Catering manager

Position:Catering ManagerCare home: FairwindsLocation: Rotherham, S61 1AJContract type:37 hours per weekRate:£12.00phCare home CQC rating: OutstandingAre you an experienced Chef with a flair for creating delicious, nutritious menus? Join us as our new Catering Manager at Fairwinds care home in Rotherham.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 CareFairwinds 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.The home has two small units - one that's exclusively for people who identify as female.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 roleOur 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 kitchenpreparing, cooking and serving foodunderstanding people’s needs, likes and choices to develop suitable menusensuring your Catering Team complies with food hygiene standardscompleting relevant checks and maintaining recordscontrolling stock and purchases within an allocated budgetleading 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.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 preparationan excellent team player, able to coordinate, support and motivate a teamexperienced in managing a catering budgetadaptable and flexiblesomeone 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 offerWe offer great rewards and perks including:excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospectsaccess to wages before payday with fastP.A.Y.Eretail and lifestyle reward discountsfree DBS check24/7 counselling and supportBlue Light Card eligibility.How to applySound 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.“There are many career opportunities at Exemplar Health Care and the support that I’ve received has been amazing. Everyone at Exemplar Health Care is committed to not only our residents, but each other. I am proud to be part of the Exemplar family.”Whether it’s RCNi membership or NMC PIN payment for Nurses, or lifestyle and retail discounts for everyone, we’re always thinking about new ways of saying ‘thank you’ for being part of our team.Lifestyle and retail discounts- all colleagues can access great savings and monthly discounts on high street shops, restaurants, pubs and holidays, as well as 2-for-1 cinema tickets.Employee Assistance Programme- all colleagues can access 24/7 counselling and support through our wellbeing partner, Care First.Pension plan- after 3 months, you’ll be auto-enrolled into our pension scheme with NOW pensions, where you’ll have up to 5% of your earnings (depending on your salary) put into the pension and we’ll contribute an additional 3%.Paid DBS check- we’ll pay for all new starters to have a DBS check, so you don’t need to cover the cost.Referral bonus- if you recommend a friend for a care role with us, you’ll both receive £150, and you can refer as many people as you like.Career development opportunities- there are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and progress in your career at Exemplar Health Care, if you wish. Find out more.
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