Chef Manager

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd; Ealing; On-site; GBP 12,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading housing association is seeking a Chef Manager to provide high-quality catering services at Charles Clore Court. This role involves managing a small team and ensuring compliance with health standards while catering to residents' dietary needs. The ideal candidate will possess a catering qualification and strong leadership skills, contributing to a rewarding environment for our elderly residents. Flexible benefits and a supportive workplace culture await you.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays)

Up to 8% contributory pension

Flexible working

Investment in learning and development

Cycle to Work Scheme

Annual allowance for health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a Care and Support environment or cooking for large volumes.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
• Passion for leading a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver a first-class catering service for residents aged 55+.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety and Food Hygiene standards.
• Manage a small team and oversee kitchen operations.

Skills

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

Catering/Cooking Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Job title: Chef Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 16.5 hours Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Salary: £11,145.42 per annum
Location: Onsite at Charles Clore Court, Reading, Berkshire

About A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homespeople love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, weprovide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent,specialist services, as well ashomesfor sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varyinglevels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, highquality and sustainable.

And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensurethat every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose –delivering more homes and better services for customers.

About the role
As the Chef Manager at Charles Clore Court, you will be responsible for leadingand delivering a first-class end to end Catering service to the scheme, whichaccounts 47 self-contained apartments for residents aged 55+.

Being both hands on with preparation and cooking to ownership of the ‘backoffice’ compliance, administration and audits, this rewarding opportunity willbe working with a fun, dedicated team of 4 colleagues consisting of a KitchenAssistant, Restaurant Service Assistant, Weekend Cook/Chef and Weekend KitchenAssistant, to deliver excellence for our residents.

Key Responsibilities:
- Preparation, cooking and serving of meals, meeting Company and EnvironmentalHealth Standards. Taking responsibility for particular dietary and culturalneeds, cooking specific meals as per the resident food profile so thatresident’s preferences are met
- Complete all menu tick sheets, cleaning records and handover sheets daily,recording meals sold and reporting resident feedback to Catering Manager
- Issuing of resident catering invoices, responding to resident and queriesregarding payments and accrued arrears
- Carry out Health & Safety & Food Hygiene standards checks as directedby A2Dominion catering standards and that all practices meet the statutoryregulations, including the Registered Homes Act 1984, and A2Dominions Health& Safety policy
- Take responsibility for preparing and responding to inspections and audits byexternal authorities and other bodies and fulfilling reporting requirements
- Lead and support a small, fun dedicated team of colleagues, allocating dutiesand checking work is completed in timely manner. Taking responsibility formanaging their recruitment, probation, development, absence, staff behavioursand employment lifecycle
- Ownership of ordering, stock control, deliveries, agency workers time keepingand maintain the standards set by the Catering Manager

More about you
We want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part inimproving people’s lives:
- Ideally you will have a Catering/Cooking qualification and/or experienceworking in a Care and Support environment, or cooking experience for largevolumes of people
- Excellent time management and organisational skills in running a smooth,effective catering service for our residents
- Have a passion for leading a team, whether you have prior experience orlooking to take the next step in your career.
- Comfortable in taking ownership of the 'back office' administration anddocumentation using basic Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, Teams, Outlook)
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
- Able to commute to the housing scheme in Tilehurst, Berkshire,RG30 3NT

Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevantexperience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice offlexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts thatwork for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 yearsof service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annualallowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for bothyou and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cyclingequipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that weare committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attractand recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessiblerecruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet theminimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabledapplicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job,make reasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promoteequality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit theperson who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people ofall backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations,nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, pleasecontact our Resourcing Team to request: [e-mail]

Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% ofrole requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you toapply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discussyour application further at [e-mail]

A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, andinclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our peopleand seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find outwhy our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recoveryjourney, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. Ifyou possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery andchange initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Closing date for this role is Friday 30th May 2025, we reserve theright to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.