Catering Manager

Home Group; West Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Catering Manager to ensure high-quality food delivery across multiple locations. This role involves managing budgets, planning menus, and leading café teams to enhance community engagement. Join a supportive team that values diversity and offers great benefits.

Benefits

34 days leave

Health cash plan

800+ high street discounts

Generous pension scheme

Flexible pay with Wagestream

Qualifications

• Experience managing catering operations or kitchen teams.
• Understanding of catering budgets and stock control.
• Experience creating menus for dietary needs.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing food delivery across extra care services.
• Planning menus and ensuring food safety.
• Managing several cafés and maintaining community engagement.

Skills

Food Hygiene

Catering Management

Budget Management

Supplier Relationships

Education

Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification

Job description

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Catering Manager
Working in our services across Leeds, Scarborough and Brighouse
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), Monday - Friday
Salary £30,600 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
As Catering Manager, you look after how food and drink is delivered across our extra care services. That means making sure our in-house teams and café leaseholders are doing a brilliant job, keeping everything safe, well-managed, and within budget.
You’re responsible for several cafés across your patch, keeping them lively, welcoming, and part of the local community. Whether it’s planning menus, checking food safety, or working with suppliers, you make sure everything runs smoothly and feels just right.
Typical day as a job title
- Checking stock issues with an in-house team to plan menus, making sure everyone’s dietary needs are covered.
- A quick kitchen walk through shows everything clean, compliant, and running smoothly.
- You review a budget, spot savings, and see quality food delivered within cost.
- You help wrap up café contracts, so they are sorted with no fuss.
- You end the day with a team check-in, making sure morale is high, and the service has gone well.
You’ll go home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
You have
- Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Previous experience managing catering operations or kitchen teams
- A solid understanding of catering budgets, stock control, and supplier relationships
- Experience creating and delivering menus for a variety of dietary needs
- To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship toexternalcandidates for this role. This remains under regular review
Our team
You’ll report to Gemma, our Operations Manager for the majority of the sites you'll cover, and work alongside her team of service managers to collaboratively get the best out of the cafes in our supported settings. We’re super passionate about what we do and really proud of the portfolio of extra care services we have developed! We’re now ready to take them to the next level!
Job details
- Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
- This is a hybrid role and you’ll spend your week shared across five sites within the region.
- Able to use technology for accurate record keeping
- You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39 days leave, the potential to buy 5 days leave (subject to criteria), and time off for volunteering!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary
- Enjoy flexible pay with Wagestream, allowing instant access to your earned wages whenever you need it, along with tools to budget, save, and manage your financial well-being.
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
Find out more
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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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