Caterlink - Chef Manager

Wsh Group; Maidstone; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is hiring a Chef Manager for Tiger Primary School in Maidstone. This role focuses on preparing healthy meals, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and leading the kitchen team, all while enjoying a term-time only schedule for greater work-life balance.

Benefits

Blended learning programme including formal qualifications

Access to Employee Discount Platform

Wellbeing Services including Employee Assistance Program

Pension scheme eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in food service management or culinary arts is required.
• Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations in food preparation.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and present food for approximately 270 meals per day.
• Ensure adherence to health and safety standards.
• Manage daily operations and supervise staff.

Job description

We are hiring for a Chef Manager at Tiger Primary SchoolMaidstonewho wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. This role is working termtime only and no weekends so is great for those looking for flexibility.

The role:

• 15.00per hour
• 37.5hours per week working Monday Friday (hours vary daily but between 6.30am and 3pm)
• Termtime only plus 2 weeks nursery cover in the summer (additional pay)

Your key responsibilities will include:

• To prepare cook and present food to the standards required by Caterlink and the client approx 270 meals per day
• 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 companys reputation for excellent food and service is enhanced with the client and customers and expectations are consistently exceeded
• To be responsible for the daytoday 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
• Supervise and support Glebe Primary School Chef Manager

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. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be obtained for this role.

Additional Information :

There are many advantages to working for us including:

• You have the opportunity of 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
• 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!
• You will have full access to our Wellbeing Services including the Employee Assistance Programand Virtual GP benefits which are there for you and your family to use free of charge at any time
• You may be eligible to join our Pensionscheme

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

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