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Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager (Maternity Cover) help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at Hook Infant & Junior Schools.

The school has a lovely team in a real 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.

• Preparing our delicious food
• Managing the main aspects of the kitchensincludingincluding 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 relationship with clients, team, and customers, you will be able to ensure that the catering contract is always growing in the right direction.

• 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.

• £32,000 per annum
• Monday to Friday - 40 hours a week
• Excellent work/life balance due toterm time onlycontract
• 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

• The food- Here at Pabulum, we take our values so seriously that we put Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation 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 Catering Assistant 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).

Please apply online.

Job Reference: com/1811/42335001/52776135/BU #Pabulum

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