Role – Catering Manager
Environment: Primary School – 450 pupils
Hours: 30
Weeks: 38
Basic Rate: £14.50
Free On-site parking
The Role : Our client is a market leading contract catering company specialising in school food. By combining their understanding of the education sector and their knowledge of what’s on trend in the food world, they encourage creativity and excitement in their kitchens, allowing the teams to do what they do best and provide fantastic food experiences for the children.
Catering Manager Responsibilities:
1. Providing a full catering service to the children and staff
2. Managing a team
3. Controlling a budget and achieving sales targets and food cost percentage
4. Ensuring all food hygiene and health and safety regulations are adhered to at all times
5. Adhere to existing and new working practices, methods, procedures and respond positively to new and alternative systems
6. Following safeguarding policies
7. Ordering products via the online portal
8. Completing relevant unit required paperwork
9. Inducting & training new staff
10. Participate in training and development
11. Perform other related duties as required to meet the on-going needs of the organisation.
12. May also be required to cover other sites within a reasonable distance
Ideal Qualities :
13. Previous contract catering experience is preffered
14. Excellent client liaison / relationship building skills are vital to this role.
15. Must have excellent cooking skills in both presentation and taste.
16. You will also be IT proficient.
· A welcoming and caring attitude
· A desire to be creative and developing new ideas to keep the children excited about food
· Ability to successfully manage a team
· Ability to promote a welcoming environment to our customers
· Neat and tidy in appearance
· A ‘can do’ attitude, prepared to assist the rest of the team
It will be necessary for the company to apply for a DBS check for school sites
If this role could work for you, apply now !
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