Catering Manager - Pershore

Caterlink Ltd; Pershore; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A catering company specializing in education is seeking a Catering Manager at Pershore College, England. The successful candidate will prepare nutritionally balanced meals, ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, and manage daily operations. The role offers 37.5 hours of work per week, and requires an essential Level 2 Food and Health and Safety certificate. Benefits include a blended learning program, employee discount platform, wellbeing services, and potential pension eligibility.

Benefits

Blended learning programme for professional development

Employee Discount Platform

Access to Wellbeing Services

Potential eligibility for pension scheme

Qualifications

• Level 2 Food and Health and Safety certificate is essential.
• Enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook and present food to required standards.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety and Food Safety requirements.
• Enhance the company's reputation with clients.
• Oversee day-to-day running of the location and manage teams.
• Be the main point of contact for the client, ensuring improvements.
• Communicate regularly with the line manager to meet targets.
• Support and train teams to excel in their roles.
• Manage summer camp for overseas students during summer holidays.
• Oversee running of coffee outlet.

Skills

Level 2 Food and Health and Safety certificate

Job description

We are hiring for a Catering Manager at Pershore College, Pershore who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. This role works 52 weeks per year, with occasional weekend and evening work.

Key Job Details

• Pay: £19.50 per hour
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
• Leaves: 20 days holiday annually

Responsibilities

• To prepare, cook and present food to the standards required by Caterlink and the client
• To ensure that the location meets statutory and company requirements of Health and Safety, Food Safety and environmental legislations and procedures
• To ensure that the company's reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers and expectations are consistently exceeded
• To be responsible for the day-to‑day running of the location and supervising teams including managing inventories, monitoring budgets, and implementing action plans
• To be the main point of contact for our client in your school ensuring that regular adjustments and improvements are both recommended and implemented
• Communicating regularly with your line manager to monitor KPIs and financial targets to ensure these are achieved
• Supporting and training our teams, leading from the front to make sure everyone can excel in their role by ensuring all training is completed and performance is managed
• To manage summer camp for overseas students while the college is closed during the summer holidays
• To oversee the running of coffee outlet

Qualifications & Requirements

• Level 2 Food and Health and Safety certificate (essential)
• Enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role

Benefits

• Blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications such as apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning and on‑the‑job training to support and encourage your development
• Access to our Employee Discount Platform for savings at supermarkets, cinema, restaurants and holiday discounts
• Full access to our Wellbeing Services including the Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits, available free of charge for you and your family
• Potential eligibility to join our pension scheme

Caterlink strives to always provide a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all our teams where every individual is treated with respect, integrity and has the opportunity to grow and be treated equally and with fairness at all times. Caterlink is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment.

Caterlink is the education sector catering specialist. For over 20 years, the company has delivered fresh food solutions to pupils and staff at primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across the UK. The company caters to more than 1,000,000 meals a week. Our "Fresh Food Policy" is the foundation of our success and growth in the market coupled with a desire to truly deliver on the promises we make to our clients and support our site‑based teams.