care provider in Brazil is seeking an experienced Regional Chef Manager to oversee kitchen teams and deliver high-quality meals for residents. The ideal candidate will have experience in a care home environment, relevant qualifications, and a UK driving license. This position involves managing food safety, supervising kitchen staff, and catering to dietary needs. Join us to make a positive impact on residents' dining experiences.

Serviços

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Mileage and overnight stay expenses covered

Access to excellent training

Career development opportunities

Qualificações

• Experience overseeing kitchen teams and ensuring food safety standards.
• Full UK driving license and access to own vehicle.
• Creativity in developing menu options for residents.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise and coach kitchen teams in food preparation.
• Manage kitchen rota and oversee food purchasing.
• Prepare and cater for residents' dietary needs.

Conhecimentos

Experience as a Chef in a Care Home environment

NVQs in Cooking

Food Hygiene and Health and Safety

IDDSI Training

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for both residents and employees. This Regional Chef Manager role covers the South region, overseeing the kitchen teams to deliver high-quality, nutritious meals and the overall dining experience for residents.

Main duties of the job

The Regional Chef Manager will work across multiple Avery Healthcare homes in the South region, providing supervision, mentoring, and coaching to the kitchen teams. They will be responsible for ensuring food safety, health, and safety standards are met, managing the kitchen rota, overseeing food purchasing and deliveries, and catering for all resident dietary requirements. The role requires experience in a care home environment, relevant qualifications, and a UK driving license.

About us

Avery Healthcare is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together'. They offer a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered, with a focus on exceptional care and enriching experiences for residents.

Job responsibilities

Package Description: At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and were here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you’ll be making a positive impact on residents’ lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We’re committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close‑knit team, you’ll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We’re now looking for a highly motivated, experienced and dedicated individual to join our award‑winning team as a Regional Chef Manager covering our homes in the South. If you are looking for a new challenge with an organisation who is committed to delivering the best culinary experience for our residents, we’d love to hear from you!

About the role

The role will assist in covering Chef Manager positions at home level where we have vacancies, annual leave or extended periods of absence. The role will oversee and be responsible for all kitchen team members in the preparation, cooking and delivering the full dining experience. This includes high‑quality, home‑cooked nutritional meals and snacks for residents and visitors which contribute to the overall wellbeing of the residents within the budgets agreed.

Key responsibilities

• To work in conjunction with other departments within the home to ensure the overall culinary experience is consistently delivered to a high standard to all residents, visitors and team members.
• To provide supervision, mentoring and coaching for all kitchen team members using instruction and demonstration to maximise and develop all kitchen team members’ skills to their full potential.
• To ensure all food safety & health & safety documentation is up to date and completed to ensure safe practices and meeting EHO guidelines.
• To manage, co‑ordinate and oversee the kitchen rota for all catering team members.
• To oversee food purchasing and deliveries using nominated suppliers for the homes you are covering. Receipting of goods using company processes, procedures and online systems.
• Prepare and cook all daily meals for residents, and provide catering for special occasions and events, such as individual birthday cakes.
• To cater for all resident nutritional needs such as special diets and allergies meeting where appropriate IDDSI guidelines.
• Flexibility and creativity to develop specials menus meeting resident requirements.

About you

• Experience as a Chef in a Care Home environment.
• NVQs in Cooking, Food Hygiene and Health and Safety.
• IDDSI Training and knowledge of textured modified diets.
• A full UK driving license and access to your own vehicle.

Benefits

We offer you a great range of benefits, which include:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays per annum.
• Mileage and overnight stays (if required) expenses covered.
• Access to excellent training including detailed induction into the role, textured modified diet training, company mandatory training.
• Career development opportunities.

Please note this role will require:

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experience as a Chef in a Care Home environment, NVQ’s in Cooking, Food Hygiene and Health and Safety, IDDSI Training and knowledge of textured modified diets.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.