Chef Manager based at St Bede's Inter Church School

Pabulum; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company is seeking a Chef Manager for St Bede's Inter Church School in Cambridge. This role involves not only managing kitchen operations but also ensuring an exceptional dining experience for students, emphasizing fresh, locally sourced ingredients. With excellent benefits, including term-time work and a supportive culture, this is a great opportunity for a passionate culinary professional.

Benefits

Holiday pay

Consistent training and development

Unlock – discount membership

Qualifications

• Chef Manager must have a craft background with relevant qualifications/experience.
• Good communication skills are essential for team and customer interaction.
• Financial astuteness is required but training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Manage kitchen operations including Health & Safety and Training.
• Receive and manage food deliveries and storage.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and customers.

Skills

Passion for food

Customer service

Communication

Supervisory skills

Financial aptitude

Education

Culinary qualifications or equivalent experience

Job description

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Chef Manager based at St Bede's Inter Church School, Cambridge

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager to help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at St Bede’s Inter Church School.

As a Chef Manager, you will be working in a passionate and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for our school.

In return we offer an excellent work life balance, support and a fantastic company culture for a business committed to providing healthy food to children. At Pabulum, you’re important; without our employees we wouldn’t be where we are today with such a strong, innovative, and constantly growing business.

With over 120 sites across Southern England there’s plenty of opportunity for you to grow, learn and develop.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the main aspects of the kitchensincludingincluding Health & Safety and Training & Development, and you'll have the Unit Bookwork to keep up to date
• Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage
• With a reputation for an excellent service and fabulous food we always put our customers first, as one of our Unit Managers we expect you want to do the same. By developing a great working relationship with clients, team and customers alike you will be able to ensure the catering contract you are part of is always growing in the right direction.

Our ideal Chef Manager will be:

• Passionate about food and great customer service
• A fantastic communicator who works well as part of a team. Good communication skills throughout our customer and client journey are a must, with excellent supervisory skills being the real key to managing, developing and motivating a large team
• You will need to be financially astute, but we'll make sure you receive full training in all our processes and software systems to help you.
• A craft background with qualifications/experience to match

Role details and benefits include:

• £32,500 per annum
• Monday to Friday 7:00-15:00pm
• Excellent work/life balance due toterm time onlycontract
• Holiday pay
• Consistent training and development
• Unlock – discount membership
• Excellent work/ family life balance due toterm time onlycontract

At Pabulum there are three basic ingredients for your role;

• The food –Here at Pabulum, we take our values so seriously that we put Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation forefront of everything we do. 94% of our food is freshly prepared on site every day, using 75% British produce and little or no frozen or processed foods.
• The people - Happy customers always come back for more, so we expect you to ensure they have an excellent customer experience.
• And you – We are recruiting for a Chef Manager to join our positive and professional team.

As you will be working in Education, you must provide two employment/character references and we’ll also carry out an Enhanced DBS / Criminal Record Check as well (which we’ll pay for).

Interested in becoming part of the Pabulum family?