Caterlink - Assistant Chef

BaxterStorey; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A catering company in Folkestone seeks an Assistant Chef. The role involves planning and preparing nutritious meals for students, ensuring food quality and safety, and supporting kitchen teams. Ideal candidates will have strong organization and cooking skills and a passion for customer service. The position offers a great work/life balance with term-time only hours and no weekends.

Benefits

Blended learning program including Apprenticeships

Employee Discount Platform

Employee Assistance Program

Pension scheme eligibility

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering nutritious, tasty food.
• Experience in planning and preparing meals to high standards.
• Understanding of food safety and health procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assist with planning, preparing, and cooking meals.
• Ensure food quality and presentation meet standards.
• Brief kitchen teams on menus and service.

Skills

Organizational skills

Cooking skills

Customer service

Food safety knowledge

Job description

Company Description

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 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.

Job Description

We are looking for an Assistant Chef who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. We are looking for an organised, hard‑working and passionate individual to ensure that the food quality, presentation and service are provided to the required standard. You should be passionate about delivering an efficient service to our students whilst ensuring we maintain great customer service and high food safety standards.

You will assist with all planning, preparing and cooking of meals to the required standard and you will ensure that the company’s reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers. Other tasks will include briefing kitchen teams on menus and service, ensuring all food safety and health and safety procedures are applied continuously and carry out company bookwork.

Caterlink is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role.

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.

Additional Information

There are many advantages to working for us including :

• With Caterlink you have the opportunity to a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications including Apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning and on the job training to support and encourage your development and enable you to be the best you can be. Everyone who joins us is provided with an induction where they learn more about us and enable them to be the best they can be. We invest in development opportunities and are always looking to recruit, train and retain the best people for our own future talent and your own future development.
• Working for Caterlink ensure you are able to enjoy a great work / life balance – this is the beauty of working term‑time only and no weekends!
• We offer you access to our Employee Discount Platform where you can make great savings at supermarkets, cinema, restaurants as well as holiday discounts, family days out and many more!
• Our Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time.
• You may be eligible to join our Pension scheme.