Job Overview
We are hiring for a Chef Manager at St Andrew's CofE Primary School, Soham, who wants to ensure our future generations are provided with nutritionally balanced and tasty food. This role is working term‑time only and no weekends so is great for those looking for flexibility.
Key Details
- £14 per hour
- 30 hours per week (Monday–Friday)
- Term‑time only – 38 weeks per year
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare, cook and present food to the standards required by Caterlink and the client.
- Ensure that the location meets statutory and company requirements of Health and Safety, Food Safety and environmental legislations and procedures.
- Enhance the company’s reputation for excellent food and service with the client and customers, consistently exceeding expectations.
- Be responsible for day‑to‑day running of the location and supervise teams, including managing inventories, monitoring budgets and implementing action plans.
- Act as the main point of contact for our client in your school, ensuring that regular adjustments and improvements are both recommended and implemented.
- Communicate regularly with your line manager to monitor KPIs and financial targets and ensure they are achieved.
- Support and train teams, leading from the front to ensure everyone can excel in their role by completing all training and managing performance.
Company Overview
Caterlink is the education sector catering specialist. For over 20 years, the company has delivered fresh food solutions to pupils and staff at primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across the UK. The company caters more than 1,000,000 meals a week. Our “Fresh Food Policy” is the foundation of our success and growth in the market, coupled with a desire to truly deliver on the promises we make to our clients and support our site‑based teams.
Benefits and Development Opportunities
- Caterlink strives to always provide a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all our teams, where every individual is treated with respect, integrity and given the opportunity to grow and be treated equally and fairly at all times.
- You have the opportunity for a blended learning programme that can include formal qualifications such as apprenticeships, classroom training, eLearning and on‑the‑job training to support and encourage your development.
- We offer access to our Employee Discount Platform, enabling great savings at supermarkets, cinemas, restaurants and for holidays, family days out, and many more.
- Full access to our Wellbeing Services, including the Employee Assistance Program and Virtual GP benefits, free of charge for you and your family at any time.
- Eligibility to join our Pension scheme.
