Catering Technician

Vale View Heights Care Home; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Enhanced overtime pay

DBS clearance

Job summary

Vale View Heights Care Home in the United Kingdom is seeking a Catering Technician to lead the kitchen, planning menus that meet residents' nutritional and personal preferences. You will supervise staff, ensure a restaurant-like dining experience, and uphold top food safety and hygiene standards.

The role offers opportunities for career development with enhanced pay for overtime and bank holidays, DBS clearance, and a comprehensive induction to support success in a busy care home environment.

Qualifications

• Must have Food Safety Level 3 or willingness to complete.
• Experience in hospitality or care home catering preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of portion control and dietary needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the kitchen team to prepare and serve meals for residents.
• Design varied menus reflecting residents tastes and nutritional needs.
• Maintain high standards of food safety, hygiene and cleanliness.
• Manage stock, orders and budget within department.
• Support and train kitchen staff to ensure quality service.

Skills

Food safety

Team leadership

Menu design

Education

Food Safety Certification

Job description

Are you passionate about great food and creating a homely dining experience? We're looking for a Catering Technician to join our team and lead the kitchen in delivering high-quality, nutritious meals for our residents.

What you’ll be doing:

• Preparing and serving delicious, well-presented meals, snacks, and baked treats.
• Working with residents to understand their preferences, dietary needs, and cultural or medical requirements.
• Ensuring mealtimes feel like a restaurant experience, with attention to detail in plating and service.
• Maintaining the highest standards of food safety, hygiene, and kitchen cleanliness.
• Managing stock, placing food orders, and keeping within budget.
• Supporting and mentoring colleagues involved in the meal service., Great opportunities for career development.
• Company pension.
• Enhanced pay for overtime and bank holidays.
• Comprehensive induction programme.
• Ongoing training and development.
• Free Chef's Whites and DBS.

How You’ll Make a Difference

• You’ll be responsible for our residents’ meal experience and running the nursing home’s kitchen. Leading and supporting a team, you will:
• Designing a varied menu that reflects our residents’ tastes and supports their nutritional needs.
• Ensuring mealtimes are always a high-quality experience.
• Maintaining the highest food standards.
• Supporting, training and directing the kitchen team
• Mentoring and motivating on quality, safety, hygiene and cleanliness standards.
• Assisting the General Manager in developing and managing the budgetary, human and material resources within the department.

• Experienced in food preparation and passionate about quality.
• Knowledge of dietary requirements and willingness to adapt meals for individual needs.
• Food Safety Level 3 (or willingness to complete).
• Organised, proactive, and a great team player.
• Committed to providing a warm, welcoming environment for residents.
• We’d like someone who is flexible, who can work alternate weekends.
• An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents' wellbeing at their hearts. Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.