At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to create delicious, nutritious meals for residents with diverse dietary needs.
- Company: Join Exemplar Health Care, a leader in nursing care for adults with complex needs.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible hours, and great perks like discounts and counselling support.
- Other info: Access to training and career growth opportunities in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives through your passion for cooking and teamwork.
- Qualifications: Experience in catering management and a flair for creative menu development.
The predicted salary is between 14.8 - 14.8 £ per hour.
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Care home: Lakeview
Location: Leigh, Wigan
Contract type: 40 hours per week
Rate: £14.80 per hour
Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Lakeview care home in Wigan. As Catering Manager, you'll lead our Catering Team in providing healthy and inviting meals for the people we support. This is an exciting opportunity to use your cooking skills to make a real difference every day.
About Exemplar Health Care: Lakeview is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities including Huntington's disease, and physical disabilities. As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.
About the role: Our Catering Managers cook delicious and nourishing meals for people with a range of dietary requirements. No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- managing the day-to-day running of the kitchen
- preparing, cooking and serving food
- understanding people's needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menus
- ensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standards
- completing relevant checks and maintaining records
- controlling stock and purchases within an allocated budget
- leading and managing your Catering Team members, ensuring they receive induction, training and support as required.
You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you'll see great rewards. If you haven't worked in the care sector before, we'll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.
About you: Above all, you're someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You're also:
- a cook with a flair for creating delicious and nutritious meals for varied dietary requirements
- creative in menu development and food preparation
- an excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a team
- experienced in managing a catering budget
- adaptable and flexible
- someone with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
We like our Catering Managers to have, or be working towards, a Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification. As this is a management position, we expect you'll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.
What we offer: We offer great rewards and perks including:
- excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- access to wages before payday
- retail and lifestyle reward discounts
- free DBS check
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply: Sound good? We'd love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW. Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We're unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation.
Locations
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