Catering Manager

Exemplar Health Care; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of nursing care, Exemplar Health Care, is looking for a Catering Manager to lead the kitchen team at Kavanagh Place care home in Liverpool. The role involves managing food preparation, creating nutrition-focused menus, and ensuring hygiene standards are met. As a key player in promoting well-being, you will be a creative cook with experience in menu development and team leadership. Great perks and a supportive environment await.

Benefits

Excellent supervision and 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

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing a kitchen team and catering budget.
• Creative in menu development and food preparation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day running of the kitchen.
• Prepare, cook, and serve nutritional meals.
• Ensure compliance with food hygiene standards.

Skills

Cooking

Budget Management

Menu Development

Team Coordination

Food Hygiene

Communication

Education

Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification

Job description

Catering Manager

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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. The home's Abbey Unit is exclusively for people who identify as male.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

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:

• managingthe day-to-day running of the kitchen
• preparing, cooking and servingfood
• understandingpeople’s needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
• ensuringyour Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards
• completingrelevant checks and maintaining records
• controllingstock and purchases within an allocated budget
• leading and managingyour Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

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.

Download our job description to read more: https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1030505883/

About you

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’.

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.