Chef Manager - Park Walk Primary School

Compass Group UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A catering company focused on children's food is seeking a Chef Manager to provide exceptional dining experiences at Park Walk Primary School. Responsibilities include managing kitchen operations, food preparation, and team supervision. Candidates should be passionate about food and have excellent communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary of £22,000 per annum with a strong emphasis on work-life balance and support for professional development.

Benefits

Holiday pay

NEST pension scheme

Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Consistent training and development

Discount membership perks at work

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a kitchen environment.
• Ability to work well in a team.
• Training in health and safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Prepare delicious food for the school.
• Manage kitchen operations including health & safety.
• Build relationships with clients and customers.

Skills

Passion for food and customer service

Excellent communication skills

Supervisory skills

Financial acumen

Craft background and qualifications

Job description

Overview

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager to help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at Park Walk Primary School.

The school has a lovely team in a well cared for environment. 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 hardworking 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• With a reputation for 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 great working relationships with clients, team, and customers, you will be able 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 real key to managing, developing, and motivating a large team.
• You will need to be financially astute, but don’t worry, we will 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

• £22,000 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 Assistance Programme
• Consistent training and development
• Perks at Work – discount membership

Three basic ingredients for your role

• The food – Here at Pabulum, we take our values seriously, putting Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation at the forefront. 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 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?

Please apply online.

Job Reference: com/2210/47854001/52770582/BU #Pabulum

CH&CO, a part of Compass Group UK&I, 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. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!