Caterlink - Chef

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

Job summary

A leading catering service in Northampton is seeking a Chef to ensure that students receive nutritionally balanced and tasty meals. The ideal candidate will organize and control food preparation, ensuring meals meet quality standards, while maintaining excellent customer service and food safety protocols. This role includes menu production and stock management, with a focus on professional development and work/life balance due to term-time only hours.

Benefits

Blended learning programs

Work/life balance

Employee discount platform

Employee assistance program

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Passionate about delivering quality meals and customer service.
• Experience in a kitchen environment preferred.
• Understands health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, and cook meals to the required standard.
• Ensure food quality, presentation, and service meet expectations.
• Manage stock count and ordering processes.

Skills

Food safety standards

Customer service

Organisational skills

Cooking skills

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 a 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 organise and control the operation and 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 personally plan, prepare and cook 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 producing the menus and managing the stock count / ordering processes, 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 Programand 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 Pensionscheme