Household Catering Lead

Belong Limited; Warrington; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Belong Limited is seeking a catering professional to develop recipes and lead dietary compliant meals for residents at the village, reporting to the Bistro and Catering Manager. You will ensure meals are wholesome, nutritious, flavoursome and appetising, while maintaining health and safety standards.

You will also train and support the household teams, ensuring HACCP records are kept up to date and malnutrition prevention aligns with best practice guidelines. DBS check required.

Qualifications

• You will have a passion for food, creativity drive and commitment to deliver high standards.
• Be able to train and develop, encourage and support your team.
• Follow all Health and Safety guidelines to ensure your department is well led and safe.
• Level 2/3 Catering qualifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health, safety and food hygiene procedures for the households catering are followed.
• Complete all HACCP records for the household catering service.
• Prevent malnutrition and dehydration by following best practice guidelines and dietician advice.
• Monitor service standards throughout the household kitchens to ensure quality.
• Knowledge of SALT and dysphasia is essential.

Skills

Passion for food

Team training

Health & safety

SALT knowledge

Education

Level 2/3 Catering qualifications

Job description

Job description

About the Role

This role is where it all starts, you will be reporting to and working with the Bistro and Catering Manager (BCM) developing recipes within the Village to meet the dietary requirements of all our residents.

Delivering high quality meals is essential to our residents as this could be one of their highlights of their day. You will need to ensure that all meals are wholesome, nutritional, flavoursome and appetising to encourage our residents to enjoy their homecooked meals, along with;

• Ensure health, safety and food hygiene procedures for the households catering are followed in line with environmental health and H&S regulations and in accordance with Belong policies and procedures
• Ensure all household HACCP records are completed
• Ensure the household catering service prevents malnutrition and dehydration following and advising on best practice guidelines accordingly and dietician advice
• Monitor service standards throughout the household kitchens ensuring quality
• Knowledge of SALT and dysphasia is essential.

About you.

You will have a passion for food, creativity drive and commitment to deliver the high standards, be able to train and develop, encourage and support your team. Follow all the Health and Safely guide lines to ensure your department is well led, and safe. Level 2/3 Catering qualifications are desirable.

If you have catering experience and are looking for that next step in your career then we would love to hear from you.

Salary £14.45 per hour

30 Hours per week

Days and every other weekend

We welcome applications from eligible applicants; it is with regret that we do not have the facility to sponsor overseas staff.

As part of our recruitment process you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check. Their code of conduct can be found on the following link that you can copy and post to your web browser if you wish to read:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice