Job Description

Position

: Catering Manager

Care home

: Woolston House

Location

: Woolston, Warrington

Contract type

: 40 hours per week, Weekends Required

Rate

: 14.43 per hour

Are you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Woolston House care home in Warrington.

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 join a brand new team, in a state of the art, purpose built kitchen. You'll have the chance to really make your mark.

About Exemplar Health Care

Woolston House is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers.


We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities including brain injuries and strokes, Huntington's disease and Parkinson'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.

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.


Download our job description to read more: https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1030505883/

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'.


For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod3@exemplarhc.com.


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.