Regional Support Chef

Beaumont Care Homes; Bangor; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Beaumont Care Homes seeks a Regional Support Chef to cover multi-site operations across Northern Ireland. You will provide strategic and hands-on culinary support, ensuring nutritious, safe, and person-centred dining for residents.

You will work with the Operations Team, Home Managers, Head Chefs, Dietitians, and clinical colleagues to promote catering excellence, budget control, supplier management, and regulatory compliance, including dysphagia and IDDSI standards.

Qualifications

• Chef qualification required.
• 2 years' relevant experience as a Chef or Cook.
• Food Hygiene Certificate.
• HACCP documentation knowledge or certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide catering quality and operational support to all Beaumont homes.
• Promote consistency of food quality, presentation, and dining across the Group.
• Undertake regular kitchen quality reviews and audits.
• Support menu planning, seasonal menu implementation, and themed dining events.
• Monitor food expenditure and analyse costs to improve financial performance.
• Assist with food waste reduction through planning, portion control, stock rotation, and ordering practices.
• Lead dysphagia management and IDDSI compliance.

Skills

Culinary skills

Menu planning

Tools

HACCP documentation

Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Regional Support Chef

Multi site position across Northern Ireland - Own Car essential

Hours

Full Time, 40 hours per week (flexibility required to meet operational needs and travel between homes)

Purpose of the Role

The Regional Support Chef will provide strategic and operational support to catering teams across the Beaumont Group, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, nutritious, safe, and person-centred dining experiences for residents.

The post holder will work closely with The Operations Team, Home Managers, Head Chefs, Kitchen Teams, Dietitians, and clinical colleagues to promote excellence in food service delivery, nutritional standards, budgetary control, supplier management, and regulatory compliance. They will act as the Group's lead resource for dysphagia management and IDDSI compliance, ensuring residents with modified dietary requirements receive meals that are safe, nutritious, appealing, and dignified.

Whilst the primary purpose of the role is support, development, and quality assurance, the post holder may be required to provide temporary hands-on kitchen support in exceptional circumstances to ensure continuity of service.

About the role

Catering Quality and Operational Support

• Support catering teams across all homes to deliver high-quality, nutritious, and appealing meals that meet residents' individual needs and preferences.

• Promote consistency of food quality, presentation, and dining experiences across the Group.

• Undertake regular kitchen quality reviews and audits, identifying areas for improvement and supporting implementation of agreed actions.

• Work alongside Home Managers and Chef teams to embed catering best practice.

• Support menu planning, menu reviews, seasonal menu implementation, and themed dining events.

• Monitor food expenditure across all homes to ensure budgets are effectively managed.

• Analyse food costs, purchasing patterns, and stock usage, identifying opportunities to improve financial performance.

• Work collaboratively with Home Managers and kitchen teams where food budgets exceed agreed targets.

• Support the reduction of food waste through effective planning, portion control, stock rotation, and ordering practices.

• Identify opportunities for standardisation of products and processes that deliver efficiencies without compromising quality.

About the company

Philosophy of Care - At Beaumont, we aim to provide a safe, clean, relaxed and homely environment in which care, wellbeing and comfort are of prime importance.

Required Criteria

• Chef Qualification
• 2 years relevant experience as a Chef or Cook
• Food Hygiene Certificate
• HACCP Documentation

Desired Criteria

• Nutrition Science for the elderly or equivalent
• Own car

Skills you'll need