Support Chef Manager - Slough, Hayes and M4 Corridor

Compass Group; Smeatharpe; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company is seeking a Support Chef Manager in Smeatharpe to help deliver exceptional food experiences to children. With a salary of up to £37,000, the role includes managing kitchen operations in schools, ensuring high standards of hygiene, and providing training to staff. The position offers excellent work-life balance due to a term-time only contract, alongside opportunities for training and development.

Benefits

Mileage/travel allowance

NEST pension scheme

Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme

Consistent training and development

Qualifications

• Strong customer service and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in managing and motivating a team.
• Ability to handle menu planning, food costing, and stock control.

Responsibilities

• Support training and operations at onsite teams.
• Produce food for service from fresh ingredients following brand standards.
• Ensure compliance with health and hygiene regulations.
• Manage menu planning and stock control.

Skills

Passionate about food and customer service

Excellent communication skills

Supervisory skills

Financially astute

Education

Craft background with qualifications/experience

Job description

Pabulum Catering

Are now recruiting for a Support Chef Manager covering Slough, Hayes and the M4 Corridor to help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children.

As a Support Chef, 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. We are now seeking a talented Support Chef to join our fantastic team!

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working together with our onsite teams to provide support and training
• Supporting our portfolio of schools to maintain the smooth running of the kitchen
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch, and following the company’s brand standards
• To comply with all Company policies and regulations in respect of health, safety, and environmental management at work and to ensure the highest standards of kitchen practice and hygiene
• Take responsibility for menu planning, production levels, food costing, ordering and stock control, as appropriate.

Our ideal Support Chef 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 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:

• We are offering a salary of up to £37,000 per annum.
• Mileage/travel allowance
• Monday – Friday 40 hours a week
• Excellent work/life balance due to term time only contract
• NEST pension scheme
• Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme
• Consistent training and development

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 front 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 Support Chef 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?