Catering Manager

Exemplar Health Care Group.; Liverpool; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Catering Manager to lead their kitchen team at a care home in Liverpool. This role offers a unique opportunity to create delicious and nutritious meals tailored to the dietary needs of residents. You will manage kitchen operations, ensuring high standards of food hygiene while fostering a supportive team environment. With excellent training and career development opportunities, this position allows you to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those you serve. Join a team that values integrity, responsiveness, and teamwork in a rewarding culinary role.

Benefits

Excellent supervision and peer support

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle reward discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a catering management role, ideally in a care setting.
• Ability to create nutritious meals for diverse dietary needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day kitchen operations and lead the catering team.
• Prepare and serve meals while ensuring compliance with hygiene standards.
• Develop menus based on residents' preferences and dietary requirements.

Skills

Culinary Skills

Menu Development

Team Leadership

Food Hygiene Standards

Budget Management

Communication Skills

Education

Level 3 Food Hygiene Qualification

Job description

Position: Catering Manager
Care home: Kavanagh Place
Location: Kirkdale, Liverpool
Contract type: Full Time - 40 Hours per week, Weekends required
Rate: £13.27
Care home CQC rating: Good

Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Kavanagh Place care home in Liverpool.

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.

About Exemplar Health Care

Kavanagh Place is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. We support adults living with complex mental health needs, complex dementia and physical disabilities.

About the role

Our Catering Managers cook delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements. No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

1. Managing the day-to-day running of the kitchen.
2. Preparing, cooking and serving food.
3. Understanding people’s needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus.
4. Ensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards.
5. Completing relevant checks and maintaining records.
6. Controlling stock and purchases within an allocated budget.
7. Leading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do. 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.

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You’re also:

• A cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements.
• Creative in menu development and food preparation.
• An excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a team.
• Experienced in managing a catering budget.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

We like our Catering Managers to have, or be working towards, a Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification. As this is a management position, we expect you’ll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• 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.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail].

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.