Catering Manager

The Cambian Group; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambian Lufton College is seeking a Catering Manager to oversee all catering activities within the establishment, ensuring nutritious, attractive meals and managing a team of catering staff. The role includes delivering learning sessions and work experience related to hospitality and catering.

The post involves teaching responsibility and supervising students, with a focus on safety, quality, and budget control in a residential education setting. 40 hours per week, on-site in Yeovil.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in food preparation and cooking or catering and hospitality.
• Current First Aid at Work certificate.
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements in a catering environment.
• Experience of menu planning to meet dietary requirements and provide nutritional balance.
• Experience of teaching or supervising students within a kitchen environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan menus in advance and meet dietary needs of students while following care, education and clinical team programmes.
• Prepare, cook and present meals to a high nutritional standard for a range of occasions.
• Manage catering staff rotas and timetables and open site kitchens for lunches.
• Ensure compliance with food preparation, cooking and storage regulations.
• Maintain stock levels, place orders with approved suppliers, and monitor catering budgets and invoices.
• Ensure kitchen equipment is safe, maintained and securely stored when not in use.
• Maintain a clean, hygienic kitchen environment and monitor safety and waste.
• Supervise students on work experience placements in the college refectory and report on progress.
• Deliver and assess student knowledge and skills for City & Guilds Food Preparation and Cooking Level 1 and related qualifications.

Skills

Menu planning

Teaching / supervising students

Health and safety knowledge

First Aid at Work

Education

Relevant catering qualification

Job description

Hours: 40 hours per week, 7:30am to 3:30pm

Cambian Lufton College is a specialist residential education provider for 16 to 25-year olds with Autism, learning disabilities, and complex behavioural and emotional needs. The college provides a 2-3-year pathway to prepare our students for adulthood, equipping them with the skills and qualities required to lead a fulfilled, independent and ambitious life.

The Role

The role of the Catering Manager involves being responsible for all aspects of catering within the establishment and ensuring that the kitchen produces attractive food to a high nutritional standard for a range of meals and occasions.

The Catering Manager is also responsible for delivering learning sessions for students and providing internal work experience relating to hospitality and catering, therefore there is some teaching and assessment responsibility.

The Catering Manager will also be responsible for managing other catering staff, this role therefore draws upon a range of practical skills, requires a sound knowledge base and the ability to relate to colleagues and the young people who live and study here.

Main Responsibilities

• To plan menus in advance, ensure full dietary needs of the students are met and implementing programmes put forward by the care, education and clinical teams.
• To prepare, cook and attractively present meals according to set standards, in order to provide a well-balanced nutritional menu. This includes catering for visitors and special occasions.
• To be responsible for the effective operation of the kitchen, including managing rota’s and timetables for catering staff and the opening of both site kitchens and personalisation for lunches.
• To ensure that regulations relating to food preparation, cooking and storage are complied with.
• To ensure adequate stock of appropriate provisions. This will involve ordering in good time from approved suppliers, checking deliveries and invoices and monitoring the catering budget.
• To ensure that kitchen equipment is safe to use, maintained in working order and securely stored when not in use.
• To monitor and maintain a high standard of kitchen environment, paying particular attention to cleanliness/hygiene, safety, damage/wastage, tidiness and good order.
• To supervise students on work experience placements in the college refectory, to report on their progress and collaborate with other teaching staff to agree educational and vocational goals for students identified as having employment goals relating to hospitality and catering.
• To deliver and assess students knowledge and skills in line with qualification criteria, as the tutor responsible for delivery of City & Guilds Food Preparation and Cooking (Level 1) and for any additional qualifications relating to hospitality and catering at Entry Level/Level 1, such as Food Hygiene.

Person Specification

• Relevant qualification in food preparation and cooking or catering and hospitality.
• Current First Aid at Work certificate (may be achieved in post)
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements in a catering environment.
• Experience of menu planning to meet dietary requirements and provide nutritional balance.
• Experience of teaching or supervising students within a kitchen environment.

We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

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