Catering Manager

Position: Catering Manager.
Care home: Springfield Vale.
Location: Perserverence Street, Barnsley, S70 6HD
. Contract type: Full-time, 40 hours per week.
Rate: £13.27 per hour.

Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Springfield Vale care home in Barnsley. As our Catering Manager, you ll have the creative freedom to design and make healthy and inviting meals for the people we support within our brand new purpose-built kitchen. You ll lead the Catering Team to develop exciting menus and have the unique opportunity to help shape the teams culture from the start.

Springfield Vale is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the countrys leading nursing care providers for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. When open, Springfield Vale will provide nursing care for adults living with complex needs arising from dementia. As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

• 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

If you havent worked in the care sector before, well help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.

Download our job description to read more:

Above all, youre someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Youre 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 youll have previous experience in a similar position and environment, ideally in leading a catering or kitchen team.

• 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.

Sound good? Wed love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW.

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. Were unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.