Chef Manager - New North Academy

Compass Group UK & Ireland; City Of London; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering service provider is looking for a Chef Manager to deliver exceptional food experiences at New North Academy in the City of London. You'll manage kitchen operations, ensure health and safety compliance, and work closely with the school to provide great service. Ideal candidates have a craft background and possess strong communication and supervisory skills. This role offers a competitive salary with excellent work-life balance due to a term-time only contract.

Benefits

Holiday pay

NEST pension scheme

Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme

Discount membership

Consistent training and development

Qualifications

• Experience in managing kitchens including Health & Safety.
• Ability to manage food deliveries and storage.
• Experience in developing working relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Prepare delicious food for children.
• Manage kitchen operations and staff training.
• Develop client relationships to enhance catering contracts.

Skills

Passionate about food and customer service

Excellent communication skills

Supervisory skills

Financially astute

Education

Craft background with qualifications/experience

Job description

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Job Introduction

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager to help deliver exceptional food experiences to children at New North Academy.

The school has a lovely team in a well cared for school. You will have a close relationship with the school, be responsible for a well-established kitchen, and be dedicated to providing the best for all children.

As a Chef Manager, you will be working within an enthusiastic and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for the 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:

• Preparing our delicious food
• Managing the main aspects of the kitchens, including Health & Safety and Training & Development. You will also have the unit bookwork to keep up to date.
• Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage.
• Developing great working relationships with clients, team, and customers to ensure that the catering contract 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
• Excellent communication skills throughout our customer and client journey are necessary.
• Excellent supervisory skills, being the key to managing, developing, and motivating a large team.
• You will need to be financially astute, but we will provide 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

• £27,188 per annum
• Monday to Friday - 35 hours a week
• Excellent work-life balance due to term time only contract
• Holiday pay
• NEST pension scheme
• Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme
• Consistent training and development
• Perks at Work - discount membership
• Excellent work/family life balance due to term time only contract

At Pabulum, there are three basic ingredients for your role:

• The food - We take our values so seriously that we put Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation at the 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 team member 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 (which we'll pay for).

Interested in becoming part of the Pabulum family?

Please apply online.

Pabulum is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members.